Connie Canitano

About Connie Canitano

As an accountant at NextEra Energy, Inc, I apply my Six Sigma Green Belt skills to…

Experience

1. Accountant

   NextEra Energy, Inc.

   Mar 2010 — Present

   Responsible for ensuring high levels of accounting control and accountability within corporate accounting functions • Prepare monthly close for two legal entities while maintaining GAAP and Regulatory compliance • Prepare all financial reports for GAAP and Regulatory reporting for three business units • Provide accurate and comprehensive explanations of variances between actual results and forecasts/budgets; provide corrective action recommendations to management, where necessary • Manage $1.4B within 4 investment fund accounts while working with bankers and external vendors to maintain financial accuracy and regulatory compliance • Manage $8B Long-Term Debt, Variable Rate Debt and Term Loan issues • Improve process around monthly reconciliations while maintaining an average of $12.8B with no issues • Reconcile intercompany balances across 17 legal entities while continuing to find ways to improve intercompany breaks • Trained, streamlined and transitioned quarterly disclosure reporting to a new staff accountant while saving the company 15 hours of overtime • Instrumental in SAP conversion from decades old accounting system: transitioned 50 monthly journal entries, 10 reports and multiple adhoc reports into the new system • Create efficiencies in the closing process by reducing the time it takes to prepare monthly close entries, gaining efficiencies from BW reporting and identify automation opportunities • Work with internal and external auditors during reviews and audits to ensure compliance with all requests • Remain compliant with all Federal, State and Local laws & regulations. Ensuring that financial results are in compliance with GAAP, FERC and FPSC Regulations. Ensure ongoing SOX compliance.

Education

• Florida Atlantic University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting

  1995 — 2007