EPRI
Independent nonprofit R&D consortium for electricity
Assistant Controller
More locations: United States
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business is required.
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, finance, or financial analysis is required.
- At least 6 years of experience managing staff is required.
- Strong knowledge of United States generally accepted accounting principles, financial reporting, and accounting principles is required.
- Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards, international accounting practices, statutory reporting, local regulatory compliance requirements, foreign currency, and intercompany accounting is required.
- A comprehensive understanding of corporate and operational accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis is required.
- Knowledge of internal controls, governance, risk management, and audit requirements is required.
- Advanced proficiency with enterprise resource planning systems, financial reporting systems, data analytics tools, and Microsoft Office applications is required.
- The role requires the ability to apply United States generally accepted accounting principles to international operations and legal entities.
- The role requires the ability to balance global business objectives with United States generally accepted accounting principles, International Financial Reporting Standards, statutory compliance, controls, tax, and operational requirements.
- Lead the preparation, analysis, and presentation of financial and business performance information for non-United States operations, translating results into insights and recommendations that support global decision-making, operational effectiveness, resource planning, and risk management.
- Partner with international business leadership and United States-based Finance teams to provide strategic input to budgeting, forecasting, annual operating plans, market expansion considerations, and other initiatives across global markets.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to Finance leadership, Legal, Tax, and business partners by evaluating the accounting, statutory, tax, compliance, controls, and operational implications of international business initiatives and recommending practical paths forward.
- Lead accounting operations, close activities, and financial reporting for international entities and non-United States business activity.
- Review and approve financial statements, management reporting, account reconciliations, and key accounting analyses for international operations.
- Ensure international results are properly reflected under United States generally accepted accounting principles while supporting compliance with applicable International Financial Reporting Standards, local statutory reporting, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead implementation of accounting policies, procedures, and complex accounting guidance.
- Direct intercompany accounting, foreign currency considerations, and cross-border transactions, including accurate recording, reconciliation, eliminations, and reporting across global entities.
- Design, maintain, monitor, and strengthen internal controls over financial reporting, including evaluating control effectiveness and leading remediation efforts for identified deficiencies.
- Coordinate with internal and external auditors regarding audit requests, process documentation, walkthroughs, testing activities, and remediation plans.
- Partner with internal and external tax advisors to support international tax compliance, transfer pricing, permanent establishment considerations, indirect tax matters, and related business initiatives.
- Ensure adherence to financial and administrative policies, including accounting, timekeeping, travel and expense, procurement, and contract administration requirements.
- Provide training and guidance to staff on accounting policies and procedures, financial controls, and reporting requirements.
- Lead cash forecasting and cash-flow analysis for applicable international operations and legal entities, considering local banking practices, currencies, and funding needs.
- Monitor financial activity with external banking partners and support effective global cash management in coordination with United States-based Finance and local business stakeholders.
- Lead finance transformation initiatives involving process optimization, automation, shared services expansion, enterprise resource planning enhancements, international reporting improvements, and control effectiveness.
- Utilize enterprise resource planning systems, reporting tools, data warehouses, and analytical solutions to improve decision support and financial management processes.
- Build and maintain a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer service excellence.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and development for staff through talent development, succession planning, delegation, employee engagement, and accountability for results.
- Establish departmental and individual performance goals aligned with organizational objectives, and conduct performance evaluations while providing ongoing feedback and development support.
- A master's degree, Master of Business Administration, and/or Certified Public Accountant designation is preferred.
- Experience leading accounting professionals in a complex global or multi-entity environment is strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting non-United States business operations, legal entity reporting, statutory compliance, intercompany activity, and cross-border transactions is preferred.
- Experience working within not-for-profit organizations, government-funded environments, utility-related industries, or project-based organizations is desirable.
- Familiarity with government-funded accounting environments, indirect cost structures, and proposal and reporting requirements is preferred.
- Advanced proficiency with SAP is preferred.
About the company
EPRI conducts objective scientific research on the electric power system, covering generation, transmission, and distribution to improve reliability, safety, and environmental performance. It funds and runs large R&D programs through member dues, tests technologies, analyzes data, and publishes guidelines and tools for utilities and regulators. It differs from competitors by being a member-owned, independent, non-profit consortium that pools resources from many utilities rather than a for-profit firm or single-company lab. Its goal is to provide foundational R&D that helps make the electric grid more reliable, safer, and cleaner for utilities, regulators, and the public.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Grant
Total Funding
$22.7M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
1973
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- On September 14, 2026, Birmingham and EPRI expanded the £2.63 million FURESHMA fusion program.
