Senior Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Accountant

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About ClearGen

ClearGen Holdings LLC (“ClearGen”) is a capital partner focused on distributed energy infrastructure across North America. Backed by CBRE Investment Management, we provide flexible capital solutions that help developers, sponsors, and asset owners bring projects from late-stage development through operations. Our investments span commercial and industrial solar, community solar, battery energy storage, energy efficiency infrastructure, EV charging, and other distributed energy technologies.

Founded in 2020, ClearGen has grown from an entrepreneurial startup into a rapidly scaling investment platform while maintaining the agility, accountability, and collaborative culture that have defined us from the beginning. Our work is guided by five core values: Empowered, Resourceful, Grounded, Candid, and Rigorous. These values shape how we make decisions, work together, and build lasting partnerships. We believe exceptional results come from exceptional people who take ownership, communicate openly, think creatively, and pursue excellence with humility and discipline.

As our portfolio and transaction volume continue to grow, so do the opportunities for our team. At ClearGen, you’ll work alongside experienced investment professionals in a lean organization where your ideas are heard and your work has a meaningful impact on the company’s success.

About the Job

The Senior Accountant combines hands-on accounting with complex investment transactions and the opportunity to shape how a growing business operates. Working across ClearGen’s multiple entities and investment structures, this person takes ownership of daily accounting activities and executes financial close and reporting. The variety of the work offers opportunities to deepen technical expertise, solve problems, and collaborate across business lines and with external advisors. We work closely across functions and value people who take ownership, treat others with respect, and are willing to help one another succeed. As the business grows, the Senior Accountant will help build the accounting infrastructure to support it. That means evaluating existing processes, identifying opportunities for automation, and leading improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. This role is well suited to someone who brings sound judgment, takes initiative, and is eager to learn and find better ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day accounting operations across multiple entities, including general ledger maintenance, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and account reconciliations.
• Execute month-end and year-end close processes, including preparing journal entries, completing account reconciliations, resolving discrepancies, and ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Maintain accurate accounting records for assigned entities, ensuring transactions, balances, and intercompany activity are recorded in the appropriate entities and reconciled.
• Prepare and record complex journal entries for leases, debt, interest rate swaps, investments, intercompany transactions and eliminations, and equity.
• Research and evaluate the accounting implications of investment transactions and changes in ownership or investment structures, working with internal stakeholders and external advisors as needed.
• Prepare financial statements and supporting schedules at the entity and consolidated levels, as applicable, in accordance with accounting standards and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate external audits and reviews for assigned entities, preparing supporting documentation, reviewing relevant workpapers, responding to inquiries, and resolving outstanding items.
• Work with external tax professionals to support tax planning, reporting, and compliance, including preparing supporting schedules and responding to inquiries.
• Monitor cash balances and cash flow across assigned entities, supporting liquidity planning and timely payment of financial obligations.
• Provide accounting analysis and documentation for acquisition due diligence and incorporate new investments and entities into accounting processes.
• Identify and lead opportunities to automate recurring accounting activities, streamline workflows, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of close and reporting processes.
• Develop and refine accounting procedures, documentation, and internal controls to support

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressively responsible accounting experience, including hands-on responsibility for general ledger accounting, accounts payable, financial close, and financial statement preparation.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and the ability to research accounting questions and apply sound judgment to complex transactions.
• Experience accounting for multiple entities, including intercompany transactions, reconciliations, and consolidations.
• Experience preparing audit schedules and working directly with external auditors and tax professionals.
• Strong Excel skills and proficiency with accounting systems, with the ability to learn and apply new technology.
• Demonstrated ability to improve accounting processes, with an interest in using technology and automation to increase efficiency.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of responsibilities, and follow issues through to resolution.
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with colleagues across functions and external partners.
• Curiosity, learning agility, and comfort working in a growing organization where processes and systems continue to evolve.

Additional Qualifications Valued

• CPA designation or progress toward certification.
• Experience in investment management, financial services, energy, infrastructure, or another business with complex investment and ownership structures.
• Experience accounting for debt, leases, equity investments, joint ventures, or derivatives.
• Experience using accounting automation, reporting tools, or system integrations to reduce manual work and strengthen controls.

Notice to Search Firms and Staffing Agencies

• ClearGen is conducting this search directly and is not accepting agency submissions. Firms may send information to our HR team at View email address on ziprecruiter.com, which we will keep on file for future consideration. Please direct all inquiries to HR and refrain from contacting our leaders or other employees directly.

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Ballantyne) |  Hybrid
Schedule: In office Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; remote Wednesday and Friday. This position is open to Charlotte-area candidates only.