Staff Accountant
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our eight employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.
Join us to perform responsibilities as a staff accountant for the Project Billing and General Ledger Teams within the Financial Operations Group. Performs accounting responsibilities including accruals invoice reviews and adjustments, billings and tracking of Federal project receivables, and also provides additional support to the Project Billing and General Ledger Teams. Ensures compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), federal accounting standards (SFFAS), applicable laws, regulations, DOE contractual requirements, and NREL and Alliance policies and procedures. This position has the ability to be hybrid or in-person and reports to the Project Billing Team Lead.
- Reviews and analyzes customer contracts and cost plans.
- Finds solutions to accounting problems and customer issues.
- Collaborate with the other teams in the lab to ensure timely and accurate customer service on all Project Billing related issues an ongoing basis, including but not limited to project reconciliations, aging issues, billing items, reports.
- Responsible for the accounting, invoicing, review, and aging management of receivables.
- Prepares routine and complex customer invoices and provides adequate supporting documentation based on individual customer needs.
- Performs and conducts analysis of balance sheet and other account reconciliations and supporting schedules, reports on discrepancies and assists in monthly account resolutions.
- Communicates with customers and Principal Investigators both verbally and in writing, as needed.
- Prepares manual journal entries and supporting documentation.
- Provides testing and migration support of solutions through Oracle and other financial software applications to ensure results.
- Ensures compliance with financial operations policies and procedures, and ensure adequate controls are in place and operating effectively.
- Other accounting and financial operations duties as assigned.
The successful candidate will be a continuous learner, thinks critically, takes initiative and has a commitment to quality and detail. We are looking for someone who can join our organization growing with it and is eager to progress in their career.