- On August 6, 2026, EPRI launched SAFERai.power with 25-plus founding members.
- On August 18, 2026, EPRI validated a 1 MW solid-state transformer on a live feeder.
What critics are saying
- Utilities can internalize R&D, shrinking dues and weakening EPRI's funding base by 2027.
- Voluntary frameworks like SAFERai.power and Flex MOSAIC lose relevance without utility adoption.
- Microsoft, NVIDIA, and hyperscaler-led consortia will absorb AI grid standards if EPRI stalls.
What makes EPRI unique
- EPRI's 1972 utility-funded nonprofit model gives it neutral, industry-wide technical authority.
- Its laboratories in Lenox and Palo Alto validate technologies under live utility conditions.
- It convenes utilities, regulators, and vendors into shared standards like Flex MOSAIC.
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↑ 0%Three U.S.-U.K. partnerships accelerating fusion commercialization. Joint declaration of intent signing with, from left, Matthew Lanctot, Steven Cowley, Tim Bestwick, and David Capper. (Photo: UKAEA) At the start of U.K. Fusion Week on Monday, three partnerships were announced that bring together fusion energy research and development efforts across the United States and the United Kingdom. State partnership: Tennessee and the U.K. announced a strengthened partnership to explore cooperation research, supply chains, regulation, and other activities supporting the development of fusion energy. According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, this collaboration builds on the U.K. Infinity Fusion Consortium, a partnership between Tennessee-based Type One Energy, U.K.-based Tokamak Energy, and Texas-based AECOM that was announced in May. "Fusion is moving out of the laboratory and into the market, and Tennessee is ready-made to lead the way," said Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. "Our strong supply chains, skilled workforce, reliable regulatory framework, and partnerships with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority position our state to make commercial fusion a reality. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with the United Kingdom to bring this clean, abundant source of energy to market faster." The partners will explore strengthening fusion supply chains and advanced manufacturing, development of the fusion fuel cycle, scientific and technical exchange among participating facilities, engagement among industrial partners on commercial grid connection, workforce development, licensing and safety frameworks, and joint conferences that support global fusion sector growth. "This powerful, bilateral, public-private partnership weaves together the essential threads of the fusion value chain," said Type One CEO Christofer Mowry. Multiplying resources: The U.K. Atomic Energy Authority and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have signed a joint declaration of intent to explore linking two new computing systems to allow fusion researchers to share resources and optimize computing methods, aiming to speed up fusion energy research. In January, PPPL announced Simulation, Technology and Experiment Leveraging Learning-Accelerated Research (STELLAR-AI), an integrated system of central processing units, graphics processing units, and quantum processing units in a configuration specifically designed for fusion research. The U.K. government announced in March that it would be funding a fusion-focused supercomputer named Sunrise at the UKAEA. Since the institutions are exploring the same fusion approach - the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade at PPPL and the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade at UKAEA are both spherical tokamaks - researchers would benefit from sharing experimental data for training AI, for which quantity and quality of data is a critical component of model development. "Our goal is to let models and experiments move freely between the two systems," said Shantenu Jha, head of computational sciences at PPPL. "We will turn a collection of supercomputers into a single engine for fusion discovery." PPPL and the UKAEA conducted a workshop to lay out the steps a federation would require. Those include building a shared data pipeline, joint digital twin development, and a framework for moving computing jobs between platforms so researchers can run their models on the machine best suited for the task. Research to grid: The University of Birmingham in England and the Electric Power Research Institute have announced a collaboration to develop fusion energy technologies though the university's FURESHMA (Fusion Reactor Shielding Materials) program, which aims to test boride and carbide shielding materials for use in a fusion power plant. According to the university, the collaboration will support technology transfer and accelerate the path from laboratory discoveries to real-world energy applications. "Through FURESHMA, EPRI and the University of Birmingham can connect advanced materials research with the needs of future plant developers and operators, strengthen international knowledge exchange, and help establish a sound technical foundation for fusion deployment," said Steve Chengelis, EPRI vice president for nuclear development and fusion. Data generated through the project will be made openly available. EPRI had an existing relationship with the university, including funding a studentship on vanadium alloy welds for fusion through the FURESHMA program.
