At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.
As an Accounting Analyst, you will play a crucial role in supporting accounting functions by compiling, analyzing, and interpreting financial information for leadership decision-making. You will help ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance with applicable requirements and regulations while supporting internal and external customers. You will also identify opportunities to optimize business processes through technology and automation, improving efficiency and reducing costs. An eye for improvement opportunities and the ability to tackle sophisticated problems are keys to success.
Your work will challenge you, and with our values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Responsibilities/Expectations
- Performs assigned month-end activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, management reporting, SEC reporting, and variance analysis
- Prepares, maintains, and develops schedules, reports, and analyses for internal and external customers
- Provides requested documentation and clear explanations in support of internal and external audit processes
- Processes and analyzes significant amounts of data, including accounting issues and transactions
- Identifies opportunities to improve business processes, with a focus on efficiency, technology, and automation
- Participates as a project team member and serves as a resource for colleagues with less experience
- Accounting Analyst III: Provides accounting expertise and mentorship, participates in small projects with minimal mentorship, and serves as a resource for colleagues with less experience
- Performs other duties as assigned
Additional Responsibilities
- Implements monthly, quarterly, yearly, and invoice closing cycles
- Prepares deferred revenue schedules
- Analyzes monthly fluctuations in volumes and activity and explains variances
- Understands and abides by SOX controls
Education/Experience
- Accounting Analyst II: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related major with a strong accounting focus and minimum of two (2) years of accounting experience in the energy industry
- Accounting Analyst III: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related major with a strong accounting focus and minimum of four (4) years of accounting experience in the energy industry
- Preferred: Revenue or Midstream experience
- Preferred: CPA
Other Requirements
- Demonstrates excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, with safety as the utmost priority
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
- Promotes effective cross-functional communication and collaboration within the team and across departments
- Demonstrates strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial skills
- Preferred: Accounting Analyst III: Familiarity with U.S. GAAP
- Preferred: Experience with Oracle
- Ability to work overtime, if needed, during critical monthly and quarterly closings and reporting
The level at which the position is filled will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications.
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Here’s a look at what that means:
- Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with options that fit your life, not the other way around
- 401(k) with company match and an annual company contribution
- Paid time off, including company and floating holidays
- Paid parental leave (up to six weeks per parent), plus fertility and adoption support
- Advanced AI tools and resources to help level up and work smarter
- Clear paths to grow your career, with a strong culture of promoting from within
- Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
- HSA and FSA options
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Domestic partner benefits
- Employee resource groups, wellness support, paid volunteer time, and company matching for causes you care about
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.
Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.
Education Requirements:Skill Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related major with a strong accounting focus
- At least two years of accounting experience in the energy industry for Accounting Analyst II
- At least four years of accounting experience in the energy industry for Accounting Analyst III
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial skills
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate effectively
- Ability to work overtime during critical closing and reporting periods
- Revenue or Midstream experience
- CPA certification
- Familiarity with U.S. GAAP for Accounting Analyst III
- Experience with Oracle
Williams Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Williams and has not been reviewed or approved by Williams.
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Retirement Support — Retirement contributions are described as notably strong, with a fixed employer contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching up to a set level, and eligible employees may also participate in a pension plan. This structure can significantly boost long-term savings when employees contribute.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage spans PPO and consumer-driven options with prescription coverage, virtual care, second-opinion services, maternity and family-planning support, and chronic-condition programs. Additional resources such as cancer support and HSA contributions on eligible plans broaden the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and paid parental leave, alongside bereavement, military, and jury-duty leave. Coverage breadth helps employees manage personal, family, and civic obligations.
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What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel. We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future. Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
