Accounting Manager – Joint Venture Reporting

Overview

This role involves leading financial and servicing reporting for joint ventures that acquire and hold residential solar and battery storage assets, including participation in recurring multi-party reporting tied to hard contractual deadlines.

The Accounting Manager will own joint venture books and records and manage GAAP financial reporting, including preparation of quarterly unaudited and annual audited consolidated financial statements. The position also supports treasury mechanics, partnership tax deliverables, operational reporting review (including O&M/servicer packages), and coordination with internal stakeholders and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the joint venture’s general ledger and books and records, maintained separately from other affiliated entities in accordance with each joint venture’s operating agreement.
• Prepare quarterly unaudited and annual audited consolidated financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and statement of members’ equity) in accordance with GAAP.
• Manage the annual audit process with the joint venture’s independent certified public accountants.
• Assist in preparation of the joint venture’s annual operating budget and maintain the underlying financial model, tracking actuals against budget and flagging variances for management reporting.
• Oversee cash sweep and treasury mechanics between servicing collection accounts and joint venture operating/distribution accounts, including monitoring depositary bank qualification requirements.
• Support Schedule K-1 preparation, IRS notices, and other partnership-level tax matters, including tracking tax elections and their effect on capital accounts alongside the organization’s tax team.
• Coordinate with the tax team for sales tax management for underlying purchased assets.
• Track and reconcile milestone and true-up payments under project purchase agreements against purchase price obligations.
• Review and reconcile monthly O&M/servicer reporting packages and invoices, including validation of non-covered services fees and pass-through costs prior to payment.
• Establish processes for key deliverables and lead continuous improvement activities to achieve effective and efficient execution.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams (e.g., Legal, Tax, Financial Planning and Analysis, Asset Management) to understand key operational processes.
• Drive process change and efficiencies by optimizing processes, identifying opportunities for automation, and building for scale—ensuring solutions comply with GAAP and organizational policies.
• Embrace the use of artificial intelligence to drive process efficiencies.
• Assist with revenue recognition (and related accounting) for projects sold to the joint venture.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related area.
• 5–8 years of progressive accounting, financial reporting, and finance experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 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, demanding environment against fixed, contractual deadlines.
• Ability to influence across the organization 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 skills, including data sorting and manipulation (pivot tables, lookups, Power Query).
• Demonstrated ability to manage a recurring, multi-party reporting calendar with hard contractual deadlines.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented, fast-paced environment under strict deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA license.
• Experience with NetSuite.
• Prior experience in solar, renewable energy, tax equity, or asset-backed/structured finance accounting.
• Experience working with or managing outsourced service or O&M vendors and reconciling third-party invoices.
• Accounting and data automation experience, including macro and artificial intelligence experience.
• “Big Four” experience.

Compensation & Benefits

In accordance with applicable pay transparency laws, the anticipated annual base salary for this position is:

• Zone 1 (Bay Area, NYC): $165,770 – $248,655
• Zone 2 (CA, NJ, NY): $150,700 – $226,050
• Zone 3 (All others): $137,000 – $205,500

The applicable salary range is based on the employee’s primary work location. Individual compensation will be determined based on qualifications, relevant experience, education, skills, internal equity, and other business-related factors.

Location

• This role has salary zones based on primary work location: Zone 1 (Bay Area, NYC), Zone 2 (CA, NJ, NY), Zone 3 (All others).
• Periodic travel and site visits may be required.

Additional Information

This position requires the ability to perform essential job functions, with or without reasonable accommodation.