Senior Accountant

Note: Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus or commissions.

CPower is a leading Virtual Power Plant platform, monetizing the value of customer-sited energy to intelligently strengthen the grid. For over a decade, we’ve made turning flexible energy into revenue simple for partners and large energy users such as businesses, manufacturers, public institutions and healthcare organizations, delivering over $1.2 billion from demand response and energy flexibility programs to customers since 2015. With 6.7 GW of customer capacity nearly 23,000 sites, we’re empowering energy users across North America, enabling them to benefit from an innovative energy economy.

We are looking for a Senior Accountant who will continue the thriving demand response programs and help CPower maintain its role as a leader in the energy management industry.

This is a hybrid position with the employee working remotely and at our office in Baltimore, MD.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support accounts payable process, including invoice approval, batch review and posting.
• Monitor treasury, positive pay exceptions and coordinate and resolve issues that may arise with the bank.
• Maintain control of check stock and ACH initiation to process third party vendor and customer payments.
• Prepare and/or review asset, liability, revenue, and expense journal entries and related reconciliations.
• Ensure accurate reporting of operating expenses by verifying and reconciling transactions, resolving discrepancies, and identifying variance drivers from budget and/or prior forecast.
• Lead operating expense review sessions and develop related forecasts.
• Contribute to the month-end financial close in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Prepare high quality, accurate, and timely reporting packages.
• Fulfill ad hoc requests and provide input on projects, timely and accurately respond to inquiries.
• Contribute to annual financial audit and budget processes.
• Maintain ethical and professional business practices in day-to-day activities.
• Exhibit flexibility, professionalism, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting.
• Minimum of 3 years of related experience.
• CPA preferred.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Strong decision making, flexibility, diplomacy, and problem-solving skills.
• High level of competency with Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers at all levels of an organization.
• Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and understanding of accounting theory, principles, practices and regulations.
• Proven ability to effectively manage workload including multiple deadlines and deliverables.
• Experience with Microsoft Great Plains ERP system and OneStream preferred.
• All applicants must be able to provide documentation that they are legally eligible to work in the United States for an extended period, and will not now, nor in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status to work legally for our Company in the United States.

Benefits

Unique opportunity to work at a successful, growing company with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We focus heavily on developing our employees and linking successes to our core values. CPower offers a great benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401K, vacation, up to $10,000 per calendar year in tuition reimbursement, etc. CPower’s leadership prides itself on maintaining a rewarding culture, and always striving to offer a great team-member experience.

CPower is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our team members is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.