POSITION OVERVIEW
The Senior Accountant, Intercompany Accounting serves a critical role in ensuring the accurate and timely recording of intercompany transactions for Cheniere Energy, Inc. and its subsidiaries subject to external reporting requirements. The role will report to the Manager of Intercompany Accounting. The position is responsible for preparing intercompany accounting entries, performing month-end closing processes and financial analysis, researching historical balances, and performing ad hoc reporting and analysis. This role will interact closely with various departments, including Technical Accounting, Tax, Accounts Payable, Shared Services Accounting, IT, Legal, and Treasury.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Reconcile, analyze, and review intercompany accounts in preparation for month-end close to ensure accuracy and validity of accounting transactions.
Prepare journal entries and intercompany invoices in accordance with GAAP and intercompany agreements.
Evaluate and summarize intercompany and third-party agreements to ensure accurate accounting entries.
Maintain a list of intercompany agreements.
Review third-party invoices to ensure compliance with agreements.
Update Accounting memos for significant and unique Intercompany Accounting transactions.
Prepare ad-hoc and other management reports timely.
Develop detailed analytics of intercompany accounts.
Collaborate with various departments on intercompany accounting activity impacting financial accounts.
Develop interdepartmental relationships to ensure positive and successful interactions to complete responsibilities.
Assist Manager in developing and/or modify processes to enhance consolidated and stand-alone financial reporting.
Support Manager in developing training materials related to intercompany process changes.
Adhere to internal control requirements.
Respond to inquiries from external and internal auditors.
The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee as needed.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Knowledge: The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of accounting rules and procedures, including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and extensive experience with month-end close processes and process improvements. Hands-on experience with Oracle or similar software and advanced analytical skills. The candidate should demonstrate an ability to work independently on detailed analytics and reconciliations.
Skills:
Strong interpersonal skills; ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work with all levels of management and employees.
Proven experience in driving process improvement.
Proficient in Microsoft Office products, including Excel (vlookup and pivot tables).
Effective time management skills and detail oriented.
Ability to think critically and independently.
Organized and able to manage multiple activities and programs timely and with a high degree of accuracy.
Must be able to work under deadline pressure and must be willing to work outside of normal office hours.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education and Certifications: Bachelor's degree in accounting is required. CPA certification or active pursuit of certification is highly preferred.
Experience: Three (3) or more years of applicable accounting experience, preferably in public accounting and/or corporate accounting function. Previous experience with Oracle and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) is highly preferred.
DIRECT REPORTS
None
FREEDOM TO ACT
Ability to multi-task and function in a highly dynamic atmosphere; must exercise discretion independently.
WORK CONDITIONS
Job is performed in a typical office environment, but is subject to time pressures and constraints, and is often dependent on input from others.
Occasionally, work may be performed from home, after normal work hours or on weekends.
May be required to work overtime.
Subject to drug and alcohol testing, per applicable federal regulations or as required by Cheniere.
ADA JOB REQUIREMENTS
Reasonable accommodations will be made to ensure that the essential functions of the job can be performed and not hinder the employee''s performance due to physical, mental or emotional disability.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Cheniere Energy is an equal opportunity workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation if requested for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices.
Cheniere Energy is a global leader in LNG providing flexible, reliable and affordable energy to the world while powering the transition to a lower-carbon future.
We are a values-driven company that focuses on teamwork, respect, accountability, integrity, nimbleness, and above all, safety for our employees, our communities, and our assets.
Cheniere Energy's global impact is achieved through a diverse and passionate workforce that is invested in our company through our annual stock-grant program. Our high-performing employees are united by a shared mission, common goals and a culture of inclusion and caring.
Our comprehensive compensation and benefits offerings are competitive and strong, and they prioritize wellness and performance incentives that reward results. As an employee of Cheniere Energy, you will make an impact on our business and our communities.
A Fortune 500 company, Cheniere Energy is headquartered in Houston with U.S. offices in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Washington D.C.; production sites in Cameron, Louisiana and Gregory, Texas; and international offices in London, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo.
Around the globe, countries, communities and companies want many of the same things: to be productive, healthy and safe. At Cheniere, we provide clean, secure and affordable energy to the world — energy that can reduce carbon emissions, help lead to cleaner air, and light homes and power factories — all manufactured and transported by modern energy infrastructure run by a world-class workforce.
The energy we make is liquified natural gas, or LNG. We began operations in 2016, and we’re already the largest producer of LNG in the United States and the second largest LNG operator in the world. Our LNG has reached dozens of markets on five continents, and the demand for our fuel is expected to grow as countries around the world seek cleaner ways to power their economies.
While you’ll find our headquarters in Houston, Texas, and our LNG facilities in Southwest Louisiana and South Texas, we are a global company with offices in London, Singapore, Washington, Beijing and Tokyo.
Cheniere’s energy infrastructure represents a more than $38 billion investment in the future of energy and is a demonstration of the company’s ability to execute. Cheniere established industry records for bringing new liquefaction units online ahead of schedule and is the fastest company to produce and export 1,000 cargoes of LNG.
Cheniere is operating, constructing and developing two LNG facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast. These massive LNG facilities reliably and safely process billions of cubic feet of natural gas per day into LNG and load the liquid energy onto insulated ships that keep the product cold for their journeys around the world.
Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG facility, which is located in Cameron Parish in Southwest Louisiana, began export operations in 2016 and currently has six fully operational liquefaction units, or “trains.” With all six trains complete, the aggregate nominal production capacity of Sabine Pass is approximately 30 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG.
Cheniere’s Corpus Christi LNG facility in South Texas is the first greenfield LNG export facility in the U.S. lower 48 and began operations in 2018. All three Trains are operating, and the aggregate nominal production capacity of the Corpus Christi facility is approximately 15 mtpa of LNG.
What we do is provide LNG to customers, but how we do it makes us different. Cheniere is a full-service LNG provider.
We purchase natural gas from the robust, transparent and liquid North American gas market, process the natural gas into LNG, and offer our customers the option to load the LNG onto their vessels at our terminals, or we will deliver the LNG to regasification facilities around the world.
Approximately 85% of Cheniere’s expected aggregate LNG production capacity, either completed or under construction, is contracted through long-term take-or-pay style agreements with creditworthy counterparties. The remaining volumes of LNG we can produce are available for our integrated marketing unit to sell into the market. That gives Cheniere the unique combination of stability and opportunity — long-term, contracted, stable cash flows, plus marketing opportunities driven by shorter-term natural gas supply and demand fundamentals in markets worldwide.
Natural gas is transported to Cheniere’s LNG facilities on third-party pipelines on which we own firm transportation capacity, as well as on pipelines Cheniere has constructed, owns and operates.