Director - Corporate Control Accounting

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $175,000 - $219,000

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for the direction and oversight of the accounting activities within Avangrid Group (AGR), which includes both regulated and non-regulated business affiliates. This position will also be responsible for the oversight of the management and control of the AGR Financial Ledger completed the roles direct reports including supporting the AGR Business Control Teams in their understanding and use of the SAP application to meet US GAAP and Iberdrola accounting standards. Additionally, this position will be responsible for the AGR standalone financial information. This position will have two direct reports into their group of 8 including themselves.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibility over the accounting close of the AGR standalone companies in all applicable accounting standards (US GAAP & IFRS) by enforcing established timelines and completion of deliverables. Review and/or preparation of standalone financial results. Approval and submission of post-closing accounting entries from AGR Subsidiary Accounting Teams and coordination with Consolidations Department to meet consolidated reporting needs.

• Implement SAP in all present and future USA companies.

• Non Transactional SAP Master Data Creation/Maintenance in coordination with Iberdrola SA and USA Business Performance.

• Review of SAP transactional activities to ensure USA compliance with all accounting deliverables, policies and procedures of the parent company.

• Transactional SAP Master Data Creation/Maintenance including orders and projects in coordination with Iberdrola SA and USA Business Performance to support asset and general accounting processes.

• Maintenance of deduction tables between auxiliary systems and SAP in coordination with Iberdrola SA and system owners.

• Responsible for the Fixed Asset data within SAP.

• Prepare and implement detailed accounting policies and determine how to account for each operation and with which criteria and underlying data. Work closely with the accounting standards team to prepare and determine these policies.

• Communicate accounting policies and quality standards to the rest of the three AGR Subsidiary Accounting Teams. Ensure compliance by providing support to AGR Subsidiary Accounting Teams.

• Ensure accurate reporting by challenging variances and unusual items in monthly P&L and key performance indicators and coordinating with AGR Subsidiary Accounting Teams to resolve issues.

• Determine accounting risks in conjunction with Internal Controls Department and design appropriate internal controls. Ensure appropriate operating effectiveness of department controls.

• Work closely with the external and internal auditors to ensure timely and successful completion of audits.

Required Qualifications:
 

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required.

• CPA and Master’s degree preferred.

• A minimum of 8 years relevant accounting experience.

• Accounting or financial experience in a management role required.

• Experience in preparation or audit of financial statements required.

Skills/Abilities:

• Detailed knowledge of US GAAP required.

• Knowledge of IFRS accounting standards preferred.

• Knowledge of FERC accounting standards preferred.

• Experience with SAP required.

• Strong leadership skills required.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability required.

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written required.

Preferred Qualifications:
 

Delivering for the Business:

• Global view of the Business - ADVANCED

• Achieving Results and Continuous Improvements - ADVANCED

• Initiative - ADVANCED

• Innovation & Creativity - ADVANCED

Global Relationships:

• Flexibility & Globalization - ADVANCED

• Customer Focus - ADVANCED

• Communicating & Influencing - ADVANCED

• Team Work - ADVANCED

Managing People:

• Team Management - ADVANCED

• Developing Others - ADVANCED

• Iberdrola IUSA Competency Model

Delivering for the Business:

• Global view of the Business

• Initial – Knows and understands own area of responsibility.

• Competent – Identifies and understands the relationships and links with other areas across the organization.

• Advanced – Can identify how his/her own business area contributes to the Iberdrola Group.

• Expert – Has a view of the organizational environment and the external market.

Achieving Results and Continuous Improvements:

• Initial – Performs work adequately, striving for effectiveness. Achieves agreed goals.

• Competent – Creates own working standards, places high demands on him/herself and the results achieved.

• Advanced – Makes changes in order to improve performance or results.

• Expert – Assumes new challenges, taking calculated risks.

Initiative:

• Initial – Solves problems in day-to-day role.

• Competent – Acts quickly and decisively in uncertain situations.

• Advanced – Anticipates problems and opportunities and acts accordingly.

• Expert – Creates opportunities and acts with future vision.

Innovation & Creativity:

• Initial – Willingly accepts innovative approaches.

• Competent – Has innovative ideas by applying experiences and knowledge already learned.

• Advanced – Fosters creative, innovative atmosphere in his/her working environment.

• Expert – Innovates & creates new concepts (Products, services, processes, etc.).

GLOBAL RELATIONSHIPS:
 

Flexibility & Globalization:

• Initial – Accepts the need to be flexible, reacts with a positive attitude to changes.

• Competent – Adapts his/her way of working to new requirements.

• Advanced – Facilitates change, adapts action strategy according to the changes in the internal/external environment.

• Expert – Instigates change.

Customer Focus:

• Initial – Responds to customer requests.

• Competent – Commits to the Customer.

• Advanced – Improves Service for current needs.

• Expert – Anticipates future needs.

Communicating & Influencing:

• Initial – Communicates appropriately with others within the usual working environment.

• Competent – Effectively communicates in more complex situations with a variety of people, with whom there may or may not be regular contact.

• Advanced – Exerts influence by using persuasive and convincing techniques.

• Expert – Uses network of contacts positively and encourages collaboration to successfully achieve objectives.

Team Work:

• Initial – Participates in the team.

• Competent – Involves himself/herself proactively in the team.

• Advanced – Creates a team.

• Expert – Promotes teamwork across departments.

MANAGING PEOPLE:
 

Team Management:

• Initial – Encourages team effectiveness by distributing tasks appropriately.

• Competent – Takes each team member into account when making decisions, as well as the team as a whole.

• Advanced – Demands High performance.

• Expert – His/her team interacts in an optimal way across the organization.

Developing Others:

• Initial – Carries out specific development actions.

• Competent – Performs constant development activities for the team as a whole.

• Advanced – Proposes and carries out individual development activities.

• Expert – Generates a culture of professional development, contributing to the sustained growth of the organization.

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