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The Senior Accountant III - Retail Accounting, supports the financial close process, reporting, and analysis activities for Vistra’s Retail Brands, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in accounting operations.
Key Accountabilities
Executes complex tasks with a strong understanding of relevant policies, procedures, and controls.
Analyzes data, identifies trends, and provides insights to support decision-making and operational efficiency.
Reviews and reconciles information to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with company standards.
Collaborates with cross-functional teams to improve processes and implement best practices.
Assists in preparing and reviewing reports, ensuring clarity, completeness, and adherence to guidelines.
Supports continuous improvement efforts by identifying inefficiencies and recommending solutions.
Provides mentorship and guidance to junior team members, contributing to knowledge sharing and skill development.
Role Specific Accountabilities:
Ensures the monthly close process for Vistra’s Retail Brands is timely, complete and accurate, in compliance with US GAAP and other reporting requirements.
Assists in the preparation and analysis of results, including identification of key drivers of variances between actual results and plan, projection, and prior year.
Prepares and/or reviews reconciliations, financial schedules, and variance analyses for retail revenue, bad debt expense, and related accruals.
Collaborates across multiple organizations including Planning, Residential and Business Markets, Marketing.
Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
Experience:
3+ years of experience in Accounting or related field
Experience preferred in the Energy industry, but not required
Skills:
• Experience with accounting and/or reporting systems
• Strong financial analysis, problem solving & communication skills
• Process improvement oriented
• Fundamental understanding of the accounting close process
Core Competencies / Key Metrics
Business Acumen and Industry Insights: navigate and assess Vistra operations and the broader electricity and power generation environment.
Technology and Process Acumen: holistic comprehension of end-to-end processes and associated enabling technologies.
Data Analytics and Strategic Decision Support: harness the power of data and influence strategic decision making.
Effective Communication and Continuous Improvement: support organizational transformation and foster a collaborative, transparent environment.
Accounting Acumen: leverage accounting expertise for business activities with accuracy, precision, and timeliness.
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Job Family
Accounting
Company
Vistra Corporate Services Company
Locations
Irving, TexasTexas
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TXU Energy has a long-standing history of doing the right things for our customers. It starts with the basics — providing electricity plans with easy-to-understand terms and straightforward pricing you can count on. But our responsibility doesn't end there, and neither does our commitment to our customers.
TXU Energy is a subsidiary of Vistra (NYSE: VST), a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine.
Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country. Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation and expansion with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company continues to grow its zero-carbon resources, operating the second-largest fleet of competitive nuclear power plants in the country, substantial battery energy storage capacity, and a growing number of solar facilities.
Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and takes an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail, offering solutions to meet customers’ needs, including more than 50 renewable energy plans. Through its family of retail brands, Vistra serves approximately 5 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers. Learn more about how Vistra is powering a better way forward at vistracorp.com.
