Senior Accounting Analyst - NorthStar Clean Energy

NorthStar Clean Energy decarbonizes the economy by providing clean energy and carbon management solutions to utility, municipal, commercial, and industrial customers enabling them to meet their sustainability and business goals. Additionally, we own and operate natural gas assets throughout the United States. To learn more about NorthStar Clean Energy, please visit www.northstarcleanenergy.com.

This position is with NorthStar Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and is not a position of employment with Consumers Energy.   

About the Role

Are you passionate about numbers and making a real impact on the world? Join us as a Senior Accounting Analyst and play a critical role in advancing the transition to renewable energy. In this position, you’ll bring clarity to complex financial data, ensure regulatory compliance, and partner with leaders across the organization to support clean energy operations, growth, and innovation.
This is more than an accounting role—it’s an opportunity to shape the financial foundation of a sustainable energy future.

What You’ll Do
You will serve as a trusted financial expert, responsible for delivering accurate, insightful, and timely accounting and analysis across the business. Key responsibilities include:

• Own the financial story by managing general and sub ledger activity, ensuring accurate recording of complex transactions, allocations, and cost accounting activities.
• Drive month end close excellence, preparing journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analyses to deliver reliable financial statements.
• Navigate complexity with confidence by researching and applying GAAP and regulatory guidance to ensure proper accounting treatment of expenditures.
• Support regulatory and external reporting, including SEC filings, audits, rate cases, and regulatory testimony—providing data, schedules, and analytical insights.
• Analyze what matters most, identifying risks and opportunities through deep variance analysis, margin estimates, cash flow insights, and forecast development.
• Partner across the business, collaborating with Shared Services, Treasury, Operations, Rates, Internal Controls, auditors, and regulatory teams.
• Present with impact, clearly communicating financial results, variances, and implications to Accounting Leadership and senior management.
• Strengthen the foundation, maintaining internal controls, supporting budgeting and forecasting processes, maintaining master data, and contributing to revenue and cost accounting.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Strong knowledge of GAAP and accounting best practices
• Experience working with large, complex data sets and translating data into actionable insights
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting systems (SAP experience preferred)
• Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Clear, confident communicator—comfortable presenting to leadership
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Energy or utility industry experience
• Wholesale and retail power accounting
• MISO transactions and FERC reporting
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or related field (required)
• Master’s degree in Accounting (preferred)
• CPA designation (nice to have)
• 4+ years of relevant accounting experience (required)
  
  

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a mission driven organization powering a cleaner, more sustainable future
• Work on meaningful, complex challenges at the intersection of finance and renewable energy
• Collaborate with passionate experts across the business
• Grow your career while making a tangible impact on the energy transition
  
  

Why should you join our team?

At NorthStar Clean Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Up to 13 paid Holidays
• Paid time off
• Educational Assistance Program
  
  

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: 

We, at NorthStar Clean Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don’t discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women’s Advisory Panel (WAP), Women’s in Energy (WE), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capable, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture: Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.

All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.