Manager, Property Accounting

Litchfield Park, AZ, US, 85340

**At** **Algonquin-Liberty** **, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.**

**Purpose**

The Manager, Property Accounting, supports the Property and Fixed Asset Accounting functions for all of Liberty Utilities electric, gas and water/wastewater companies managed within the U.S. and Canadian East Region. This position will play a critical role in managing the fixed asset accounting month-end closing processes and regulatory rate cases, data requests, and compliance reporting. The incumbent must have the ability to thrive in team-orientated environments and ensure a high degree of accountability, visibility, and understanding as it relates to fixed asset accounting, reporting and operational performance of the organization.

**Accountabilities**

+ Responsible for the review of month-end accounting system processes for fixed asset accounting functions, oversight of monthly variance analyses, regulatory and FP&A support, and high level of interactions with the Operations and Engineering teams

+ Strong ability to take initiative, manage multiple projects successfully while maintaining commitment to deadlines.

+ Provide leadership to the Property Accounting Team. Review work and provide feedback, training, mentorship, and development of direct reports.

+ Build and maintain strong relationships and effective communication with key stakeholders and functional partners.

+ Deliver key performance measures and operational metrics to the leadership team.

**Education and Experience**

+ University - Bachelor degree or equivalent

+ CPA preferred but not a must.

+ Solid understanding of principles of accounting, finance, and management accounting required. U.S. public utility sector finance experience required.

+ Ability to manage teams and ensure performance at a high level in a continuous improvement environment.

+ Highly effective communication skills with the ability to present information, create reports, business correspondence, and respond to questions from regulators and management.

+ Strong business knowledge with proven ability to provide strategic solutions to complex problems required.

+ Ability to manage projects and meet deadlines.

+ Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

+ Knowledge of SAP S/4 Hana and PowerPlan is desired.

+ Ability to periodically travel

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.

As the successful candidate

Our Mission

We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization—it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.

Our Vision

We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It's where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we'll make animpact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.

Our Guiding Principles

+ Customer Centric

+ Integrity

+ Entrepreneurial

+ Teamwork

+ Owner mindset

+ Outcome focused

+ Continuous learning

**What we offer**

Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy

401k Plan with matching

Company funded Pension program

Share purchase/match plan

Leadership Development Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

Free parking

Variety of Health & Wellness programs

Discount and Perks program

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honour this commitment in their daily responsibilities.