Staff Accountant
Location: Teaneck, NJ, United States
Location Type: On-site
Salary Range: 75000 - 90000 USD Annually
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POSITION DESCRIPTION:
EnFin is a financial services company that provides financing for residential solar PV customers. EnFin is looking for a Staff Accountant to perform the accounting roles related to the residential renewable energy business at EnFin. We are looking for someone who has experience with GAAP accounting, and potentially experience with accounting for residential solar assets, or with banking and financial services accounting. Experience with the construction of solar assets, ITC tax credits, ITC tax equity transactions, Joint Ventures, ABS structured sales, AFS Loan Assets, or Interest Rate Hedges are not pre-requisite but would be beneficial skills.
In this role you will also need a high level of attention to detail and strong interpersonal and organizational skills. Communicating with internal and external stakeholders is key, in addition to assisting with activities across multiple departments and functions to help drive our residential renewable finance business. ENFIN’s operations are growing rapidly, we expect to increase transactions, and add new business segments in the current year. New tasks, procedures, documentation, and accounting policies will need to be planned and executed. We are looking for someone who thrives in an ambiguous, fast paced environment, can use great judgement to make decisions and display empathy and resilience. In this role you will need to be creative and collaborative with problem solving skills and execute team-wide initiatives.
This position will be based out of one of our offices in Irvine, CA; San Francisco, CA; or Teaneck, NJ, with a potential in-office schedule set at the direct manager’s discretion in accordance with the company policies and procedures. Remote work may be considered for exceptional cases.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Perform processes for key deliverables and lead continuous improvement activities to achieve effective, efficient execution.
- Perform journal entries and documentation of supporting schedules, across all financial statement accounts, to ensure timely and complete monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closes, and help with support for annual financial statements.
- Optimize accounting processes by displaying proficiency with strong excel, and data manipulation skills. Show expertise with pivot tables, lookups, and power query to efficiency organize supporting data.
- Serve as a preparer on process creation and enhancement, including SOX and internal control matters, both internally and externally.
- Create journal entries and supporting schedules for general accounting and the advanced topics with which you have experience
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams (e.g., Operations, Capital Markets, Residential Solar, Financial Planning and Analysis) to build an understanding of the key processes within the organization’s operations.
- Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned to support the evolving needs of the department and organization.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or other business-related field with a minimum of 4+ years’ progressive accounting and/or finance experience and 3+ years’ experience performing journal entries, across all financial statement accounts, and maintaining the documentation of supporting schedules.
- Active CPA license
- Experience working with ERP systems and databases
- Knowledge of US GAAP and of financial systems, analysis methodologies and technical standards applicable to corporate accounting and finance.
- Strong excel, data sorting, and manipulation skills required, including mastery of pivot tables, lookups, and power query.
- Ability to execute in a dynamic team-oriented, fast-paced, and demanding environment under strict deadlines as well as influence across the company and interact at all levels.
- Excellent organizational, communication, problem-solving, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Accounting and data automation, including macros experience
- Knowledge of Residential Solar Assets accounting
- Knowledge of Joint Ventures, ITC Tax Credits and Tax Equity financing structures and appropriate accounting preferred
- Experience in the financial services or banking industries, including with ABS transactions, AFS Loan Assets, IR Hedges and related accounting preferred
- Big 4 and NetSuite experience preferred
Hanwha Q CELLS America Inc. (“HQCA”) is a Qcells company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers and providers of solar photovoltaic (PV) products and solutions. Headquartered in Irvine, California, HQCA has been rapidly expanding its business in North America through the expansion of products and solutions, including distributed energy solutions, direct-to-homeowner solar sales and financing, and EPC services. We provide an opportunity to be part of an exciting and growing world-class global business in an interesting and expanding industry of the future.
PHYSICAL, MENTAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS: To comply with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 the essential physical, mental and environmental requirements for this job are listed below. These are requirements normally expected to perform regular job duties. Incumbent must be able to successfully perform all of the functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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