Accountant 2

Atmos Energy Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Atmos Energy Corporation seeks an accounting professional to manage monthly journal entries, reconciliations, and close processes. You will prepare and verify reports for regulatory filings and audits, ensuring GAAP compliance and SOX/FERC adherence.

Interaction with internal and external customers is essential. The role requires a Bachelor's in accounting/finance or related field and 2 years of related experience, with additional high school/GED experience optional.

Qualifications

• Requires communication with internal/external customers, verbally and in writing.
• Requires ability to analyze ratios, percentages, and basic statistics.
• Knowledge of GAAP and regulatory requirements (FERC, SOX) is needed.
• Proficiency in creating and reviewing financial documents and reports.

Responsibilities

• Prepares monthly accounting journal entries.
• Prepares monthly account reconciliations.
• Performs processes during the monthly close cycle.
• Creates, updates, reviews, investigates and distributes accounting schedules and reports.
• Prepares and verifies accounting reports for regulatory filings and audits.
• Ensures transactions comply with GAAP and regulatory requirements.
• Provides internal and external customer support when needed.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Regulatory knowledge

GAAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Business Administration

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Accounting software

Job description

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO LIST ALL OF THE DUTIES THAT ARE OR MAY BE PERFORMED IN THIS POSITION

Primary Duties

• Prepares monthly accounting journal entries.
• Prepares monthly account reconciliations.
• Performs processes during the monthly close cycle.
• Creates, updates, reviews, investigates and distributes schedules and financial reports pertaining to various phases of accounting functions.
• Prepares, analyzes and verifies accounting reports and other records to support responses to data requests in connection with regulatory filings and audits.
• Assures that all transactions are properly supported and are in accordance with GAAP, FERC, SOX, and other regulatory requirements.
• Provides internal and external customer support when needed.

Minimum Requirements

Educational/Experience Level: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field and 2 years of related experience in Accounting, or equivalent.

A general educational knowledge normally acquired through a high school diploma or a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and 5 years of related experience in Accounting.

Communication Skills: Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers in order to obtain and/or provide explanations and/or modifications on technical or other complex concepts to individuals with little or no background in the area under discussion, verbally and in writing.

Numeric Skills: Requires the ability to perform analyses involving ratios, percentages and simple statistical methods.

Computer Skills: Requires knowledge of various software applications to create documents, reports and/or graphics.

Physical Demands: Requires occasionally performing activities including, but not limited to, bending, stooping, grasping, reaching, twisting, turning and/or lifting.

Work Conditions: Works in an office environment.

Atmos Energy Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Job Family: Accounting Atmos Energy Corporation, a natural gas-only distributor, is an S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas. We safely deliver reliable, affordable, efficient and abundant natural gas to more than 3 million distribution customers in over 1,400 communities across eight states located primarily in the South. As part of our vision to be the safest provider of natural gas services, we are modernizing our business and infrastructure while continuing to invest in safety, innovation, environmental sustainability and our communities. Atmos Energy manages proprietary pipeline and storage assets, including one of the largest intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas.