Asset Accounting Manager

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

Working in PGE’s Accounting department is more than numbers and balance sheets. Joining this collaborative team is an opportunity to develop your skills and work on complex projects with people from different areas of expertise. Do you continuously look for ways to optimize work processes? Are you someone that is action oriented and skilled in the art of communication? If so, we are looking for you, and there is room to grow where the future is electric.

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As Manager of our Asset Accounting group, you will play a critical role in supporting PGE’s strategic investment plans. You’ll be responsible for the accounting and controls related to the lifecycle of capital projects, such as construction, allowance for funds used during construction (AFUDC), depreciation, cost of removal, asset retirement obligations, and retirement. You’ll be responsible for accounting transactions and ensuring the integrity of internal controls and accounting records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), regulatory accounting, and the company’s capital policy.

In this role you’ll perform accounting activities that include review and approval of journal entries and reconciliations of ledger accounts and financial statements, such as balance sheets and profit and loss statements that support our SEC and FERC filings. In addition, you will plan, align, review, and supervise accounting research, application and interpretation of the capital policy, rate making activities (e.g. general rate cases, stand‑alone rate making, and other filings).

You’ll also be a subject matter expert that provides analysis and consulting support to the business to help understand forecasting and budgeting variances that will assist in decision‑making. In this role, you will collaborate frequently with multiple departments, such as corporate planning, rates and regulatory affairs, and various utility operations departments.

Our ideal candidate is someone that is proactive about improving processes, has a collaborative mindset, and is ready to jump into leading a team to achieve strategic outcomes.

As an Asset Accounting Manager, you will:

• Manage professional employees and/or supervisors
• Accountable for the performance and results of a team
• Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges
• Make decisions guided by policies, resources and business plan; receive moderate guidance from manager
• Provide subject matter guidance to employees, colleagues and/or customers

Manage a team of accounting and finance professionals responsible for general accounting activities, including the preparation, maintenance, and reconciliation of ledger accounts and financial statements, such as balance sheets and profit‑and‑loss statements; provide technical management of an accounting/finance team, ensuring that agreed objectives are met and all relevant standards/procedures are followed; ensure that operational problems are identified and resolved; oversee accounting transactions and ensure the integrity of internal controls and accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, company policy, and regulatory accounting.

Monitors and manages expenditures, ensuring that all financial targets are met, and examines any areas where budgets/expenditures vary from plan; assists with the definition and operation of effective financial controls and decision‑making.

Oversees resourcing decisions and planning for the…