What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Accountant position at CFS?
Compensation: $90,000 – $115,000 base bonus
Why Consider This Lead Accountant Role
Why Consider This Lead Accountant Role
- Growth Opportunity: Join a rapidly expanding energy company in the renewable natural gas, LNG, and CNG space.
- High-Impact Role: Play a key role in ensuring project profitability through accurate cost tracking and margin analysis.
- Operational Exposure: Partner closely with operations and project teams in a highly visible, cross-functional role.
- Systems Exposure: Gain hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Business Central in a growing environment.
- Process Improvement: Opportunity to help build and improve accounting processes and reporting procedures.
- Industry Growth: Be part of an organization in the fast-growing renewable and alternative energy sector.
- Strong Benefits: Competitive compensation, healthcare, retirement benefits, and PTO.
- Perform month-end close activities, including journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Track and allocate fuel, equipment, mileage, and labor costs accurately across projects.
- Ensure project and non-project costs are coded properly to support margin and overhead analysis.
- Process accruals related to fuel, freight, labor, and miscellaneous expenses.
- Partner with operations and project managers to support accurate financial reporting and project performance.
- Perform project margin analysis and bought vs. sold reviews. Support budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
- 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Experience in natural gas, energy, transportation, or project-based environments highly preferred.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Business Central strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of month-end close, reconciliations, and accrual accounting.
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, growing environment.
Salary : $90,000 - $110,000