Financial Reporting Advisor (EVERGREEN)

 

 

What You Can Expect

Assist in the compilation and delivery of IFRS and/or US GAAP based financial statements, reporting packages, and analysis to local management and ENGIE Group. Ensure reporting compliance with IFRS and US GAAP standards, including active involvement in footnote drafting and review to support the completeness, accuracy, and compliance of ENGIE Holdings Inc. (EHI) audited financial statements. Develop processes to drive continuous improvement in financial reporting. Co-ordinate external audits for ENGIE North America and its partnerships, and joint ventures, including timely audit planning, PBC coordination, issue resolution, auditor communication, and progress monitoring

 

• Compile and review financial statement reporting packages to ensure they comply with IFRS or US GAAP, as applicable, and comply with contractual partnership reporting requirements. 
• Strengthen coordination of the EHI statutory audit and external partnership audits, including audit planning, timeline management, status tracking, issue escalation, and timely resolution of audit matters. 
• Actively participate in drafting, reviewing, and tying out EHI financial statement footnotes and disclosures to ensure the audited financial statements are complete, accurate, internally consistent, and in full compliance with applicable IFRS requirements. 
• Coordinate with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Technical Accounting, FP&A, Operations, Asset Management, and other ENGIE teams to ensure audit PBC requests are assigned, collected, reviewed, and submitted to external auditors on time and without unnecessary delay. 
• Participate in recurring audit meetings with external auditors and internal stakeholders, maintain action item trackers, monitor open items and audit progress, and proactively follow up to keep the audit on schedule. 
• Resource plan, in coordination with the Financial Control and Reporting Director, to meet all reporting and audit deadlines, identify process bottlenecks and efficiency opportunities, and ensure appropriate ownership and accountability across audit deliverables. 
• Independently research and resolves financial reporting issues.  
• Continuously engage with business units’ plant and project accounting, operations, business development, and asset optimization teams to coordinate and prepare responses for special requests for the business unit. 
• Manage internal partnership management activities, including gathering data, providing analysis, preparing reports, making recommendations, driving productivity initiatives, and corrective actions.  
• Coordinate the integration of new acquisitions into the audit and financial reporting processes. 

 

 

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required, CPA certified or currently in progress towards the certification.  
• 7+ years’ experience in external audit, audit coordination, or external financial reporting background for various stakeholders. 
• Experience managing external audit deliverables for a large corporate group, including audit planning, PBC coordination, financial statement review, disclosure support, and direct interaction with external auditors. 
• Public accounting or Big 4 audit experience, or equivalent experience managing complex annual audits and audited financial statement processes, is strongly preferred. 
• 7+ years’ experience in the energy industry preferred.    
• 7+ years of accounting for tax equity partnerships preferred. 
• Internal management reporting experience is preferred. 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products including advanced Excel. 
• Energy sector planning and analysis experience with relevant academic qualifications and intimacy with financial statements. 
• Deadline driven with project managemen