Accounting Advisor

Become an Accounting Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll be responsible for executing month-end close activities, preparing recurring reports, and maintaining regulatory accounting for power supply costs. The role supports accurate cost tracking, reconciliations, and regulatory mechanisms to ensure compliance and timely recovery. This position provides day-to-day accounting and reporting support in close coordination with Power Procurement and Regulatory teams.

As an Accounting Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Oversees processes related to general ledger and month end close entries.
• Directs the annual financial statement audit by working directly with internal staff and external accounting firm.
• Manages the preparation, compilation, and review of monthly and annual financial statements and other reports in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Communicates monthly variance analysis and reasoning for variance and trends.
• Prepares a monthly cash report that identifies the current cash position for each bank account and reconciles all temporarily restricted fund balances for management.
• Leads the development of the annual budget; aids in the review and validation of the annual operating budget and reviews a variety of spreadsheets, documents, and assists in completing the final budget documentation.
• Takes part in the year-end audit; when requested by auditors, provides supporting schedules, work papers, and financial reports.
• Analyzes and prepares a multitude of reports for financial, tax, and regulatory purposes. Performs financial analysis and provides support for quarterly forecasts and annual budgets.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in accounting.
• Experience with interpreting and applying Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field.
• 4-8 years of experience in utility accounting, regulatory accounting, or power supply finance.
• Experience with month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Familiarity with regulated utility environments and cost recovery mechanisms preferred.
• Experience with SAP or similar ERP systems preferred.
• CPA or progress toward certification a plus, but not required.

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.