Accounting Senior Advisor_BCAT

As an Accounting Senior Advisor at ENGIE Energy Management NA, Inc. (“EEMNA”), you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting for EEMNA and its subsidiaries. This role balances operational excellence, people leadership, and governance while driving process standardization, internal control maturity, and finance transformation initiatives aligned with ENGIE Group. This role requires strong partnership with Market Risk and Operations personnel at EEMNA as well as stakeholders at Global Business Support (GBS) and ENGIE finance personnel in Paris.

The ability to lead teams through change in a dynamic and fast-evolving energy environment is required. You will work closely with stakeholders to drive performance and impact results. You will manage the period-end close process, ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, and coordinate tasks performed by the Accounting Shared Services Team (GBS). You will be responsible for delivering financial results for your business unit and support the accounting teams with expertise in financial reporting, energy accounting, transactional tax, process controls, and audit coordination.

• Own and oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes for the energy trading risk management system, ensuring adherence to established close calendars, including the three-day monthly close, and GBS standards
• Manage revenue accounting activities for EEMNA’s energy trading business, including revenue reconciliations, journal entries, gross margin reporting, and reconciliation of data from commercial and trading systems.
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of energy gross margin and associated balance sheet accounts, including accruals, revenue recognition, inventory, and intercompany activity.
• Review and analyze financial statements, including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, in collaboration with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to identify and explain variances, trends, and risks.
• Partner with Market Risk, Operations, Front Office, FP&A, and GBS teams to investigate discrepancies, resolve accounting issues, and deliver accurate financial results within critical reporting deadlines.
• Ensure compliance with ENGIE Group accounting policies, U.S. GAAP, internal control frameworks, and applicable statutory requirements.
• Design, maintain, and improve internal controls over financial reporting, including control documentation, reconciliations, testing support, remediation of control gaps, and audit readiness.
• Act as a key finance contact and internal audit liaison for internal audits, external audits, control reviews, and regulatory requests, ensuring timely and high-quality responses.
• Analyze new data sources and evolving business processes to identify root causes, troubleshoot reporting challenges, and create practical solutions where established procedures may not exist.
• Lead finance transformation and continuous improvement initiatives involving process standardization, system implementations, reporting optimization, automation, and evaluation of AI-enabled solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in which you developed knowledge of financial reporting, accounting principles, and financial analysis and completed courses in Accounting, Finance or any related disciplines
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive accounting experience, including experience independently leading complex accounting activities or work streams.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and experience applying accounting principles to financial reporting and revenue-related activities.
• Experience reviewing and interpreting income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements and explaining financial…