Staff Accountant

Greenbacker Renewable Energy is seeking a Staff Accountant for its Portland, ME office. The role involves accounting and financial reporting for structured financing activities, supporting month-end and year-end close procedures, and ensuring compliance with US GAAP. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree in Accounting and 1-2 years of experience. This is a hybrid position, requiring some presence in the office.
Company Description:

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company is an independent power producer (IPP) and a leading climate-focused investment manager (IM), whose mission is to empower a sustainable world by connecting individuals and institutions with investments in clean energy. Since our founding in 2011, we’ve grown to over 200 employees in four offices—New York City, Portland, ME, Denver, CO, and Montpelier, VT—and other individual locations across the US, and have positioned ourselves as a market leader in energy transition, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure investments.

Greenbacker’s IPP business segment acquires, develops, constructs, and operates income-producing clean energy infrastructure projects (e.g., solar energy, wind power, energy storage) in communities across the country. These assets sell power under long-term contracts to high-credit-quality counterparties, including utilities, municipalities, and corporations. As of 2023, our IPP fleet comprises over 450 projects, representing 3.4 gigawatts of total clean energy production and storage capacity.

Within our IM business segment, Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) serves as the registered investment adviser to five funds focused on green power generation and the energy transition, including private equity investment in growth-stage clean energy companies, across a wide range of sustainable infrastructure and renewables sectors. Please visit www.greenbackercapital.com to learn more about our company, mission, team, and portfolios.

Greenbacker is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Greenbacker will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.

Requirements

Job Purpose/Background:

An opportunity has arisen to join Greenbacker’s Accounting team. The role will report to a Senior Accountant and the selected individual will contribute to accounting and financial reporting functions related to Greenbacker’s structured financing activities. The role is a hybrid role based in our Portland, Maine, Montpelier, VT or New York City, NY office and is intended to be a hybrid position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Account for new debt financing and interest rate swap arrangements; including their recognition in the Company’s financial statements in accordance with US GAAP.

• Assist with month, quarter, and year-end close procedures related to the Company’s financing arrangements and interest rate swaps; including, preparing, and maintaining work papers and documents supporting the trial balance.

• Reviewing and understanding various financing agreements related to the Company’s financing activities.

• Assist with the satisfaction of requests from external auditors in fulfillment of the year-end financial statement audit process.

• Collaborating with colleagues to ensure accounting procedures comply with US GAAP and internal controls are followed.

• Assisting with cross-department projects, and other ad hoc initiatives.

• Maintaining organization and seizing opportunities to improve efficiency and work quality in a constantly growing and changing landscape.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting is required.

• 1 to 2 years of experience in accounting is preferred.

• Proficiency with Oracle ERP or similar accounting software (e.g. Quickbooks, Netsuite) is preferred.

• Exposure to financial institutions (i.e. commercial lending) is a plus.

• Familiarity with data processing tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Python, and treasury software such as G-Treasury is a plus.

• Strong organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Participation in the buildout of scalable processes is preferred.

• Analytical and detail-oriented mindset.

• Highly motivated, results-oriented, and possesses a strong sense of ownership.

Benefits
• Medical: 5 United Health Care Oxford options
• Dental: Guardian – two options
• Vision: Guardian / VSP – one option (100% employee paid)
• Life and AD&D: Short term and long-term disability (both 100% employer paid)
• Retirement/401(K): ADP/Voya with 50% match up to 6% of salary
• Other: Medical and dependent care / Health Savings Accounts, Pre-tax commuter benefits through Optum
• Time Off: 20 days paid time off, 7 sick days a year, 32 hours of VTO a year.
• Family Building: Coverage for infertility, adoption, surrogacy, and 16 weeks of family leave.

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