Consumers Energy

Accounting Manager

• Performs technical accounting research activities in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requirements.
• Helps identify accounting implications in support of regulated businesses as well as development initiatives.
• Performs accounting and financial reporting activities for retirement and postretirement benefit plans, share-based compensation accounting, derivative accounting, accounting for contingent liabilities, and other technical accounting areas.
• Supports the accounting research function for new transactions, including complex transactions such as leases, financial instruments, consolidations, and joint ventures; documents conclusions in accounting research and policy memoranda.
• Participates in the implementation of new accounting pronouncements including participation in cross-functional teams to assess the impact of and implement new accounting guidance.
• Performs accounting and financial reporting for retirement and postretirement benefit plans; works as a key team member to develop assumptions for actuarial valuations, coordinates with actuaries, and participates in the preparation and audit of the employee benefit plans.
• Performs accounting and financial reporting for other complex technical accounting areas including share-based compensation, derivatives and hedging, contingent liabilities, leases, and others.
• Provides support to parent company, Fortis Inc., on complex accounting matters, implementation of new accounting standards, and ITC's accounting policies for various technical areas.
• Performs initial review of new contracts to assess financial and accounting implications, including embedded derivatives, and leases to ensure accounting is in accordance with GAAP and FERC standards.
• Assists with assessing and implementing technology solutions to support the accounting for complex transactions, as needed.
• Supports/coordinates Sarbanes Oxley compliance for certain accounting and research areas.
• Supports special projects and ad-hoc requests as needed.

Accountant – Accounting Policy, Research

Logistics Specialist

• Coordinates and monitors daily/weekly outbound deliveries from the warehouses.
• Maintains all activities in work management system.
• Interfaces with field operations on delivery requests and concerns.
• Responsible for coordinating inbound deliveries to all the warehouses.
• Responsible for obtaining oversized permits.
• Knowledge of heavy equipment.
• Knowledge of off road equipment.
• Understanding of State and Local transportation laws.
• DOT compliance.
• Single and annual move permits.
• Emergency permitting.
• Reviews and reports last minute deliveries.
• Addresses inbound delivery issues with Supply Chain and vendors.
• Monitors mat movement for all business units
• Coordinates mat delivery to and from projects
• Monitors equipment rental activities scheduled in work management system.
• Interface with fleet management systems to track ITC assets.
• Creates driver weekly/monthly safety scorecards.
• Creates weekly and monthly reporting on fleet activities.
• Responsible for assisting in daily fleet actives.

Community Manager

• Develops, maintains, and enhances relationships with area community groups and local government officials.
• Implements corporate strategy to support operational initiatives as they relate to capital projects and community relations.
• Negotiates with local government when public policies/rules/ordinances impact the Company’s business.
• Implements corporate initiatives within the Operating Company business plan, includes capital project approvals.
• Cultivates relationships with community organizations to promote an understanding of company mission and values.
• Conducts public open houses, informational meetings, and leadership summits for project approvals.
• Provides technical guidance for routing transmission lines and siting substations.
• Prepares and obtains building permits for company projects.
• Assists with identification and review of charitable giving opportunities.
• Takes on special projects to support corporate objectives.

Area Manager – Govt & Community Affairs

Account Manager

• Develops and implements plans to build customer support and credibility for the Company and its activities.
• Facilitates collaborative meetings with customers on agenda topics, relevant issues and measuring and monitoring effectiveness.
• Develops, maintains and manages positive business relationships with customers' senior level managers and other key decision makers, through understanding customer operations and energy-related applications and concerns.
• Assists Stakeholders in their building/facility expansions by facilitating interactions with corporate personnel regarding energy-related construction issues, substation issues, sub-transmission and transmission issues, changes in their load profiles.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers by communicating proactively through one-on-one meetings, routine phone calls and responding to special requests. Monitors customers' industries for changing needs.
• Works closely with the Project Management and Field Supervisors groups to coordinate required equipment outages to allow for system changes and upgrades at Stakeholder facilities.
• Negotiates with outage coordination department and Stakeholder’s to mitigate risk to customers by identifying opportunities to reduce exposure.
• Minimizes equipment shutdowns by developing a long-term equipment outage schedule for periodic maintenance and capital projects.
• Ensures that all customer requests are thoroughly explored, reviewed by appropriate management and provided options in a timely manner.
• Monitors legislative and regulatory developments in wholesale electric transmission industry. Identifies issues that affect company customers, makes recommendations and prepares communications to customers.
• Maintains the Company customer information in internal systems.
• Facilitates and leads meetings with various customers and supports company advocacy efforts. Prepares presentation material dependent on audience and messages to be delivered.
• Develops or enhances procedures that provide benefits to the company's customers.
• Provides support to Company departments including assistance in community events, scheduling outages, facilitating meetings and supporting communication efforts.
• Translates external customer requirements to match the Company's systems including outage communications and interconnection requests.
• Coordinates planned equipment outages that impact generation output with generation operators at key substations. Work with Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) facilities to support their ability to operate.
• Maintains and increases personal knowledge of the transmission system and its equipment by participating in tabletop exercises, direct study, seminars, system simulation exercises and field visits.
• Competent in multi-tasking (i.e., ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks, issues or projects that may include high visibility initiatives and require innovation, teamwork and planning).
• Ability to understand and improve processes such as the Equipment Outage Request (EOR) and communication to Stakeholder.

