Staff Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | Calibrant Energy

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Calibrant Energy, a provider of on-site energy solutions for large power users. Calibrant develops, owns, and operates large-scale solar, battery storage, and microgrids to help customers achieve energy goals. This Staff Accountant role is a core member of the accounting team, crucial for the accurate and timely execution of day-to-day operations and ensuring a clean, on-time monthly close. The position also directly supports external auditors and contributes to modernizing accounting functions with automation and AI tools.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-Time
• Location: Remote, United States

• Team: Accounting team, reporting to senior accounting leadership.
• Mission: Responsible for the accurate and timely execution of day-to-day accounting operations to ensure a clean, on-time monthly close.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite OneWorld, automated AP workflow, Excel, Medius, Coupa, Bill.com, BlackLine.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Month-End Close & Reconciliations: Prepare assigned journal entries, ensuring correct account, subsidiary, and period coding. Execute balance sheet and bank reconciliations across multiple accounts, clearly documenting reconciling items and plans to clear them. Prepare recurring accruals, prepaid amortization, and fixed asset schedules, researching and clearing exceptions before deadlines.
• Accounts Payable & Vendor Management: Process vendor invoices through the automated workflow, confirming accurate coding and routing for approval. Review invoices for accuracy and agreement with contracts, set up and maintain vendor master records with verification controls, and reconcile vendor statements. Prepare AP aging reports and recommend payment runs.
• Customer Invoicing & Collections Support: Coordinate with the Asset Management team to produce accurate and timely customer invoices. Verify invoice supporting documentation against contract terms, reconcile billed amounts to the general ledger, and maintain the accounts receivable aging. Apply cash receipts and support follow-up on past-due balances.
• Audit, Compliance & Reporting Support: Prepare schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation as requested by external and internal auditors, and respond to follow-up questions. Compile data extracts and account-level schedules that feed management, budgeting, and lender or sponsor reporting packages. Support sales, use, and indirect tax filings.
• Systems & Process Improvement: Work day-to-day in NetSuite and the AP automation platform, proactively flagging data or workflow issues. Partner with senior team members to document and improve recurring processes, reducing manual effort. Contribute to reconciliation and close-automation initiatives as the team’s systems footprint matures.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, with solid working knowledge of US GAAP and standard accounting practices including accruals, prepaids, and fixed assets.
• Experience: 1-3 years of accounting experience in public accounting or industry, hands-on experience with an accounting system (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks), and strong Excel skills including lookups and pivot tables.
• Skills: Demonstrable attention to detail, strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to meet multiple deadlines, clear and professional written and verbal communication, and comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with sound judgment.
• Bonus: CPA licensed or actively sitting for the exam, experience in energy, renewables, infrastructure, construction, or project-based business, multi-entity or multi-currency experience, or exposure to AP automation or reconciliation tools like BlackLine.