Senior Accountant

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:

• Prepare multiple entities accounting financial statements. (Multi-entity accounting and consolidation experience preferred.)
• Perform intercompany accounting
• Perform as required the following during month-end closing process:

- 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

• Own your assigned entities’ financials, including posting AR and AP invoices
• Provide audit support
• Prepare and analyze financial statements
• Support the review and documentation of existing processes
• Willingness to actively participate in self-training and training others as necessary
• Review and assist in monthly sales and use tax filings for multiple states
• Assist with corporate tax filings process
• Ad hoc assignments and special projects as required.

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.

Requirements

Work Experience and Skillset:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• 3-5 years of experience in accounting, preferably in energy, construction, or real estate development.
• Experience with multiple entities accounting and consolidations, including intercompany accounting.
• Demonstrated experience with key software systems:
• Required: Working experience with accounting/ERP systems and Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft tools, especially Excel (e.g., VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables).
• GL and journal entry experience is required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including experience with writing, editing, or collaboration on operational procedures.
• High attention to detail, strong organizational and deadline-driven time management skills.
• Public accounting experience is a plus
• Optional: CPA license

Organizational fit:

• Successfully leveraging the expertise of multiple colleagues in different lines of reporting.
• Ability to multi-task and arbitrate between conflicting priorities with clear target setting and follow- through capability in a fast-paced work environment.
• Able to work proactively and productively in a collaborative team environment without direct supervision.
• Ability to maintain information confidentiality and handle with discretion.
• Authorized to work in the U.S. indefinitely without sponsorship.

Scout’s Values

• Mission-Orientation. High achievers who want to make a difference in this world and contribute to Scout’s stated mission.
• Teamwork. Respectful and appreciative colleagues with strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to fostering positive relationships across organizational boundaries to deliver on shared team goals.
• Safety. Uncompromising advocates for the health and safety of fellow employees, contractors, customers, and community members.

• Integrity. Ethical professionals who do the right thing even when it is difficult.
• Initiative. Resourceful self-motivators who thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment because of their exceptional leadership, work ethic, and organizational skills.
• Intelligence. Problem-solving learners who can make informed decisions quickly and create innovative and pragmatic solutions to challenging problems.

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 by late September to early October. 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).

Benefits

Target base salary: $90,000 - $100,000 (Negotiable for the right candidate)

Attractice bonus potential.