Safety Specialist

• Responsible for promoting a safe working environment by creating, administrating and maintaining an effective safety program designed to help prevent incidents, illnesses and injuries.
• Responsible for monitoring and assessing the safety programs of personnel working for ITC to assure compliance with company safety practices, procedures, as well as industry best practices.
• Responsible for monitoring and assessing contractors for compliance to all federal, state and local occupational safety standards where applicable.
• Communicates ITC safety rules, practices, procedures and expectations to all employees and contractors working on company property.
• Designs, develops, implements the organization's health and safety programs and procedures to safeguard employees, contractors and general public and to ensure that all facilities are compliant with regulations.
• Conducts studies and investigations to ensure compliance with government safety and health laws, standards and regulations.
• Conducts jobsite audits, Energy-Based Evaluations, and reviews to measure contractor compliance.
• Leads regularly scheduled meetings with assigned contractors or employees to review observations, incidents, and trends associated.
• Provides safety performance measures, conducts follow up investigations and determines root cause analysis of an event.
• Maintains professional relationships with outside agencies such as Edison Electric Institute (EEI), National Safety Council and other safety-related agencies.
• Represents the company safety program internally and externally.
• Develops and maintains productive relationships with assigned contractors.
• Able to represent Manager when needed.

Senior Safety Specialist

Administration

• Responsible for administering, designing, implementing, and managing secure reliable, scalable system-to-system data integrations across the enterprise.
• Develops and enforces data governance and building Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes.
• Administers, designs, develops, and maintains application-to-application integrations using APIs REST/SOAP, file-based interfaces SFTP/FTP, and database connections.
• Builds and supports ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data between systems.
• Develops and consumes RESTful APIs and web services using standard data formats JSON, XML.
• Implements data mappings, transformations, and validation rules to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of exchanged data.
• Writes and optimizes SQL queries, stored procedures, and data extraction logic in support of integrations.
• Collaborates with functional teams, analysts, and application owners to translate business requirements into technical integration solutions.
• Troubleshoots and resolves integration defects, data issues, and interface failures.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation, including interface specifications, data mappings, integration flow diagrams, configuration workbooks, design documents, and knowledge materials.
• Supports testing activities, including unit, system, and regression testing, for integration solutions.
• Ensures integrations follow security, data governance, and coding standards.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including certificate-based authentication.

ERP Administrator – Integrations

Compliance

• Manages federal regulatory activities, including transmission policy development, tariffs and regulatory proceedings for transmission operations, capital projects and business expansion opportunities.
• Advocates for and shapes transmission policy to create a regulatory climate to support business unit operations.
• Drives formulation of regulatory strategy for engagement in transmission policy and regulatory proceedings for the company.
• Responsible for effectively managing relationships with internal and external constituents, ensuring a strong reputation for the department and company.
• Represents the company at the Federal Regulatory Commission, state regulatory commissions, trade coalitions, industry associations, Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) committees, industry events and conferences, stakeholder meetings and other venues.

Manager, Regulatory Strategy

Systems Engineer

• Designs substation physical security systems.
• Provides technical support to field personnel and contractors in the installation, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of SCADA systems, fiber optics, Ethernet networking, serial communication and physical security systems.
• Evaluates, develops, and implements new components, software, and processes to support SCADA, ethernet/serial communications, access control and surveillance systems.
• Collaborates with other engineers, departments and utilities to maintain project schedules.
• Attends meetings and training sessions to increase professional knowledge and skills.
• Performs NERC CIP compliance activities for department assets.
• Develops and maintains effective policies, procedures and work instructions.
• Maintains electronic records pertaining to all physical security applications in accordance with policy.

