About the Role
The Corporate Accountant is a key member of PetroLedger’s Finance & Accounting team responsible for maintaining accurate financial records and helping ensure the integrity, timeliness, and reliability of the company’s financial reporting. The role independently owns assigned responsibilities across general ledger accounting, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, reconciliations, month-end close, financial reporting, and audit support.
Working closely with the Controller, the Corporate Accountant manages recurring accounting activities from preparation through resolution, exercises sound judgment when investigating discrepancies, and helps strengthen controls, processes, and reporting across the function. This role is well suited for an accounting professional who enjoys detailed accounting work, broad functional ownership, process improvement, and contributing to the financial operations of a growing professional-services organization.
What You'll Do
- Utilize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to process accounting transactions, maintain financial records, and support reporting.
- Own assigned month-end and year-end close activities and complete them accurately within established close timelines.
- Own the customer invoicing process from preparation through completion, including reconciliations, adjustments, accuracy review, distribution, and resolution of billing discrepancies.Â
- Manage accounts receivable activities, including payment application and follow-up on outstanding balances.
- Manage accounts payable activities, including invoice review, coding, approval workflows, payment processing, and vendor accounting records.
- Maintain the integrity of the general ledger and ensure transactions are accurately classified, supported, and recorded in the appropriate period.
- Independently prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, allocations, recurring entries, payroll and benefit entries, and other adjustments.
- Prepare monthly balance-sheet, bank, credit card, and other account reconciliations; research and resolve reconciling items and unusual activity through completion.
- Prepare financial schedules, account analyses, and supporting documentation used in internal and external reporting.
- Maintain fixed-asset records, including capitalization, depreciation, transfers, disposals, and related general ledger reconciliations.
- Prepare and process corporate overhead and departmental expense allocations.
- Prepare and support annual 1099 reporting, maintain vendor tax documentation, and support external audit requests.
- Support payroll administration and accounting, including payroll processing, pre- and post-payroll review, reconciliations, journal entries, and resolution of discrepancies.
- Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes, strengthen controls, reduce manual work, and participate in system enhancements, testing, automation, and special projects.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support team and business needs.
What You Bring
- Strong understanding of general ledger accounting and U.S. GAAP.
- Ability to independently prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules and investigate discrepancies to resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to independently own recurring accounting processes, manage deadlines, investigate discrepancies, and drive assigned work through completion.
- High level of attention to detail and sound judgment when working with payroll and financial data.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and recurring payroll, close, and reporting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication, confidentiality, accountability, and a process-improvement mindset.
Experience, Education & Licenses/Certifications
- Hands-on experience using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central in an accounting environment required.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred.
- Typically 2-5 years of progressive accounting experience in corporate accounting, staff accounting, or a similar role.
- Experience independently preparing journal entries and account reconciliations and owning assigned month-end close activities required.
- Experience with general ledger accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, or payroll accounting strongly preferred.
- Payroll processing, payroll audit, or payroll reconciliation experience strongly preferred.
- CPA designation or active progress toward CPA certification is a plus but not required.
Skills & Systems
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - required.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, PivotTables, reconciliations, and analysis of large datasets.
- General ledger accounting, month-end and year-end close, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
- Payroll processing, audit, accounting, and reconciliation; accounts payable and accounts receivable; fixed-asset accounting.
- Financial reporting support, internal controls, audit documentation, process improvement, and accounting-system optimization.
Why Join PetroLedger?
Build broader technical experience faster by working across different clients, systems, processes, and business environments. At PetroLedger, you’ll work with a variety of clients, accounting functions, and technology platforms while gaining hands-on experience that may be difficult to develop in a single-company environment.
You’ll have opportunities to expand your expertise, learn from experienced energy professionals, take on increasingly complex work, and build a clear path for continued career growth. PetroLedger’s multi-client model gives you exposure to different operating environments, systems, asset structures, and business challenges, allowing you to build broader industry experience than may be available within a single-company role.
Work Environment
At PetroLedger, collaboration, accountability, and client service are at the heart of how we work. We value team members who communicate openly, support one another, take initiative, and contribute positively to a culture built around Integrity, Development, Fun, Communication, Community, and Professionalism.
We look for people who are curious, adaptable, and comfortable working in a dynamic, client-focused energy environment. Successful team members bring strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and a willingness to learn new systems, processes, and areas of the business. Whether supporting a client, improving a process, or helping a teammate solve a challenge, employees are encouraged to take ownership and look for ways to add value.
PetroLedger brings together professionals with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we are committed to maintaining a respectful and inclusive workplace where employees are supported, valued, and given opportunities to grow and contribute.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with multiple plan options
- Company-paid life insurance and supplemental voluntary coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid company holidays plus a floating holiday
- Paid parental leave
- Hybrid and remote work opportunities for eligible roles, based on client and business needs
- Training and professional development opportunities
- Employee recognition programs
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