Change 4 mindsets to build a more resilient US grid: NERC CEO Jim Robb. While the challenges of building new power infrastructure are real, some of the obstacles that need to be overcome are self-limitations embedded in a deeply rooted mindset, writes Robb. Published Sept. 15, 2026 By Jim Robb Jim Robb is president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., and chairs the Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Systems at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The world is on the cusp of an amazing transition to one enabled and fueled by artificial intelligence. The United States is poised to lead this revolution on every dimension except one: electric power. And that gap should concern every American. The U.S. has not demonstrated the ability to construct new electric infrastructure at a pace that can keep up with projected demand growth for data centers, electrification policies, demographic changes and industrial growth. The need for electric power infrastructure focuses attention on the five-alarm fire that was already burning due to lack of infrastructure investment and the disorderly transformation of the electric grid. Electricity isn't an energy source; it's a delivery mechanism. Energy has its roots in fuel, whether fossil fuel, wind, sunshine, water or nuclear particles. The beauty of electricity is its fungibility across those fuels. From an end-user perspective, a kilowatt hour is a kilowatt hour, irrespective of where or how it was generated. Electricity represents a bit less than 20% of end-use energy consumption today but it is bound to increase. Electrification of transportation, heating and certain industrial processes will continue to add to the strain on the electric grid and must be coupled with policies that promote the development of a robust and affordable electric grid and the necessary fuel infrastructure to support. While the physical challenges of building new infrastructure are real (for example, there is only so much manufacturing capacity to build power generation turbines and it can only be scaled up so quickly), some of the obstacles that need to be overcome are self-limitations embedded in a deeply rooted mindset formed over the past 30 years. To conquer this challenge, Utility Dive must urgently shift some of its traditional mindsets: Siting and permitting should enable responsible development. The U.S. has been adept at limiting the growth in power demand through energy efficiency programs and the natural turnover of appliances to more energy efficient designs. As a result, Utility Dive built very few large infrastructure projects and developed rigorous approval processes to ensure that only the "best" projects were built. In a new era of unprecedented demand for electricity and related consequences for national security and global leadership, societal mindsets must shift to getting more energy responsibly on the grid as quickly as possible. Utility Dive must resist the urge to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Load needs to be an active part of the electric system. The electric sector has largely treated demand as an exogenous variable, save for a handful of demand response programs that paid large consumers to reduce their consumption when the system gets tight. With the proliferation of exceptionally large data centers with energy needs comparable to those of large cities, its electric reliability framework needs to evolve to account for their operational performance. For example, the AI revolution cannot occur unless data centers are good citizens of the grid. Many are working on this. For example, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., the country's electric reliability organization that oversees the bulk power system, is working at breakneck pace to figure out the criteria for identifying the most consequential large computational loads and the appropriate performance requirements to ensure continued reliable operation of the grid. The Electric Power Research Institute is developing a standardized load-flexibility framework, called Flex MOSAIC, to bring some degree of consistency in the ability to curtail the energy use of large loads when needed for grid reliability. A reliable, resilient grid will be based on a mix of technologies. Every year, it seems, there is new analysis on the levelized cost of energy from various power generation technologies, and policymakers in many areas choose to focus on the development of the lowest cost resources, currently solar and batteries. However, the cost of reliably integrating these inexpensive technologies goes far beyond the resource selection. All generating resources and fuel types have positives and negatives associated with them. For instance, while solar and batteries are inexpensive and easily procured, solar requires sunshine that is not consistently available, and storage relies on charging during periods of energy surplus. These resources are exceptional technologies in sunny parts of the country and in the summer, but they struggle to make meaningful reliability contributions in cloudier parts of the country and to serve electric peaks in the winter (which typically occur before the sun rises and after the sun sets). Similarly, natural gas generation provides extraordinary flexibility for balancing variable production generation like wind and solar but gas delivery for power generation can be curtailed under tight conditions. Hydroelectric production depends on rainfall, nuclear plants need to be refueled, coal piles can freeze and the wind doesn't always blow. And so on...