Engineer – Substation Systems Support, All Levels

• Serves as an accounting subject matter expert with a deep understanding of accounting principles, strong project management and analytical skills and the ability to understand and lead complex projects.
• Leads the project management and accounting support of various traditional and non-traditional business opportunities, including reviewing and assessing the accounting, financial reporting and tax implications of and recommending key decisions.
• Opportunities include mergers & acquisitions, competitive bidding, partnerships, compliance initiatives, assessment of current processes, identifying and implementing continuous improvements and efficiencies, and other ad hoc assignments.
• Serves as a key resource to the organization and requires building relationships both within Accounting and Finance as well as other departments within the company.
• In addition, assists in influencing decision makers outside of the accounting department based on the Company’s strategic, economical and operational goals.
• Leads evaluation of accounting impacts of certain projects and supports the execution of projects around acquisitions, competitive bidding, greenfield development projects and customer business solution opportunities while ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Performs research and benchmarking on complex accounting matters, including accounting methodologies, revenue recognition, lease and acquisition accounting, and joint venture structuring, among other topics as they arise.
• Prepares technical accounting memos and supports the resolution of complex financial reporting issues.
• Assists in coordination and acts as liaison with internal and external specialists and subject matter experts regarding all aspects of assigned projects.
• Supports the review, development and implementation of updated processes, procedures and accounting policies specific to special projects and strategic initiatives.
• Leads the identification of accounting risks and potential threats to projects and proactively communicates timelines.
• Supports the partnership with various business leaders to engage, analyze and communicate complex accounting and business ideas to drive modeling scenarios and to evaluate business trends and opportunities.
• Supports managing multiple complex projects and/or initiatives and assists in all accounting aspects of the project lifecycle.
• Ensures adherence to internal controls and regulatory/audit requirements.
• Maintains awareness of industry best practices and stays updated on emerging industry trends, and regulatory changes.
• Builds high trust relationships and interacts with company's business leaders.
• Fosters and maintains working relationships with partners, customers, third-party consultants, and stakeholders.
• Leads all accounting aspects of project life-cycle and engages other accounting directors and managers as appropriate.

Lead Accountant, Accounting Strategy and Initiatives

Analyst

• Supports the debt management process, including the development and evaluation of short- and long-term financing strategies, as well as the execution of financings through preparation of offering materials, investor presentations, and coordination of investor, bank, and legal due diligence.
• Maintains accurate records of all debt-related activities and transactions.
• Performs and reviews complex financial analyses related to debt issuances, refinancing opportunities, regulatory filings, and strategic initiatives.
• Develops presentations for senior management, banks, rating agencies, and investors.
• Prepares and processes journal entries and account reconciliations in support of the accounting close process.
• Prepares debt-related analyses and deliverables for the accounting close process, as well as SEC and FERC reporting.
• Maintains credit metric calculations and monitors changes to methodologies used by rating agencies to determine credit ratings.
• Supports the execution of interest rate risk management strategies.
• Develops and maintains relationships with key stakeholders, including investors, banks, rating agencies, and internal teams, to facilitate effective debt management and communication.
• Prepares and distributes debt compliance deliverables by required due dates.
• Manages multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Manager of Debt Capital Markets and Assistant Treasurer.

Senior Treasury Analyst, Debt Capital Markets

Accountant

• Oversees and performs complex accounting activities related to the data collection, analysis, billing, and recording of transmission service revenues across multiple operating companies.
• Leads and executes processes related to formula rate true-ups, regulatory accounting, settlements, and revenue requirement support.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in transmission settlements, regulatory accounting, and Regional Transmission Organization (“RTO”) related billing activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Prepares, analyzes, and reconciles monthly billed revenue, aspects of the formula rate true-up, and other data relevant to transmission revenues and regulatory accounting.
• Maintains and administers spreadsheets used to compute network and billing loads, including tracking historical load changes.
• Creates and manages revenue models for joint zone revenue distribution and billed revenue recording within the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and Southwest Power Pool (SPP).
• Leads and/or participates in the annual actual protocols process for MISO and SPP, coordinating with Finance and Regulatory teams.
• Supports management’s assessment of the company’s ability to apply regulatory accounting, evaluates recoverability of regulatory and intangible assets, and ensures regulatory liabilities are properly recorded.
• Communicates with RTOs (MISO & SPP), transmission partners, customers, auditors, and other stakeholders regarding settlements and regulatory accounting matters.
• Coordinates with regulatory, legal, engineering, finance, and accounting teams to resolve settlements, regulatory accounting, and ratemaking issues.
• Leads or contributes to process improvements for settlements and regulatory accounting activities.

