Houston, TX, USA ● Legence, 1601 Las Plumas Ave., San Jose, California, United States of America Req #1737
Monday, September 9, 2024
Legence, a Blackstone portfolio company, is an Energy Transition Accelerator that provides advisory services and implementation focused on financing, designing, building, and servicing complex systems in mission-critical and high performance facilities. With five decades of expertise in the built environment, Legence has a proven track record of reducing carbon emissions, implementing renewables, lowering utility costs through efficiency consumption, and making systems run better at unmatched speed and scale.
Location: San Jose, CA
Responsibilities:
- Ownership and oversight of corporate accounting and reporting.
- Coordinate, manage and support monthly corporate close activities for timeliness, accuracy, and completeness, ensuring preparation, review, and compliance of financial statements with GAAP and other applicable requirements.
- Partner with the entire corporate accounting team, finance, tax, and business units as needed to support the corporate accounting and reporting processes.
- Work with the corporate technical accounting team to drive accounting and reporting for complex matters related to significant Company transactions (including acquisitions) and adoption of new accounting and regulatory standards.
- Manage monthly, quarterly and year-end financial activities, including journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, rollforwards, trend analysis, accruals, expense allocations, reserve analysis, and intercompany transactions.
- Review or create periodic reporting schedules and commentary regarding financial position and operating results analyzing variances from budget, forecast, and prior periods.
- Partner with Tax and others to oversee legal entity accounting.
- Assist with the preparation of the annual budget and analysis of variances.
- Stay updated on the latest accounting standards and industry best practices.
- Assist in the implementation or update of accounting-related software, including establishing and maintaining control procedures.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls related to corporate accounting and reporting processes.
- Collaborate with external auditors to facilitate efficient audits and ensure compliance with audit requirements.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practices to streamline accounting operations.
- Support management in fulfilling ad hoc requests and special projects.
- Effectively lead and mentor any direct reports and others supporting this position’s responsibilities.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and development.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Operates at the highest standards of business ethics, honesty, personal integrity, and professionalism.
- Strong attention to detail, rigorous and methodical.
- Self-starter with a positive attitude that takes initiative and drives results.
- Strong project management skills and ability to work remotely/hybrid effectively in a distributed matrix organization.
- Travel and off-site collaboration several times a year.
- Adaptable to change and ability to pivot priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Critical thinking skills to solve problems and identify opportunities for process improvement.
- Strong computer skills including knowledge of ERP systems, OneStream or HFM, and other financial applications.
- Advanced PC skills using Outlook, Word, Excel (ability to perform Pivots, V-lookups, X-lookups, and other functions with Excel).
Required Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
- 7+ years of progressive experience in accounting with demonstrated skills and experience in corporate accounting.
- Knowledge of GAAP.
- Experience leading teams.
Unable to provide sponsorship for this position.
Health and Welfare Benefits
- Health and Welfare
- Medical
- Vision
- Employee assistance program
Personal Benefits
- Paid vacation
- Company-paid holidays
- Sick leave
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Company-paid long-term disability insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
Offers of employment for this role may be contingent upon successfully passing a background check and/or drug screen. Execution of screens will vary based on role requirements and Company policy. All background checks and drug screens will be done in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Legence and its affiliate companies are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, other non-merit-based factors, and any other characteristic protected under applicable local, state or federal laws and regulations.
Reasonable Accommodations
If you require assistance applying online, email ta@wearelegence.com. Please include a description of the specific accommodations you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. If you are selected for an interview, please notify your recruiter of your accommodation needs. All efforts to provide reasonable accommodations will be made.
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