Description

The Position

Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 75 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expect–improving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are B Corp certified,  enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.

About the Job:

The Information Systems team at Uplight is looking to hire a senior financial analyst or manager, depending on experience and skillset.  We are looking for someone with a get-it-done attitude who is passionate about designing and building business processes, data structures, and workflows to empower our financial teams.  This position, and the team as a whole, serves as a liaison between many groups, such as Finance, Contracts, People, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, Operations, Product, and Engineering, all in an effort to empower the business with accurate and timely transaction processing and reporting.  Our perfect candidate has experience in NetSuite or other ERP platform, SuiteScript or JavaScript, system architecture, business process design, and has a basic understanding of generally accepted accounting principles.  We are looking for someone who has experience in adding companies, currencies, and localization packages in NetSuite and experience building toward SOX compliance.  This role will have a high level of exposure across the business and be required work to closely with many different groups and functions.  Candidates need a proven track record of distilling down complex problems and data into actionable insights. This position will be focused on eCommerce but may be asked to extend expertise across the business.

What you get to do:

• Design and implement processes to continuously improve our financial reporting climate
• Drive efficiency and system effectiveness by streamlining, standardizing, and automating processes
• Fill a key role in high priority, high visibility projects, such as international expansion, multi-currency buildout,  and growing our systems and processes towards a SOX compliant 
• Develop training programs and materials that make impactful investments in our people
• Create your own opportunities by identifying for systemic or process improvements
• Develop operational process flows and integrations through a complex system web
• Uncover areas within the business to drive performance improvements to unlock productivity and accelerate execution
• Engage with technical process experts to help identify solutions to business pain points
• Drive systems-related project execution in direct partnership with a wide variety of business partners to empower measurement and documentation of business results
• Ownership of system and process documentation

What you bring to Uplight:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, accounting, or finance
• 3-5 years in a technical or business analyst role working with NetSuite or a similar ERP
• Ability to understand a complex system schema and corresponding process flows
• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills with a keen attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong team player, ability to lead peers in accomplishment of common goals
• Enjoyment of balancing numerous different priorities and demands across a wide breadth of topics
• NetSuite, combination of implementation, administration, and operation
• Multi-currency, translations, and consolidations
• JavaScript/SuiteScript is a big plus
• Self-starting, ability to work with minimal direct supervision; takes ownership
• SOX compliance understanding

What makes working at Uplight amazing:

In addition to all the standard medical and dental benefits, that kick in Day 1, we:

• Are proud to be over 300+ rebels with an important cause by helping to create a more sustainable planet.
• Are committed to the environment, our employees, and our communities. 
• Are focused on career growth by following defined career ladders
• Take our work and mission seriously and….we love to laugh!

We also:

• Provide a 401k Match
• Have an innovative flexible time-off policy
• Keep you energized with plenty of food and drink

Salary range $70 - 85K/Yr

Uplight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.