GL Accountant

The GL Accountant position is responsible for general ledger accounting activities relative to the Company’s monthly oil and gas revenue, lease operating, and capital cost accruals.  Assist the operations group with analysis of actual spend compared to budget.

Duties and job responsibilities:

• Prepare and/or assist with monthly oil and gas revenue accrual
• Prepare and/or assist with monthly lease operating accruals
• Prepare and/or assist with monthly capital expenditure accruals
• Coordinate with operations group on spend levels and necessary accruals
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations for accrual accounts during the monthly close process
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations for payroll liability accounts
• Prepare reconciliations of spend against budgeted amounts
• Prepare monthly journal entries to properly record the accruals by asset area
• Ensure supporting documentation is adequately retained for journal entries recorded, including properly linked to journal entry in Enertia accounting system.
• Respond to audit requests for supporting documentation
• Prepare internal control documentation associated with the aforementioned job responsibilities and support accounting department internal control testing
• Identify process inefficiencies and suggest potential solutions

•    Special projects as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from accredited college or university required
• Minimum of 5 years in a similar role with an oil and gas exploration and production company
• Public accounting experience a plus
• Prior experience working with lease operating schedules
• Experience with Enertia software strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel at an intermediate level (use financial and logical functions; work with multiple worksheets and workbooks; import and export information; creating and manipulate pivot tables, etc.
• Proactive and diligent with the ability to take ownership of assigned projects

Benefits

• Premiums for health, dental, and vision insurance for employee and children are 100% paid for by Aethon and premiums for spouse are 75% covered.
• 401k match 100% up to 7% of annual base salary.
• Company paid life insurance.
• Health Advocate to assist navigating your medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Company provided Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Ability to work from home every Monday and Friday.
• 11 paid holidays annually.
• Paid Time Off Six (6) weeks annually or 240 hours.
• Casual dress code.
• Unlimited access to workout facilities within the building.
• Wellness program with earned incentives for completed activities

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Employees must be willing and able to perform other duties as assigned.  Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to acknowledge every applicant.

Aethon does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.  In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request, Aethon reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

Aethon is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to the principles of being an equal opportunity employer and to providing our employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.