Senior Accountant

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Date: Oct 13, 2025

Location: Rosemead, CA, US, 91770-3714

Company: Southern California Edison

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Senior Accountant at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you will lead financial master data governance within Corporate Accounting’s Financial Data Governance and Automation team, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency in financial reporting processes. You will assist with the preparation, review, and governance of FERC Form 1 and 3‑Q filings, and support centralized effort within the organization to identify, assess, prioritize, and support process and technology improvements for the organization.

 

As a Senior Accountant, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

  • Initiates and prepares the general ledger and month end close entries
  • Coordinates with internal staff and external accounting firm to facilitate the annual financial statement audit
  • Executes the preparation, compilation and review of monthly and annual financial statements and other reports in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
  • Conducts a monthly variance analysis and identifies variance causes and trends
  • Gathers data for a monthly cash report for management, detailing the current cash position for each bank account and reconciling all temporarily restricted fund balances
  • Carries out the year-end audit; compile and prepare supporting schedules, work papers, and financial reports as requested by auditors
  • Facilitates the creation of various reports for financial, tax, and regulatory purposes
  • Undertakes financial analysis and support for quarterly forecasts and annual budgets
  • A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Five or more years of experience in accounting.
  • Experience with interpreting and applying Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, business administration or other related field.
  • Experience and technical knowledge of Alteryx, Business Objects, Snowflake, Power Platform, SAS, Visual Basics, Python or other financial automation tools/software.
  • Knowledge of SAP/ERP and/or PowerPlant applications/modules with deep understanding of related business processes.
  • Is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

 

 

Additional Information 

  • This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
  • Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
  • Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
  • Relocation does not apply to this position.

 

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

 

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

 

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.