Senior Accountant - R2R/ General Ledger

About the Company

Company OverviewBrightNight is a high-growth renewable power developer and Independent Power Producer (IPP) with a 30-gigawatt portfolio spanning 20 U.S. states. The company develops innovative, dispatchable, and hybrid energy solutions that deliver reliable, cost-efficient renewable power to utilities, data centers, and other high-demand customers across fast-growing energy markets. Supported by strong financial partners, including Goldman Sachs, experienced industry leadership, and proprietary capabilities such as PowerAlpha®, BrightNight is scaling rapidly while differentiating itself through an AI-enabled, automation-driven approach to project development and operations. For candidates, BrightNight offers the opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility, work directly with experienced industry leaders, and grow alongside a company with real momentum and ambitious plans for the future. We're building a company where intelligence is built in, not bolted on. It is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where smart, curious people can make an outsized impact, grow quickly, and help shape the future of reliable clean energy.

About the Role

Job SummaryWe are looking for a detail-oriented accounting professional with hands-on Record-to-Report (R2R) and General Ledger experience. The Senior Accountant will own and execute core accounting activities from transaction processing through month-end close, ensuring accurate postings, timely reconciliations, strong supporting documentation, and audit-ready records. The role requires practical experience across banking, journal preparation and posting, balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, fixed assets, audit support, and close activities in a deadline-driven environment.

Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• Banking & Cash Accounting
• Record and review daily and periodic bank transactions, including transfers, deposits, withdrawals, fees, and other cash-related activity.
• Perform bank postings and monitor cash movements for completeness, accuracy, and appropriate accounting treatment.
• Prepare bank reconciliations, investigate unreconciled items, track aging, and drive timely resolution with relevant stakeholders.

Journal Preparation & Posting

• Prepare and post accurate journal entries with complete supporting documentation and clear accounting rationale.
• Process accruals, prepayments, recurring journals, reclassifications, corrections, and other month-end or ad hoc entries.
• Review journal batches and postings for completeness, correct period, appropriate approvals, and compliance with accounting policies.

Balance Sheet Reconciliations

• Prepare, maintain, and review balance sheet account reconciliations and supporting schedules in line with the close calendar.
• Analyze reconciling items, unusual balances, and aged open items; coordinate corrective actions and follow through to closure.
• Ensure reconciliations are complete, accurate, properly supported, and available for management review and audit.

Intercompany Accounting

• Prepare and post intercompany invoices, journals, reclassifications, and settlement entries across entities.
• Perform intercompany reconciliations, confirmations, and mismatch investigations; coordinate resolution with counterparties.
• Support timely settlement and clearing of intercompany balances and maintain appropriate documentation for each transaction.

Fixed Asset Accounting

• Record and maintain fixed asset additions, transfers, disposals, retirements, and related accounting entries.
• Review capitalization support, useful lives, depreciation, and asset classifications for completeness and accuracy.
• Reconcile the fixed asset subledger to the General Ledger and prepare supporting schedules for close and audit requirements.

Month-End, Quarter-End & Year-End Close

• Execute assigned close activities according to the close calendar, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, cut-off checks, and review of open items.
• Support timely close reporting by maintaining status trackers, escalating issues, and ensuring deliverables meet reporting deadlines.
• Assist with account analysis, variance review, reclassifications, and preparation of close support packs.

Audit Support, Controls & Process Improvement

• Provide schedules, reconciliations, transaction support, and other documentation for internal and external audits.
• Maintain a clear audit trail and follow company accounting policies, internal controls, and applicable accounting standards.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and improve R2R processes, reconciliations, and reporting activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field.
• Semi-qualified accounting certification such as CA, ACCA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent is an advantage.

Required Skills

• 4–5 years of relevant experience in Record-to-Report, General Ledger, or equivalent accounting operations.
• Strong hands-on experience in bank accounting, bank postings, cash accounting, and bank reconciliations.
• Practical experience preparing and posting journals, including accruals, prepayments, recurring journals, reclasses, and corrections.
• Experience preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, supporting schedules, and account analysis.
• Working knowledge of intercompany preparation, postings, reconciliations, confirmations, and settlement activities.
• Working knowledge of fixed asset accounting, depreciation, asset movements, and subledger-to-GL reconciliation.
• Experience supporting month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close in a deadline-driven environment.
• Experience providing audit schedules, evidence, and responses with strong documentation discipline.
• Sound understanding of accounting principles, debit/credit concepts, cut-off, and financial controls.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with Treasury, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, FP&A, Tax, and other cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including PivotTables, lookups, formulas, and reconciliation of large datasets.
• Experience with an ERP or accounting system such as