Joint Venture Accounting Lead Solar Finance

Qcells USA Corp.; California; On-site; USD 124,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EnFin, a financial services firm, seeks an Accounting Manager to lead JV accounting and GAAP financial reporting for residential solar financing ventures. You will own the JV ledger, manage audits, and coordinate budgets and tax matters with cross-functional teams.

You’ll drive process improvements, optimize treasury mechanics, and ensure compliance with GAAP across joint ventures while handling complex, fast-paced reporting calendars and external stakeholder communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related area.
• 5-8 years progressive accounting, financial reporting, and finance experience or equivalent.
• Experience with partnership or joint-venture accounting, including capital account maintenance and allocations.
• Experience working with ERP systems and databases.
• Ability to execute in a dynamic, fast-paced, and demanding environment against fixed, contractual deadlines.
• Ability to influence across the company and interact at all levels, including with external institutional partners.
• Knowledge of accounting for residential solar assets, including construction, leases, and PPA/servicing arrangements.
• Experience with internal controls and process improvement.
• Excellent organizational, communication, problem-solving, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills.
• Experience with revenue recognition policies and technical accounting.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP financial reporting for joint ventures and equity-method investees.
• Strong Excel, data sorting, and manipulation skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and Power Query.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a recurring, multi-party reporting calendar with hard contractual deadlines.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented and fast-paced environment under strict deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own the joint venture's general ledger and books and records, maintained separately from other EnFin-affiliated entities.
• Prepare quarterly unaudited and annual audited consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP and manage the annual audit process.
• Assist in preparation of the joint venture's annual operating budget and maintain the underlying financial model.
• Oversee cash sweep and treasury mechanics between servicing accounts and joint venture accounts.
• Support Schedule K-1 preparation and other partnership-level tax matters with the tax team.
• Coordinate with tax for sales tax management on underlying assets.
• Track and reconcile milestone and true-up payments under project purchase agreements.
• Review and reconcile monthly O&M/servicer reporting packages and invoices.
• Establish processes for key deliverables and drive process improvements for scale.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to understand key processes within operations.
• Drive process change and automation while ensuring GAAP compliance.
• Assist with EnFin’s revenue recognition for projects sold to the JV.

Skills

GAAP reporting

Joint venture accounting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Process improvement

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance

Tools

ERP systems

NetSuite

Power Query

Job description

EnFin, a financial services firm, seeks an Accounting Manager to lead JV accounting and GAAP financial reporting for residential solar financing ventures. You will own the JV ledger, manage audits, and coordinate budgets and tax matters with cross-functional teams.

You’ll drive process improvements, optimize treasury mechanics, and ensure compliance with GAAP across joint ventures while handling complex, fast-paced reporting calendars and external stakeholder communications.