Vice President - Controller

Bluescape Energy Partners; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluescape Energy Partners seeks an experienced accounting leader to oversee close processes, consolidate multi-entity financials, and deliver insightful reports. You will manage journal entries, intercompany activity, and annual statements while partnering with Tax and FP&A teams. Strong leadership and AI-driven analytics are valued in this role.

The position emphasizes process optimization, internal controls, and collaboration with CFO and auditors to drive accurate, timely financial results.

Qualifications

• 6–15 years of accounting experience with supervisory responsibilities.
• Proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and PDF tooling.
• Experience with multi-entity consolidations in ERP environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities; comfortable with AI/data analytics.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain thorough understanding of financial reporting and general ledger structure.
• Lead timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end close; oversee journal entries and intercompany activity.
• Review/approve AP allocations; approve expense reports.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly reporting packages including budgets and variance analysis.
• Coordinate annual financial statements with Auditors; support tax forecasting.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to optimize workflows using AI/automation.
• Train and develop one analyst; document non-routine transaction treatment.
• Respond to inquiries regarding financial results and special reporting.

Skills

Financial reporting

General ledger

Month-end close

Intercompany reconciliation

Consolidation

Budgeting & variance analysis

AI/automation tools

Team leadership

Communication skills

Data analytics

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Adobe Acrobat

ERP systems / consolidation tools

Job description

• Maintain thorough understanding of financial reporting and general ledger structure
• Lead timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, and oversee maintenance of accounting records including preparing, recording, reviewing journal entries, monitoring intercompany activity, and performing consolidation
• Review/approve accounts payable allocations and review/approve expense reports
• Prepare and maintain monthly/quarterly reporting package including budget, variance analysis, and other balance sheet detail, leveraging AI-driven historical reporting dashboards to surface trends, anomalies, and variance drivers
• Prepare annual financial statements and coordinates with Auditors
• Support Tax and Finance forecasting activities using AI-assisted forecasting models and tax metric analyzers to improve accuracy and scenario planning
• Collaborate with CFO, AP Controller, Treasurer, Corporate Secretary, and Outsourced Tax team to support overall departments projects, goals, and objectives
• Continuously optimize workflow to develop more efficient procedures including identifying and deploying AI/automation tools to streamline close, reconciliation, and reporting processes
• Implement new processes and software AI-enabled accounting, analytics, and document-processing platforms
• Manages, trains, and develops one analyst and provides training to new staff as needed
• Determines and documents treatment of non-routine transactions
• Responds to inquiries regarding financial results and special reporting requests

Tax Workflow Management

• Manage relationship with outsourced Tax team
• Review and route tax communications
• Collect data required for tax preparation including leger reports, K-1s, financial statements, partner's capital statements, etc. utilizing AI-driven document extraction (K-1s, 1099s, partner capital statements) to accelerate data gathering and reduce manual entry
• Assist with quarterly tax estimates and tax forecasting leveraging an AI-driven historical and tax metric dashboard/analyzer to monitor effective tax rates, distributions, and entity-level trends
• Lead annual preparation of 1099s

Requirements

• 6-15 years of Accounting experience including managerial or supervisory experience
• Proficient with Microsoft office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and proficient with Adobe pdf software
• Accounting software/ERP system experience with experience in consolidation of multi-entity structure/environment
• Financial statement preparation and reporting package preparation experience
• Self-starter with ability to prioritize, multi-task, and proactively work autonomously
• Delivery-focused and able to respond to business requests quickly
• Strong analytical skills and excellent problem solving ability including comfort using AI/data-analytics tools to drive insight
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with different stakeholders
• Ability to lead proactively, effectively, and collaboratively in a team environment
• High degree of honesty and integrity
• Strong work ethic

Preferred, But Not Required

• Oil and gas accounting experience
• General understanding of investment accounts, marketable securities, and hedging transactions
• Family office accounting experience
• Experience evaluating and implementing AI and automation tools in an accounting/finance setting (e.g., GL anomaly detection, AI-powered dashboards, LLM-based document processing)