Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

Join a team that values accuracy, expertise, and collaboration. Help ensure the financial strength and transparency of Great River Energy (GRE) through high-quality reporting and analysis.

We are seeking an experienced accounting professional to lead the financial reporting process at GRE, ensuring accurate, timely, and GAAP-compliant internal and external financial statements. Apply accounting expertise to analyze financial information, support external audits, and maintain accounting policies and standards. Monitor new accounting pronouncements, conduct technical research, and drive process improvements to implement updated standards. Provide financial analysis to support budgeting, long-range forecasting, margin planning, and other strategic initiatives.

The ideal candidate will possess the following :

• Knowledge of and proven ability to interpret and apply GAAP, using FERC and / or RUS accounting principles as a guide.
• Knowledge of energy market rules and practices and their financial implications.
• Knowledge of budgeting, cost estimating, and financial analysis techniques.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Access, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience with Infor, Itron, and Cognos reporting tools is helpful.
• Skilled in preparing complex spreadsheets, including macros, advanced formulas, calculations, and reports.
• Skilled in using relational databases : creating tables, joins, ad-hoc reports, and data mining functions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to research issues and interpret complex information.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise, and accurate technical documentation, including memos and Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs).
• Ability to interpret complex contract language and translate it into accurate accounting and reporting processes.

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, walk and stand; talk both in person and by telephone; use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds. Vision abilities include close and distant focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. May on occasion be exposed to loud sounds and distracting noise levels. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.