Accounting Specialist – Trading Finance

A little about Capital Power

Capital Power (TSX: CPX) is dedicated to Powering Change by Changing Power. This north star guides our ambitions, focus, and actions as we transform our energy system. We're a growth-oriented North American energy company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. Our team safely delivers, builds, and creates balanced energy solutions for customers across North America.

Our people are at the core of our journey to deliver reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon power solutions. We provide purpose-driven work in a safe and inclusive environment, and we live by our North Star. With us, your contributions matter – we want you to be empowered to innovate, collaborate, and ultimately drive results. We're here to partner with you so you can learn, grow, and forge a career that's meaningful to you.

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One Permanent Full Time Position.

We’re growing and are currently seeking an innovative and results-oriented individual to join our Trading and Origination Accounting team!

We are seeking a highly motivated Accounting Specialist to join our dynamic team at Capital Power. As an Accounting Specialist – Trading Finance, you will play a vital role in supporting our growing energy trading business by ensuring accounting results and cash flow at the transactional level accurately represent the trading activity through a combination of accounting and analytical skills, business understanding, leveraging technology, and collaboration with multiple teams and customers.

The scope of the role covers power, natural gas, and/or environmental trading activities including new business initiatives and ongoing continuous process improvements. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to a world-class organization and make a significant impact in supporting our business.

• Supporting month-end general ledger close processes and reporting through analysis of results, account reconciliations, daily reconciliation and check-out process for trading transactions, preparation of entries including accruals, and timely counter party invoicing, collection and payment activities.
• Applying continuously expanding industry and accounting skills and knowledge to support the growing trading activities across North America’s power, natural gas, and renewables sectors.
• Coordinating and aligning transaction details and other data between 3rd party counter parties and ISOs, and internal business partners including but not limited to Finance, Trading and Origination, Information Services, Legal, and Risk Management groups.
• Becoming proficient working with the energy trading and risk management system (ETRM), EPM system and various other applications to execute daily and monthly activities.
• Supporting new business and systems initiatives including identification, recommendations, planning, and execution of continuous process improvement projects positively impacting the effectiveness of controls, and efficiency and effectiveness of processes.
• Establishing and maintaining a strong working rapport with both internal and external parties, including accurately responding to inquiries in a timely and professional manner.
• Assisting with deliverables associated with quarter-end interim reviews and year-end audits.
• Maintaining updated documentation and checklists around the accounting processes, ensuring adherence to CSOX and other internal controls.
• Adhering to HSE procedures/rules and standards.

• Degree/diploma in accounting, business or related field.
• Progression toward a CPA or CFA designation is an asset.

• 3-5 years of demonstrated accounting experience with preference given to those with energy trading finance or risk management, or equivalent experience.
• Previous experience with trade accounting applications such as Allegro or TriplePoint, and EPM applications such as Oracle or SAP is considered an asset.
• The ideal candidate will be experienced in accounting/settlements, competent in developing Excel models and tools required to reconcile large amounts of data between disparate sources and understand…