Senior Accountant -Lease accounting

What You Can Offer Us

• Perform monthly financial close activities, which include performing balance sheet reconciliations, booking journal entries and maintaining internal control documentation.
• Prepare reports and financial presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information.
• Review key business terms of various contracts to support internal customers needs.
• Review and interpret leases to identify financial clauses that help assess and manage the Companys financials, including various contract terms such as term, termination rights and billing amount.
• Analyze requests to change terms of existing contracts; support internal customers with post-revision financial information.
• Clarify and resolve contract interpretation and pricing questions with internal teams.
• Coordinate on contract terms and provisions with other departments.
• Perform complex contract research for management team.
• Prepare reports and financial presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information.
• Perform audits on loaded contracts to ensure that financial terms were processed correctly; communicate audit findings to various business partners. Provide data and calculations to support internal and external audit requests.
• Lead cross-organizational projects impacting land and tenant lease data; effectively communicate processes and collaborate on best practices.
• Identify, and review with peers, situations when accounting guidelines present multiple interpretations for a particular lease and escalate to Manager for resolution as necessary; offer ideas for resolution to correct exceptions and prevent recurrence of issues going forward.
• Stay informed about current Company practices and guidelines, including lease accounting guidance, master lease governance, and commencement date determination, to administer lease documents appropriately in the Oracle system.
• Train new employees on processes and procedures; update training manual to reflect current procedures.
• Develop relationships with the Lease Abstraction, Lease Administration, Land Management, Legal, Landlord Relations, and Finance departments to implement and/or support process improvement and develop best practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Need to Succeed

• CA/CMA/CPA required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in billing, contract management, or finance required.
• Oracle experience strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in French strongly preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret complex contracts with multiple amendments and ensure the accounting complies with the Master Lease agreements and in accordance with Lease Accounting guidance.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong system and analytical skills; able to understand complex processes.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite.
• Self-motivated; able to work independently to complete tasks and respond to department requests and collaborate with others to utilize their resources and knowledge to identify high quality solutions.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively.
• Ability to work with different functional groups and levels of employees to effectively and professionally achieve results.
• Strong organizational skills; ability to accomplish multiple tasks within the agreed upon timeframes through effective prioritization of duties and functions in a fast-paced environment.
• Approximately 5% travel may be required in support of the position’s responsibilities.

Interested candidates please send updated resume to R.Dinesh@in.ey.com