This is a growing Team and various new opportunities on the Regulatory Accounting Team available.
Principal-level individual contributor responsible for enterprise-level regulatory accounting leadership, technical judgement, and governance over the most complex regulatory reporting, rate-case support, commission data requests, audits, investigations, and compliance matters.
Operates with a high degree of independence and influence, leads significant or precedent-setting deliverables, advises senior leaders on accounting and reporting implications, and shapes the regulatory reporting operating model, controls, data integrity, automation, and documentation standards.
Accountabilities
- Lead the most complex and high-risk regulatory filings, rate-case support activities, audits, investigations, and commission data requests across assigned jurisdictions or business areas.
- Serve as principal financial and regulatory accounting advisor for significant proceedings, complex data responses, regulatory accounting matters, and cross-functional regulatory initiatives.
- Establish standards for source-to-file traceability, workpaper quality, reviewer evidence, documentation retention, control alignment, and regulator-ready support packages.
- Provide final technical review and quality assurance over complex schedules, exhibits, reconciliations, testimony support, regulatory responses, and filing support prepared by Analysts I, II, and III.
- Interpret and advise on FERC USOA, NARUC guidance, ASC 980 considerations, regulatory assets and liabilities, cost allocations, rate recovery mechanisms, affiliate transactions, and jurisdiction-specific reporting expectations.
- Anticipate and resolve complex data, accounting, reporting, mapping, control, and documentation issues that could affect filings, audits, compliance readiness, or stakeholder confidence.
- Partner with Regulatory Affairs, Legal, FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Audit, business operations, consultants, expert witnesses, and senior finance leaders.
- Advise leadership on regulatory reporting risks, emerging requirements, accounting implications of regulatory orders, organisational changes, system implementations, and transformation initiatives.
- Design and lead improvements to governance, data management, controls, account mapping, filing calendars, request tracking, workflow automation, and recurring support processes.
- Develop playbooks, templates, quality standards, training materials, and knowledge-transfer routines for the regulatory accounting analyst team.
- Mentor Analysts I, II, and III through technical coaching, review feedback, issue-resolution guidance, and professional development support.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field.
- Eight to ten or more years of progressive experience in accounting, regulatory accounting, utility accounting, financial reporting, audit, rate-case support, or related finance roles.
- Advanced knowledge of US GAAP, utility accounting, regulatory accounting, regulatory assets and liabilities, cost allocation principles, and financial reporting controls.
- Extensive experience supporting complex regulatory filings, rate cases, audits, commission data requests, FERC/NARUC reporting, or jurisdictional proceedings.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret complex accounting and regulatory reporting requirements and translate them into defensible workpapers and filing support.
- Advanced Excel, data reconciliation, analytical, and financial systems skills, including large data sets and multi-source reporting environments.
- Experience with SAP, Hyperion/HFM, Workiva, Power BI, PowerPlan, BlackLine, Analysis for Office, or comparable platforms.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage competing regulatory priorities, and lead complex deliverables with limited direction.
Liberty
Ontario Canada
www.libertyutilities.com


