Senior Accountant - Industrial

About Veolia North America

A subsidiary of Veolia Group, Veolia North America (VNA) offers a full spectrum of water, waste and energy management services, including water, and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has approximately 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent. Please visit our website www.veolianorthamerica.com.

BENEFITS

Veolia's comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental and vision insurance. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement.  Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement. 

Position Purpose: 

The Sr. Accountant is responsible for the completion of various accounting functions and overseeing financial operations in support of the business units.  This includes collaborating with business leaders, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations. Attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and effective communication with both financial and non-financial stakeholders are essential for success in this role.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

• Prepare and/or review monthly journal entries for multiple entities.
• Prepare account reconciliations, analyze the effect of transactions and verify the accounting treatment.
• Review account reconciliations prepared by staff.
• Support business units by conducting preliminary financial statement review and analysis to ensure the accuracy of financial statements.
• Month end consolidated reporting (Vector).
• Assist with the coordination of the annual financial audit.
• Manage, assess and promote continuous improvement of internal processes.
• Ensures Exceptional Service Delivery
  • Focuses on the stakeholder experience.  Meets stakeholder expectations and deadlines. Anticipates the needs of stakeholders and accommodates as appropriate. Takes responsibility for impact on stakeholder satisfaction.  Knows when to proactively escalate issues and keeps stakeholders updated on progress.
• Results Focused.
  • Strong business acumen with strong understanding of financial and performance metrics.  Is driven by, monitors and holds self and others accountable to results and achieving goals.  Judges effectiveness by tangible, quantitative results; derives personal satisfaction from accomplishing measurable outputs.
• Is Resilient.
  • Adapts quickly to disruptions and face challenges while maintaining continuous operations and safeguarding people, assets and overall culture.
• Creates and Implements Innovative Solutions.
  • Demonstrates strong conceptual thinking skills. Thinks outside the box and comes up with innovative solutions that are practical and effective. Develops new and different ways to deal with organizational problems and opportunities. Is prepared to pilot different solutions and attempt unorthodox approaches.
• Develops Technical Competence
  • Seeks to stay abreast of new developments in core competencies and to learn enough about related fields to apply knowledge effectively in the business. Assumes the role of resident expert and serves as a resource to others.

Work Environment

• Office environment.
• Hybrid.
• Limited travel may be requested.

Education/Experience/Background:

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance, and/or Business Administration required.
• At least 7 years of related work experience.
• Prior experience with process improvement/optimization.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrate leadership ability.
• Attention to detail, good planning, organization, and time management skills.
• Must demonstrate ability to work in a team environment and autonomously.
• Willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities.
• Demonstrate strong technical accounting knowledge and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate ingenuity and initiative to coordinate problem resolution, resolve conflicting priorities and to meet assignment deadlines within a team environment.
• Demonstrate ability to prepare accurate, effective and complete written communications.
• Effectively communicate with good verbal, presentation, and listening skills.
• Independently develop solutions to non-recurring problems by analyzing, interpreting and evaluating data.
• Strong PC skills with proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Google Suite and financial systems.
• Ability to handle confidential or sensitive information or issues.
• Ability to lead process and system improvements.

Required Certification/Licenses/Training:

• CPA preferred but not required.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequent long-term periods of sitting while operating the computer.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger press to operate the computer keyboard, calculator and telephone keypad.  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.