Alderbuck Energy expands leadership team. September 09, 2026 at 21:00 PM EDT i This article is third-party content and does not represent the views of this site. Tamar Securities, LLC make no guarantees regarding its accuracy or completeness. Former EPRI engineer Sunil Chhaya, PhD, joins as Vice President of Market Development & Applications Engineering Alderbuck Energy, a San Diego-based power infrastructure company building solid-state systems for AI data centers, today announced that Sunil Chhaya, PhD, has joined the company as Vice President of Market Development & Applications Engineering. Chhaya joins Alderbuck from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he spent nearly two decades leading work on grid modernization, distributed energy resource integration, managed charging, vehicle-to-grid, and cybersecurity. At Alderbuck, Chhaya will lead market development and applications engineering for the company's integrated power platform, the Nexus Power Unit(TM) medium-voltage solid-state transformer and the PowerVector AI(TM) software layer, including predictive diagnostics, distributed energy resource management, and grid-aware orchestration. "I'm thrilled to be back at the intersection of agentic AI and power electronics, doing what I did thirty years ago in my PhD program, before anyone called it that," said Chhaya. "I joined Alderbuck because it has a team that has previously commercialized advanced hardware, and because the company understands that power electronics and the intelligence layer must be systemized together. It's not often a career comes full circle this precisely, and Alderbuck is exactly where I'm excited to close that loop." The appointment comes as Alderbuck moves its platform from design into the field. A planned Nexus Power Unit pilot at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, funded through a California Energy Commission initiative with San Diego Gas & Electric, EmeraldAI, and the Good For Others Foundation, is meant to show how medium-voltage solid-state conversion can cut footprint, installation time, and energy losses for high-density AI loads. As power demand grows more intense and dynamic with AI compute, transport electrification, and distributed resources, Chhaya will help position Alderbuck as the platform that treats power electronics, grid interoperability, and site economics as one system. About Alderbuck Energy Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Diego, with engineering and manufacturing in Dearborn, Michigan, Alderbuck Energy develops solid-state, isolated, bidirectional power control systems that streamline the connection of AI data centers while improving energy efficiency and reducing cost. Its Nexus Power Unit (NPU)(TM) replaces multiple pieces of conventional electrical equipment, transformers, rectifiers, and inverters with a single, software-enabled platform that converts medium-voltage AC directly into high-voltage DC, reducing footprint, installation time, and energy losses. Companion software PowerVector AI(TM) monitors and manages energy flows between utilities, batteries, renewables, and customer loads in real time, using AI to optimize performance and flag equipment issues before failures occur. The platform helps customers overcome grid constraints so data center developers do not have to wait years for a utility connection. Contacts. Report this content If you believe this article contains misleading, harmful, or spam content, please let Tamar Securities, LLC know.
NC State, New York Power Authority and EPRI demonstrate solid state transformer success under real world conditions. * Science * 18 Aug 2026 11:21 pm AEST * Share North Carolina State University, in collaboration with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and EPRI, has designed and tested a high-efficiency solid state transformer (SST) capable of handling up to 1 MW of power under real-world conditions. Supported by NYPA and demonstrated at EPRI's laboratory in Lenox, Mass., the system underscores the technology's potential to improve energy efficiency, including at installations with significant power demand such as data centers, and to provide potential cost savings in grid operations. The SST can reduce heat loss associated with power production and due to its compact size can be used in areas with space constraints. "This is the first independently verified, megawatt-class solid state transformer validated on a live utility distribution feeder," says Srdjan Lukic, principal investigator on the SST project and Lampe Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State. "This is a significant step in advancing power transformer technology." The SST prototype was designed, constructed, tested and deployed by NC State students and faculty. The prototype used in this NYPA-supported, EPRI-supervised demonstration was connected to a real distribution feeder at EPRI's power delivery laboratory. Electricity is transmitted across power lines in the form of a high-voltage alternating current (AC). However, applications that require large loads, such as data centers and electric vehicles, make use of lower-voltage direct current (DC). Conventional power systems use two pieces of technology - a transformer and a rectifier - to convert high-voltage AC into low-voltage DC. These two together- the conventional transformer and rectifier - are only about 96% efficient, meaning typically approximately 4% of the power is lost as heat during the conversion process. SSTs function as both the transformer and the AC/DC rectifier. They are significantly more efficient resulting in only about 2% of the power being wasted. Given the need to maximize system capacity to support data centers or other large-scale projects, a highly efficient SST can provide cost savings, produce less heat, and lessen the amount of electricity that needs to be generated and transmitted for the application. In addition, SSTs are smaller than the conventional transformer-and-rectifier technologies so can be better used in settings where there are space constraints, such as urban areas Discover more government Learning & Developmental Disabilities "SSTs take up less space," says Lukic. "That can be important when considering large-scale projects such as data centers that can have a large footprint but also require their own power source in close proximity." NYPA, the nation's largest state public power utility, collaborated with NC State to develop the transformer because of the significant potential benefits to its operations. SSTs enhance grid efficiency and support renewable integration, bidirectional power flow, and voltage regulation to handle increasing demand associated with data