What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Manager, Asset Portfolios position at Pivot Energy?
Role Overview
Pivot Energy is at an exciting growth stage, with its first portfolios under ownership coming online. Our Accounting and Finance team is seeking a motivated and self-directed Accounting Manager to manage all the accounting transactions for our solar asset portfolios. This role will work across accounting, asset management, and finance departments to deliver portfolio financial statements, so a collaborative team spirit is crucial.
This position requires technical accounting skills in accordance with GAAP, multi-entity environments, and financial reporting, including audit and tax. The solar industry is exciting and fast-paced, requiring creative thinking and problem-solving skills to succeed. Successful delivery of this position will result in growth for both the individual and Pivot Energy.
Primary Responsibilities
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range for this position is $75,000-$130,000 depending on relevant experience, along with eligibility for the company’s substantial bonus plan, with a target bonus of 30% of annual salary (prorated in the first year based on start date).
Benefits
Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees, placing an emphasis on company culture, and a focus on our people. To that end, Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes:
About Pivot
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work” , we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report .
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
Pivot Energy is at an exciting growth stage, with its first portfolios under ownership coming online. Our Accounting and Finance team is seeking a motivated and self-directed Accounting Manager to manage all the accounting transactions for our solar asset portfolios. This role will work across accounting, asset management, and finance departments to deliver portfolio financial statements, so a collaborative team spirit is crucial.
This position requires technical accounting skills in accordance with GAAP, multi-entity environments, and financial reporting, including audit and tax. The solar industry is exciting and fast-paced, requiring creative thinking and problem-solving skills to succeed. Successful delivery of this position will result in growth for both the individual and Pivot Energy.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the solar asset accounting team, ensuring compliance and overseeing the reporting processes for solar asset portfolios including Tax Equity Partnerships, and Tax Credit Seller portfolios.
- Spearhead the month-end close process, including the review and approval of journal entries for all solar asset portfolios, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
- Maintain and reconcile each portfolio’s balance sheet and general ledger accounts
- Lead the timely and accurate preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual GAAP-compliant external financial reports for auditors, investors, and lenders
- Manage the annual tax return and tax provision preparation in collaboration with the external tax preparer and external tax provision preparer, respectively
- Work closely with external auditors, preparing and providing necessary documentation and support to ensure a smooth and timely audit process in collaboration with the Accounting Director
- Perform other accounting duties as required or assigned
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 7 years of professional experience in accounting and finance
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent leadership and supervisory abilities
- Strong proficiency in MS Excel and Sage Intacct or equivalent accounting software
- Must be detail-oriented with hands-on execution capability
- 2 years of energy industry experience
- Self-starter with strong self-motivation and a proven capacity to work in a fast-paced, highly fluid environment
- Prior experience in the solar industry and tax equity portfolios a plus
- Familiarity with Sage Intacct
- CPA license a plus
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range for this position is $75,000-$130,000 depending on relevant experience, along with eligibility for the company’s substantial bonus plan, with a target bonus of 30% of annual salary (prorated in the first year based on start date).
Benefits
Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees, placing an emphasis on company culture, and a focus on our people. To that end, Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes:
- Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company
- Four weeks of vacation plus employment milestone bonus vacations
- Company-paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage
- Generous parental leave
- 401(k) matching (after the vesting period)
- Work-from-home stipend for new employees
- Public transit reimbursement
- PTO for volunteering in the community
- Charitable donations matching up to $500/year
- Professional development and educational reimbursements
About Pivot
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work” , we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report .
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
- Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
- Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
- Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
- Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
- Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
- Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
Salary : $75,000 - $130,000
