Corporate Accounting Senior Manager - Legence

Houston, TX, USA ● Legence, 1601 Las Plumas Ave., San Jose, California, United States of AmericaReq #1737

Monday, September 9, 2024

Legence (https://www.wearelegence.com/) , a Blackstone portfolio company, is an Energy Transition Accelerator™ that provides advisory services and implementation focused on financing, designing, building, and servicing complex systems in mission-critical and high performance facilities. With five decades of expertise in the built environment, Legence has a proven track record of reducing carbon emissions, implementing renewables, lowering utility costs through efficiency consumption, and making systems run better at unmatched speed and scale.

Location: San Jose, CA

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Ownership and oversight of corporate accounting and reporting.

• Coordinate, manage and support monthly corporate close activities for timeliness, accuracy, and completeness. This includes ensuring preparation, review, and compliance of financial statements with GAAP and other applicable requirements, including management reporting requirements.

• Partners with the entire corporate accounting team, finance, tax and business units as needed to support the corporate accounting and reporting processes.

• Partner’s with the corporate technical accounting team and others to help drive accounting and reporting for complex accounting and reporting matters related to significant Company transactions (including acquisitions) and adoption of new accounting and regulatory standards.

• Manage monthly, quarterly and year-end financial activities, including journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, rollforwards, trend analysis, accruals, expense allocations, reserve analysis and intercompany transactions.

• Review or create periodic reporting schedules and commentary with respect to financial position and operating results analyzing variances from budget, forecast and prior periods

• Partner with Tax and others to oversee legal entity accounting

• Assist with the preparation of the annual budget (and/or forecasts more often) and analysis of variances.

• Stay up to date on the latest accounting standards and industry best practices.

• Assist, as needed, in the successful implementation of, update to, or augmentation of accounting related software including assistance in the establishment and maintenance of control procedures.

• Ensure compliance with internal controls related to corporate accounting and related reporting processes.

• Collaborate with external auditors to facilitate efficient audits and ensure compliance with audit requirements.

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practices to streamline accounting operations.

• Support management in the fulfilment of ad hoc requests and special projects.

• Effectively lead and mentor any direct reports and others supporting this position’s responsibilities.

• Foster a culture of continuous learning and development.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Operates at the highest standards of business ethics, honesty, personal integrity, and professionalism.

• Strong attention to detail, rigorous and methodical.

• Self-starter with a positive attitude that takes initiative and drives results.

• Strong project management skills and ability to work remotely/hybrid and effectively in a distributed matrix organization.

• Travel and off-site collaboration several times a year.

• Adaptable to change and ability to pivot priorities in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.

• Critical thinking skills to solve problems and identify opportunities for process improvement.

• Strong computer skills including knowledge of ERP systems, OneStream or HFM and other financial applications.

• Advanced PC skills using Outlook, Word, Excel (ability to perform Pivots, V-lookups, X-lookups and other functions with Excel).

Required Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting.

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

• 7+ years of progressive experience in accounting with demonstrated skills and experience in corporate accounting.

• Knowledge of GAAP.

• Experience leading teams.

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Health and Welfare Benefits

• Health and Welfare

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Prescription drug

• Employee assistance program

Personal Benefits

• Paid vacation

• Company-paid holidays

• Sick leave

Financial Benefits

• 401(k) retirement savings plan

• Company-paid long-term disability insurance

• AD&D insurance

• Life insurance

Contingent Employment Statement

Offers of employment for this role may be contingent upon successfully passing a background check and/or drug screen. Execution of screens will vary based on role requirements and Company policy. All background checks and drug screens will be done in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Legence and its affiliate companies are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, other non-merit-based factors, and any other characteristic protected under applicable local, state or federal laws and regulations.

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Reasonable Accommodations

If you require assistance applying online, email ta@wearelegence.com . Please include a description of the specific accommodations you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. If you are selected for an interview, please notify your recruiter of your accommodation needs. All efforts to provide reasonable accommodations will be made.

To all recruitment agencies

Legence and its affiliate companies do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our career’s alias or employees of Legence and/or its affiliate companies. Legence and/or its affiliate companies are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Any third-party recruiting agreements for Legence and its affiliate companies may only be executed by Legence Holdings LLC’s CHRO or Director of Talent Acquisition, without exception. All others are done without proper authorization and will not be honored. We will not be responsible for any fees under any third-party recruiting agreement not executed by said authority.

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

Legence and its affiliate companies will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Other details

• Pay TypeSalary

• Travel RequiredYes

• Required EducationBachelor’s Degree

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• Legence, 1601 Las Plumas Ave., San Jose, California, United States of America