Skill Demand Careers

Accountant

Type: Contract | Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
 Develop skilled, technical opinions through analyses of all relevant utility applications, petitions, testimony,
schedules, and exhibits.
 Gather information through data requests, onsite audits, and other research methods, as necessary.
 Summarize large amounts of data and testimony.
 Draw conclusions from research to build case foundations and contribute to case development.
 Prepare high-quality, persuasive testimony and exhibits to support OUCC case positions and make
recommendations.
 Serve as case team leader, and a significant contributor responsible for addressing multiple issues.
 Consistently provide strong, credible, articulate oral testimony under cross-examination at public hearings.
 Assist other OUCC staff with projects while maintaining regular personal workload.
 Anticipate problems and develop alternatives in advance.
 Take appropriate decisive action to achieve agency and division goals and objectives.
 Work with multi-disciplinary project teams that include attorneys, economists, accountants, engineers, and other
specialists.
 Proactively maintain required level of professional knowledge through timely review of modifications to principles,
standards, federal and state laws, and legal decisions.
 Ability to perform duties in a confidential and professional manner.
Other Duties/Responsibilities:
 Contribute to achievement of overall agency and division goals.
 Review current utility regulatory practices and theories.
 Engage in continuous personal and professional development.
 All other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
 Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
 An advanced degree in accounting or professional certification is preferred.
 Demonstrated ability to constructively identify and solve problems.
 Intellectual curiosity and the ability to think critically and originally and extend principles, theories, concepts and
methods as unique circumstances or new developments may require.
 Possess: strong written and verbal skills; the ability to work independently and in teams to meet deadlines; and the ability to produce work product in a well-organized manner.
 Extensive computer skills in Microsoft Office products.
 Ability to work on and/or manage multiple cases simultaneously.
 Ability to summarize and communicate complex technical issues.
 Able to work under stressful and occasionally adversarial conditions, such as under cross-examination and short timelines.
 

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