centers and electric vehicle charging stations. Ramadan Elmoudi, Senior Research, Technology and Development Engineer at NYPA, who served as a project lead noted, "We learned through the project's positive outcomes that solid state transformers can serve as another tool in our clean energy toolbox to enable New York State to operate and maintain a compact, efficient and resilient grid." "It is encouraging to see innovative technologies progress from university laboratories to full-scale testing," said Drew McGuire, EPRI senior director of transmission and distribution research. "This collaboration was a powerful way to accelerate understanding and development of technologies like this SST." EPRI's role in testing the technology is significant because the organization helps utilities test new technologies, like the SST, and then develop implementation strategies to adopt those technologies. Through this collaboration, this advancement can now be shared with the industry to benefit technology developers, utilities, and the public. This work was initially funded by U.S. Department of Energy's Transportation Technologies Office (TTO) under award DE-EE0008450. NYPA funded and contributed to the SST construction and in field testing aspects of the project. Discover more Executive Branch Newspapers
EPRI launches effort to reduce risk in AI power sector deployment. As artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from pilot projects to real-world deployment across the energy sector, there is a growing need for trusted, consistent methods to evaluate operational risk. EPRI this week announced SAFERai.power, a collaborative initiative that will equip utilities and technology providers with the tools, evidence, and guardrails needed to scale AI responsibly. Building on work from EPRI's Open Power AI (OPAI) consortium, SAFERai.power addresses the risks AI solutions may pose to critical power system attributes: safety, accountability, fairness, explainability, and reliability (SAFER). The initiative will develop a common operational risk framework and open-source assessment toolkit to help organizations evaluate whether AI systems are ready for deployment in utility environments. "AI is ready to transform how the power system operates-but only if we make it trustworthy in the real world," said EPRI President and CEO Arshad Mansoor. "With SAFERai.power, we are building the bridge between innovation and trust, applying guiding principles to the tools needed for operations. Working together, we can ensure these powerful capabilities are deployed in a way that is safe and reliable for everyone," he said. Delivering a Common Approach to AI Risk The initiative will focus on three key deliverables: * Risk Framework: This framework includes risk scenarios, failure modes, autonomy levels, guardrails, and use-case tiers. * Evidence Packages: These will include AI system risk file templates for provider and deployer evidence. * Assessment Tool: This open-source toolkit will provide for tiered and scalable use-case risk assessment. More than 25 founding members representing utilities, technology companies, regulators, market operators, and reliability organizations are contributing expertise to help ensure the framework reflects real-world operational requirements across the electric sector. Industry Collaboration As AI adoption accelerates, technology providers and utilities must work together to establish trusted practices for deployment in critical infrastructure environments. "Trust is the foundation for AI adoption in the power industry. Utilities operate some of society's most critical infrastructure, where reliability, security, and safety are non-negotiable," said Darryl Willis, corporate vice president of Energy and Resources at Microsoft Frontier Company. "To realize the full potential of AI, we must build solutions that are transparent, secure, and grounded in industry expertise so operators can act with confidence and deliver resilient energy systems for the communities they serve," he added. Regulatory Perspective Regulators also play an important role in advancing innovation while maintaining public confidence in the electric system. "State regulators support innovations that can allow utilities to strengthen the reliability, resilience, affordability, and security of the electric system. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into utility operations and grid management, initiatives such as SAFERai.power can help provide the collaborative framework and best practices needed to advance adoption of these technologies," said National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) President Ann Rendahl. "NARUC supports bringing together stakeholders to help ensure AI is deployed in ways that benefit customers while maintaining public trust." Reliability and Utility Operations Ensuring AI systems support grid reliability is a key focus of the initiative. Reliability organizations, utilities, and system operators will help shape the framework to reflect the power sector's unique operational requirements. "Understanding the potential applications for AI can help us understand both the benefits and work with industry to mitigate any risks," said Jim Robb, president and chief executive officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). "This effort will lay the foundation for that work." "The utility sector is unique in that it requires a heightened bar for responsible and secure AI use to ensure the ability to provide reliable, resilient, and affordable power is enhanced and not compromised," said Robert Piascik, senior vice president and chief information officer at the New York Power Authority (NYPA), the nation's largest state public utility. "As AI capabilities accelerate, utilities, including large public utilities like ours, need clear, evidence-based methods to evaluate risk and maintain trust. The SAFERai.power initiative will provide the tools and structure required to scale AI safely, ensuring these technologies strengthen AI use in the energy sector and contribute to safer, more secure, and consistent grid operations." Initial founding members of SAFERai.power include Alliant, Ameren, ATC, Arizona Public Service, Centerpoint Energy, Con Edison, Constellation, Cooperative Energy, CPS Energy, Duke Energy, Exelon, HData, Microsoft, Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO), NERC, Nebraska Public Power District, New York Power Authority, NVIDIA, Omaha Public Power District, Pacific Gas & Electric, PJM Interconnection, Salt River Project, SHI International, Southern California Edison, Southern Company, TVA, WEC Energy Group, and World Wide Technology (WWT). [Source: EPRI]