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As a Senior Accountant with Scout Clean Energy, you will play an integral role in building a tightly knit and highly productive team. You will engage directly in every facet of a wind & solar developer and operator’s accounting, ranging from day-to-day transactions, to month-end financials closing for a multi-entity company. You will be responsible for accurately completing a variety of accounting tasks on firm timelines, assuring the company’s ability to continue to support growth and meet our commitments to our staff, investors, communities, and business partners.
Throughout the day, you will interface with the Accounting team members as well as other departments to complete the required tasks at hand. The Senior Accountant reports directly to Scout’s Assistant Controller.
The ideal candidate will seek to master the tasks initially assigned to them while maintaining a growth mindset, stepping in to support others on the team with new responsibilities as they emerge. To start, the Senior Accountant will have the following responsibilities:
- AP and AR reconciliations
- Bank reconciliations
- Revenue accruals
- Closing adjusting, accrual, and depreciation entries
- Job cost reconciliations
- Intercompany accounting reconciliations
- Equity roll forward reconciliations
- Preparation and reconciliation of supporting schedules
The successful candidate’s passion for renewable and clean energy will create a real connection to our work and to our broader team. Our new Senior Accountant will understand the service-oriented nature of this position and will bring the maturity needed to interact with many personality types and competing priorities. We seek someone with a desire to continuously improve and to support the development of processes that drive our team’s efficiency.
Work Experience and Skillset:
Organizational fit:
Characteristics of Successful Scout Team Members
Integrity. Ethical professional who does the right thing even when it is difficult.
Initiative. Resourceful self-motivator with exceptional leadership and organizational skills.
Intelligence. Perpetual learner with the ability to solve problems and make informed decisions quickly.
Work Ethic. Productive team member who desires to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment to meet deadlines and get things done.
Team Focus. Purpose-driven colleague with strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to working across organizational boundaries to deliver on shared team goals.
Invitation to Diverse Candidates
Scout seeks to develop a diverse and inclusive team of professionals. We encourage applications from all demographics and especially those that are traditionally under-represented in the energy industry.
Invitation to Veterans
Scout welcomes veterans of the United States Armed Forces to apply for this position. Scout includes veterans of all branches and a diverse set of occupational specialties. We value the independent thinking, problem solving, leadership, and teamwork that our veterans have developed through their service. We welcome applications from any service and any military occupational specialty.
Timeline and Location
This position will begin as soon as possible, preferably In mid-December 2023 to early January 2024.
We will review resumes for this role on an ongoing basis with a start date as soon as possible.
Our ideal candidate is located in Boulder, or would be willing to relocate to Boulder in order to be able to commute to our Boulder office on a hybrid schedule (3 days in office/week).
Target base salary: $90,000 - $100,000 (Negotiable for the right candidate)
Attractice bonus potential.
Full Time
Utilities
$81k-99k (estimate)
12/04/2022
02/07/2024
scoutcleanenergy.com
BOULDER, CO
50 - 100
2016
MICHAEL RUCKER
$5M - $10M
Utilities
Scout Clean Energy is a leading U.S. renewable energy developer, owner and operator headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Scout is developing a portfolio of over 3,000 MW of wind, solar and energy storage projects across 9 U.S. states. Scout is an owner-operator with expertise in all aspects of renewable power project development, permitting, power marketing, finance, construction and asset management. Scout is a portfolio company of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners. Scout is made up of wind energy industry veterans who are making a difference in our world. Our teams work ethic is second to non...e. We identify problems, create solutions, and deliver them professionally to our customers, stakeholders, partners and one another. We do the right thing when no one is looking because we are committed to our collective success and because we believe that our uncompromising integrity is key to the collaborative relationships that drive our business.
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