Senior Accountant - Financial Accounting

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company is an independent power producer (IPP) and a leading climate-focused investment manager (IM), whose mission is to empower a sustainable world by connecting individuals and institutions with investments in clean energy. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve grown to over 165 employees in four offices—New York City, Portland, ME, Denver, CO, and Montpelier, VT—and other individual locations across the US, and have positioned ourselves as a market leader in energy transition, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure investments. 

Greenbacker’s IPP business segment acquires, owns, and operates income-producing clean energy infrastructure projects (e.g., solar energy, wind power, energy storage) in communities across the country. These assets sell power under long-term contracts to high-credit-quality counterparties, including utilities, municipalities, and corporations. Our IPP fleet comprises over 450 projects, representing 3.4 gigawatts of total clean energy production and storage capacity. Within our IM business segment, Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) serves as the registered investment adviser to five funds focused on green power generation and the energy transition, including private equity investment in growth-stage clean energy companies, across a wide range of sustainable infrastructure and renewables sectors. Please visit www.greenbackercapital.com to learn more about our company, mission, team, and portfolios. 

Greenbacker is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Greenbacker will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Gabriela Nishioka (gabriela.nishioka@greenbackercapital.com)

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform and review consolidated month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closings, journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analysis
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure accounting policies and procedures are GAAP compliant and internal controls are followed
• Project management, including developing and maintaining timelines for multiple projects to ensure issues are addressed, deliverables and appropriate journal entries and workpapers are completed timely, etc.
• Assist with coordinating audits, and auditor information requests
• Other team, departmental, or organizational duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Public accounting experience and/or CPA preferred
• 3+ years of accounting experience
• Undergraduate accounting degree and/or Master of Accounting/business degree preferred
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP
• Intermediate to Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel
• Ability to thrive and manage change in a fast-growing company
• Experience in managing a team of one or more employees is a plus
• Analytical and detail-oriented

Benefits

Medical: Insperity/ 5 United Health Care options (3 PPO’s and 2 High Deductible Health Plans)

Dental: Guardian – two options / 100% employer paid for employee; 50% employer paid for spouse and children

Vision: VSP – 100% employee paid

Life and AD&D: Unum / 100% employer paid / 2 times annual

Short-term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base

Long term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base

Retirement: Insperity ~ various stock, bond and lifestyle fund options / 50% match up to 6% of salary

Other: Medical and dependent care / Health Savings Accounts / Pre-tax commuter benefits / 20 days paid time off & 7 sick days, Modern Health: 24/7 access to Coaching and Therapy sessions for employees' and dependents

Parental Leave Benefits: 16 weeks of paid leave for employees who have been with the company for 1+ years

Family Building Benefits/Fertility Benefits Provided through a Fertility HRA

Adoption/Surrogacy: financial support to employees who are growing their families through the adoption of a child or a surrogacy parenting arrangement. Through this program, Greenbacker offers partial reimbursement for up to seventy-five percent (75%) of the costs