Senior Accountant, Lease Accounting

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.).