Staff - Financial Accounting

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 180 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, owns, 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.

As Greenbacker continues to raise capital and grow our portfolio of renewable energy projects, an opportunity has arisen to join the company. The role will report to a Corporate Accounting Senior. Since we are a small and evolving firm, the responsibilities will be broad, varied, and all encompassing. The role can be based in our Portland, Maine office, Montpellier, Vermont office, or New York, New York office.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the Senior Accountant with month, quarter, and year end close procedures including compiling, preparing, and maintaining workpapers and documents supporting the trial balances of acquirers.
• Review and understand various contracts related to the renewable energy projects.
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure accounting procedures are compliant with U.S. GAAP and that internal controls are implemented and followed.
• Collaborate with colleagues to improve Greenbacker’s asset onboarding and offboarding processes.
• Perform and review periodic account reconciliations, variance analyses, and adjusting journal entries to track and support cost basis across Greenbacker’s renewable energy portfolio.
• Participate in department projects, including developing and maintaining timelines and checklists for multiple projects to ensure all deadlines are met.
• Be active in the audit process of numerous Greenbacker subsidiaries to ensure audit requests are responded to in a timely manner.
• Maintain organization and seize opportunities to improve efficiency and work quality in a constantly growing and changing landscape.
• Perform other team, departmental, and organizational duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• CPA preferred; audit experience preferred
• 1+ years of relevant experience
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP
• Experience in energy / utilities a plus (not required)
• Experience with Oracle ERP Cloud or other accounting ERP software programs a plus
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office programs such as Word and Excel
• Ability to thrive and manage change in a fast-growing company
• Analytical and detail oriented
• Proven ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions
• Highly motivated, independent, results-oriented, and possessing a strong sense of ownership

Benefits

Medical: Insperity/ 5 United Health Care options (3 PPO’s and 2 High Deductible Health Plans) / 100% employer paid for employee; 50% employer paid for spouse and children

Dental: Guardian – two options / 100% employer paid for employee; 50% employer paid for spouse and children

Vision: Guardian / VSP – two options / 100% employee paid

Life and AD&D: Unum / 100% employer paid / 2 times annual

Short term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base

Long term disability: Unum / 100% employer paid / 60% base

Retirement: Insperity ~ various stock, bond and lifestyle fund options / 50% match up to 6% of salary

Other: Medical and dependent care / Health Savings Accounts / Pre-tax commuter benefits / 20 days paid time off & 7 sick days, Modern Health: 24/7 access to Coaching and Therapy sessions for employees' and dependents

Parental Leave Benefits: 16 weeks paid leave for employees who have been with the company for 1+ years

Family Building Benefits/Fertility Benefits Provided through a Fertility HRA

Adoption/Surrogacy: financial support to employees who are growing their families through the adoption of a child or a surrogacy parenting arrangement. Through this program, Greenbacker offers partial reimbursement for up to seventy-five percent (75%) of the costs