Senior Accounting Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution. Become a Corporate Accounting Senior Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. This position resides in the Corporate Accounting group within the Finance organization. The successful candidate will manage the cross‑functional financial close process and will be responsible for accounting, reconciliations, reporting and analyses for a variety of critical areas, including intercompany activities, employee pensions and benefits, accounting accruals, lease accounting, and operational accounting support (payroll, AP and AR). In addition, the Senior Accounting Manager will design, manage and implement accounting policies, new processes and process improvements that have significant financial and regulatory implications. Leads financial reporting and close processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and alignment with GAAP, FERC, and other regulatory requirements while providing strategic insights and presentations to senior leadership. Establishes and maintains strong internal controls and proactively addresses emerging accounting and regulatory changes to ensure ongoing compliance. Manages and develops a team of 7–10 employees, overseeing performance, resource planning, and key employment decisions to support organizational goals. Drives operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives while contributing to senior leadership efforts and supporting audits, system enhancements, and special projects. Responsibilities Directs account reconciliations and monthly close entries and investigates variances within assigned areas of responsibility. Guarantees all account reconciliations meet internal control requirements and are completed on time. Manages the production of internal financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement) and arranges all research regarding year‑over‑year variances. Ensures internal control documentation is updated regularly and in a timely manner and prepares action plans to remediate identified weaknesses by coordinating with all Accounting departments. Guarantees the Accounting area complies with all internal control requirements. Oversees the Fixed Asset System, including posting and tracking depreciation, ensuring new items meet Capital policy requirements, retiring assets through comprehensive reviews and proper approvals, and maintaining the system regularly. Drives initiatives to improve processes across the Accounting area, identifying opportunities for efficiency and workload reduction. Prepares budgets by establishing procedures and controls and conducting ongoing financial forecasting. Publishes monthly procurement reports and oversees purchases while promoting long‑term cost savings. Identifies and implements improvement projects for processes, cash yield, and cost‑to‑collect. Provides support in preparing materials for finance and audit committee meetings, including consulting with external auditors on reporting and accounting matters. Ensures the protection of all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets and properly manages private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other highly sensitive information with the highest standards of conduct and integrity. A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity. Minimum Qualifications Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management. Experience performing or overseeing accounting or finance functions. Preferred Qualifications Master’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or similar discipline. Five or more years of experience managing or supervising accounting, finance, tax or regulatory functions. CPA certification (active or inactive) Experience leading complex, cross‑functional projects with accountability for scope, schedule, cost, and quality outcome. Experience with SAP ERP system. Experience with utility or regulated industry. Experience developing strategic plans and policies in a financial environment. Experience developing and implementing accounting and management reporting processes, systems, and procedures. Experience with accounting for complex employee benefit programs. Strong leadership, communication (written/verbal), presentation skills and negotiating skills to build consensus with stakeholders to develop and maintain partnerships with support organizations and senior management. Ability to accurately analyze information and make strategic decisions that have cross‑organizational impact. Ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to enhance customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers. Effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation. Additional Information This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs. Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at View email address on click.appcast.io or View phone number on click.appcast.io and select option 2. #J-18808-Ljbffr