Accounting Manager

• Effectively manage financial accounting activities for designated companies.
• Direct and oversee the asset accounting team including maintaining the asset accounting records of the Company in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, the company's internal controls over financial reporting and prescribed state regulations.
• Partner with state regulatory teams to successfully support regulatory filings and analyses.
• Provide asset accounting guidance, advice and recommendations to accounting, finance, operations and regulatory leadership regarding financial accounting matters.
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of financial books and financial results.
• Manage the asset accounting financial closing for subsidiary companies.
• Manage and review all asset accounting activities, both internal and external, for the Company in accordance with required internal and external reporting deadlines.
• Provide accounting guidance to business stakeholders and inform decision makers of accounting implications of transactions.
• Perform financial statement analysis and confirm variance explanations to Controller, Financial Reporting, FP&A and external auditors.
• Update, monitor and direct testing of internal controls, as necessary, in order to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Interact with management, consolidation accounting, financial planning, state financial and regulatory staffs, internal and external auditors, and other NiSource companies to identify and support accounting issues.
• Assure compliance with system policies and procedures, generally accepted accounting principles and applicable regulatory standards.
• Demonstrate leadership through functional knowledge and personnel skills and actively develop team members.
• Coordinate, prepare and/or review testimony, responses to interrogatories relating to asset accounting issues, regulatory reports, etc., as well as overseeing compilation of historic and pro-forma rate filing data.
• Manage team of skilled analysts providing coaching, mentoring and skill development (includes union employees).
• Oversee project initiatives as directed by leadership ensuring alignment of resources, timelines and outcomes for asset accounting team.

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