Director of Accounting | West Palm Beach FL | Leading Utilities Company

Director of Accounting | West Palm Beach FL | Leading Utilities Company

Our team is working with a leading diversified utilities company looking to hire a Director of Accounting within their growing West Palm Beach division. The Director of Accounting is responsible for leading all accounting activities for the Company’s utility operations, including Florida-based regulated entities. This role ensures accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and compliance with the U.S. GAAP, FERC Uniform System of Accounts, and applicable state regulatory requirements. The Director serves as a key accounting partner to Regulatory, Operations, and Finance leadership, with a strong focus on rate case support, capital investment accounting, and finance transformation initiatives, including ERP implementation.
 

This role is a full time remote focused role in which there is 1 day in office that is required that will offer between 160-175K base, 20% bonus, & strong benefits. If you are interested in this opportunity, please reach out to Vincenzo Kulturides directly at vkulturides@daleyaa.com
 

Responsibilities:

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close processes for southern regulated utility entities. 

• Ensure accurate accounting for utility plant, depreciation, asset retirement obligations, regulatory assets and liabilities, and cost of service activities. 

• Oversee compliance with FERC accounting, state commission requirements, and U.S. GAAP, including maintenance of appropriate documentation and workpapers.

• Support preparation of regulatory financial schedules, data requests, and testimony support for rate cases and other regulatory filings.

• Partner closely with Regulatory Affairs to support rate cases, including cost of service, plant-in-service support, and regulatory accounting positions.

• Ensure consistency between regulatory reporting, financial statements, and underlying accounting records.

• Provide accounting input on regulatory strategy, new programs, and infrastructure investment recovery mechanisms.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of regulated accounting managers and staff.

• Maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with SOX and company policies. Serve as a primary accounting contact, for internal and external auditors for regulated entities.

• Actively support the Company’s ERP implementation and finance transformation, including design, testing, and deployment of regulated accounting processes.

• Drive standardization and automation of accounting processes across southern regulated operations.

• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Regulatory, FP&A, and Tax to ensure alignment on financial impacts of capital programs and operational initiatives.
   

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance 

• CPA preferred

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership responsibility.

• Strong experience in regulated utility accounting, including FERC and state regulatory environments.

• Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and regulated plant accounting.

• Experience with regulated and unregulated business models, including utility accounting.

• Solid understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

• Familiarity with internal controls (SOX/COSO), audit processes, and risk management.

• Working knowledge of ERP systems and coordination with tax and audit teams.

• Proven financial and technical accounting leadership.

• Experience driving process improvements, policy development, and system changes.

• Prior rate case support experience (preferred).

• ERP implementation experience (SAP strongly preferred)