Senior Financial Accountant – Power Trading

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🔥 38 minutes ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Active Power Investments LLC

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11 - 50 employees

⚡ Energy

💸 Finance

Energy • Finance

Active Power Investments LLC is a market-participant investment and trading firm focused on North American wholesale power markets. It trades virtual transactions (VTs), participates in Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs) / Congestion Revenue Rights (CRRs) auctions, and trades related energy products such as electric power and natural gas futures and exchange-traded derivatives across ISOs (CAISO, ERCOT, MISO, NYISO, PJM, SPP) and exchanges (ICE, CME). The firm offers investors exposure to these energy-market trading strategies and emphasizes data, technology, and flexible trader-driven book management; it also recruits traders, analysts, and support staff.

📋 Description

• Lead the quarterly and annual financial close process for the company and its affiliated entities • Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, consolidations, and supporting financial schedules • Maintain the integrity and accuracy of the general ledger and underlying accounting records within NetSuite • Prepare variance analyses and investigate unusual or unexpected changes in revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, and trading results • Maintain accounting policies, close procedures, reporting templates, and other finance documentation • Own the accounting, reconciliation, and maintenance of power-market settlement activity • Review and reconcile settlement statements from ISOs/RTOs, exchanges, brokers, and other trading counterparties against trade records, internal reporting systems, bank activity, and the general ledger • Identify, investigate, and resolve settlement discrepancies, missing transactions, and data-quality issues • Coordinate the preparation and timely filing of the company's federal and state tax returns • Maintain tax-compliance calendars and monitor filing and information-reporting deadlines • Review tax returns and supporting calculations prepared by the external accountant for completeness and consistency with the company's accounting records • Coordinate financial statement audits, reviews, and other engagements performed by external accountants • Prepare audit schedules, account analyses, supporting documentation, and responses to auditor inquiries • Ensure financial records and reporting packages are complete, accurate, and submitted within required deadlines • Maintain organized documentation supporting financial statements, tax returns, settlements, and regulatory submissions • Assist with accounts payable, expense accounting, and the allocation of shared expenses among entities or trading books • Review financial obligations and payment schedules arising from contracts and vendor agreements • Support the preparation and allocation of expenses to trader books • Provide backup support for other critical back-office activities as required

🎯 Requirements

• CPA designation, or equivalent recognized professional accounting designation, in good standing • Minimum of three years of relevant professional accounting experience following completion of the CPA designation • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related discipline • Public accounting (Big 4 or equivalent) articling background • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with financial and non-financial stakeholders • Experience in power trading, energy trading, commodities, financial markets, hedge funds, or another trading-related environment (preferred) • Familiarity with ISO/RTO markets and power-market settlement statements (preferred) • Experience with NetSuite — implementation, configuration, saved searches, workflows, reporting, or system integrations (preferred) • Demonstrated interest in using automation and technology to improve accounting efficiency and reporting quality (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work, giving you the flexibility to be wherever you do your best work