Senior Accountant, Private Equity Operations

Overview

About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy expansion solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through its transmission business, LS Power Grid, the company built and operates 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission and 7 transmission utilities and has another 375+ miles currently in construction or development.

LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are meeting the growing needs of the energy expansion, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $76 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Valuesb>

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits:

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

About the Role:

We are currently searching for a Senior Accountant to join our private equity operations team based in East Brunswick, NJ. This person will primarily be responsible for maintaining and reviewing the books and records of the investment funds and preparing reports for investors and management.

What you will do:

• Book and review journal entries.
• Reconcile, review, and manage cash balances.
• Prepare and review quarterly financial statements, investor capital account statements, and supporting work papers.
• Prepare and send capital call and distribution notices to investors.
• Deliver investor communications via our online investor portal.
• Own processes beginning to end and manage every aspect of your assigned Funds’ operations.
• Assist with the annual audit by providing supporting documents to our external auditors.
• Compile and analyze data to be presented to senior management.
• Ad hoc projects assigned by supervisor.

We want you on our team because you…

• A Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• 0+ GPA.
• 2+ years experience in private equity accounting, with public accounting experience a plus.
• Passed the CPA exam or are actively pursuing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work well independently and within a team atmosphere.
• Ability to operate effectively with limited supervision and are a self-starter.