Senior Accountant, Lease Accounting

Key Responsibilities The Senior Accountant, Lease Accounting will be responsible for: Overseeing the monthly (quarterly, annual) closing process related to leasing. Assessing and consistently applying accounting treatment for new and existing lease activities globally across all brands, and ensuring decisions align with accounting policy. Ensuring accounting in accordance with US GAAP, local GAAP and compliance with both internal and external requirements. Monthly closing reports, variance analysis and reconciliations in accordance with US GAAP and covering the Sox framework, and own the compliance aspect regarding this. Managing footnote information for SEC filings, as well as information for local statutory filings. Fielding lease accounting inquiries and addressing complex lease accounting issues. Managing the lease management system, i.e. CoStar, for all brands globally. Reviewing the completeness and accuracy of abstracted lease agreements in the lease management system for all brands globally. Maintaining lease accounting schedules within the lease management system. Analyzing, importing, and maintaining global accounting inputs for FX rates and discount rates in the lease management system. Partnering with Technical accounting to ensure completeness and accuracy of complex leases and accounting assumptions. Reviewing alerts in the lease management system to identify potential issues that need to be researched. Taking the recommended actions to correct issues, where appropriate. Generating and reviewing monthly lease journal entries; distributing monthly and quarterly close reports, including reconciliations, disclosures, commitments, maturity analysis, forecasts, and other related reports to brand accounting teams. Reconciling assigned balance sheet accounts monthly; resolving reconciling items on a timely basis. Preparing monthly variance explanations for income statement and balance sheet accounts, including providing financial details to leaders to facilitate business decisions. Partnering with the Real Estate and Lease Administration teams to provide financial analysis on the lease portfolio to help drive decisions at the Senior Management level. Executing standardized control procedures, and ensuring internal controls are effectively maintained for assigned tasks. Ensuring compliance with accounting policies. Providing support on both statutory and US financial audits and requests from internal and external auditors. Partnering with the Global Process Owner on various initiatives. Enacting continuous process improvements across lease accounting and lease administration functions and cross-functionally in conjunction with other teams, when applicable. Interfacing with cross-functional teams, including Tax, FP&A, P2P, Real Estate and Technology Supporting and engaging in complex and cross-functional innovation and improvement projects in accounting and across finance. Other duties and special projects as required (e.g., reporting, analysis, automation, process standardization, etc.). Knowledge and Skills Minimum 5+ years of related professional experience, preferably with a GL or technical accounting team of a US Multinational Company Chartered Accountant / BCOM / BBA degree Understanding of US GAAP. Experience with ASC 842 OR IFRS 16, preferred. Technical accounting experience, preferred. Experience with SAP S/4HANA , CoStar , OneStream, and BlackLine, preferred. Excel proficiency required. Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace tools, preferred. Detail-oriented, strong analytical skills Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills Demonstrated ability to multitask and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment Accountability and Trust. Unquestionable integrity and ethics.