Financial Analyst Environmental Accounting

POSITION SUMMARY: The Financial Analyst, Environmental Accounting is primarily responsible for managing the Engineering and Environmental Management department financials, helping to administer the multiple department dashboards, and assisting leadership with the day-to-day management of the Company’s environmental sites. The Financial Analyst, Environmental provides direct financial support to the Engineering and Environmental Management department.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Manages, with the help of leadership, the financials for the Engineering and Environmental Management department including: budgeting, opening PO’s, processing payments, reviewing financials and forecasting.

·         Prepares monthly journal entries and performs monthly reconciliations.

·         Creates, generates and reviews reports used in the Company’s monthly close (generally using Essbase, Lawson and Excel).

·         Maintains and modifies multiple department dashboards: Works with the department to upload company-wide statistics into the general ledger. Creates/updates various spreadsheets and data pulls to support the dashboards. Ensures the dashboard is updated properly and makes changes to the dashboard, when deemed necessary.

·         Processes invoices for our environmental sites and approves account coding.

·         Involved in forecasting capital, closure, post-closure and environmental expenditures for the Company.

·         Processes invoices for the environmental sites and approves account coding.

·         Creates and updates spreadsheets and provides analytical support, where needed, to the department.

·         Acts as a liaison between field engineers and various corporate departments.

·         Assists in the corporate budgeting process for landfill and environmental sites.

·         Analyzes landfill and environmental budget models and communicates factors that cause such adjustments to the appropriate parties.

·         Responds to requests from various corporate departments for landfill and environmental related information.

·         Prepares and presents financial information to senior level management on matters related to landfill and environmental accounting.

·         Provides financial analysis and helps support ongoing operational initiatives.

·         Performs other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

·         Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

·         3 years of combined public accounting experience at a Big 4 or Tier II National firm.

·         MBA or other graduate degree.

·         Waste or transportation industry experience.

·         Experience with Lawson accounting.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

·         Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or related field.

·         Minimum of 2 years of combined financial analysis and public or corporate accounting experience.