Accounting Manager

Requisition ID:  91374 

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Position Specific Description

We operate over 3,000 oil and gas wells across Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. As a key leader in our Accounting team, you’ll oversee financial reporting and accounting for our Upstream business, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and strategic insight.

Key Responsibilities

Transformation Lead

• Lead near term transformation project to overhaul existing processes for uploading transactions from oil and gas software to ERP
• Establish new analytical processes, spanning revenue and property related processes
• Develop and implement accounting policies and procedures.
• Lead technical accounting support for upstream operations.

Base Responsibilities

Financial Oversight

• Lead general ledger management for upstream entities consolidated under NextEra Energy Resources.
• Direct monthly close cycles, quarterly and annual reporting.

Asset Management

• Oversee Fixed Asset accounting, including DD&A and impairment assessments.
• Ensure timely asset capitalization and accurate capex reporting

Audit & Compliance

• Coordinate internal and external audits, ensuring timely and cost-effective completion.
• Maintain SOX compliance for financial reporting and fixed asset controls.

Performance Analysis

• Conduct monthly revenue and leasehold operating accrual-to-actual analysis.
• Prepare monthly financial statement reviews and present findings to senior leadership.
• Analyze financial performance across revenue, operating expenses, and capital expenditures.

Team Leadership

• Drive performance management and foster effective communication across locations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• CPA
• Master’s degree preferred
• 10+ years of oil & gas accounting experience, including 2+ years in a supervisory or management role.
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to synthesize and communicate complex, large data sets; SQL experience
• SAP experience
• Oil and gas accounting software experience
• Proven experience managing geographically distributed teams (Houston and offshore).
• Strong command of GAAP and ability to research and resolve technical accounting issues.

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Employee Group:  Exempt
Employee Type:  Full Time
Job Category:  Finance, Accounting & Business Analytics
Organization:  NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC 
Relocation Provided:  No

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