Senior Accountant – Transmission Revenues

Project Manager

• Manages critical electric transmission capital project(s) and special projects that may be outside the scope of the traditional regulated utility space.
• Responsible for assembling, coordinating, and providing clear work direction to cross-functional project teams composed of both internal and external resources.
• Serves as the accountable leader for select non‑standard, highly complex, or high‑risk capital projects where scope, execution approach, or regulatory considerations extend beyond established precedent.
• Leads technical teams in the development of proposals for competitive projects and/or the performance of due diligence for prospective development opportunities.
• Exercises independent judgment in evaluating cost, schedule, risk, constructability, regulatory, and reputational trade-offs, and provides clear, defensible recommendations to executive leadership.
• Acts as a trusted escalation point for systemic project risks or execution challenges and resolves related issues with enterprise‑level impact.
• Establishes the benchmark for project management excellence through mentorship, coaching, and informal oversight of other project managers.
• Leads project teams to successfully deliver projects on time, within scope, and within authorized budget.
• Facilitates development of detailed baseline project schedules to identify the critical path and key milestones.
• Facilitates project meetings (status, coordination, scheduling, lessons learned, etc.), as required, with the project team and stakeholders.
• Monitors and controls project costs through preparation of monthly cash flow projections.
• Prepares, reviews and approves contractor purchase orders, change orders and invoices.
• Communicates project status, issues and risks to leadership and stakeholders in a clear, timely and effective manner.
• Works collaboratively with personnel across all areas of the company to ensure achievement of project objectives.

Principal Project Manager – ENG

• Supports the internal control program to ensure ongoing compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
• Assists management in measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of internal control processes and the overall control environment
• Supports general ledger and month-end close activities, system allocations and reporting, and work order reporting
• Identifies and tests business process improvements and system enhancements
• Assists with internal control projects and initiatives to comply with SOX and achieve overall strategic objectives
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of the Internal Controls Program of the organization
• Assists with documenting risk assessments to determine in-scope cycles for SOX and identify potential risk areas
• Assists with coordinating narrative updates and participates in walkthroughs of controls
• Assists with building awareness of the importance of a strong internal control environment and coordinates training programs on internal control topics
• Supports internal control requests and objectives from Fortis Inc. in support of their SOX compliance
• Coordinates the completion of quarterly internal control questionnaires to prepare required quarterly internal control documentation
• Utilizes Workiva for SOX documentation and provides support to end users
• Coordinates and documents user access and segregation of duties reviews for SOX systems including Financial network drive access and Workiva
• Assists with month-end close activities related to the General Ledger including but not limited to running integrations, consolidations, running system allocations and various other functions
• Facilitates the creation of non-capital work orders, updates work orders as needed and maintains the Work Order Summary file
• Assists in the monthly work order reporting process, quarterly G&A invoice review process and account reconciliations
• Assists with testing for system enhancements, upgrades and new business units including regression testing before any changes are released to the Production environment
• Ensures compliance with Records Information Management (RIM) policy
• Assists with internal and external audit requests
• Assists with ad hoc requests from internal or external stakeholders
• Assists with compiling, reviewing and checking data quality for external filings

Accountant – Internal Controls, GL

Communications

• Meets regularly with staff to coordinate, plan, assign and schedule work tasks; Tasks include, but are not limited to: EI sketch review, project scopes of work, design reports, SCADA and telecommunications device settings, neighboring entity notifications, as well as maintenance and field staff support.
• Ensures leadership is provided in the development of assigned SCADA and telecommunications standards and coordinates with the other Engineering groups to ensure they are followed consistently.
• Provides input into the annual capital maintenance budget process with focus on field communications projects. Perform regular review of the status of the budget.
• Works closely with the other engineering groups to ensure efficient and effective processes are followed in the course of work.
• Oversees NERC Reliability Standards assignments to staff Subject Matter Experts for both 693 and CIP requirements.
• Coaches, mentors and performs performance reviews and guides training and development of employees with their Employee Self-Development Plans.
• Interviews and evaluates candidates for employment and makes hiring recommendations.
• Actively participates in industry forums, conferences and staff recruiting activities.