Senior Manager Assets & Lease Accounting

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager Fixed Assets & Lease Accounting is a highly visible accounting leadership role overseeing fixed asset and lease accounting, leading a large team, and ensuring accurate, timely financial reporting, strong internal controls, and audit readiness. The incumbent serves as the business owner for asset and lease accounting systems, plays a key role in transformation initiatives, process standardization, automation, and system optimization, and partners across Corporate Accounting, FP&A, Tax, IT, and Operations to support enterprise initiatives and business growth.

Owns and oversees accounting and reporting for fixed assets and leases, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP and internal policies, and maintaining data integrity across subledgers and ledgers for accurate financial reporting. Manages the entire capital asset lifecycle (construction/acquisition, capitalization, depreciation, transfers, impairments, and disposals), ensures timely capitalization of Construction‑in‑Progress and completed projects, and determines appropriate capitalization versus expense treatment and lease classifications.

Oversees period financial close activities related to fixed assets and leases, including reviewing and approving reconciliations, analyses, journal entries, and financial reporting deliverables to ensure an accurate and timely period, quarterly, and year‑end close. Collaborates closely with Compliance and Internal Audit to maintain an effective, audit‑ready internal control environment, addresses control gaps, and recommends or implements new controls. Establishes, maintains, and enhances accounting policies and procedures for fixed assets and leases, communicates updates to internal teams, and serves as the primary contact for internal and external auditors, managing requests and remediation of findings.

Partners with FP&A, Tax, Operations, and Corporate Accounting to support forecasting, budgeting, financial analysis, and executes ad‑hoc analysis, providing recommended solutions that drive business decision‑making and operational performance. Serves as business owner for fixed asset and lease accounting systems, overseeing data governance and reporting outputs; partners with IT and cross‑functional teams to evaluate, implement, and optimize tools, modules, or technologies impacting fixed asset and real estate accounting.

Serves as subject‑matter expert on transformation initiatives related to fixed asset and lease accounting processes and related applications, ensuring effective design, data integrity, and adoption across the organization.

Identifies and implements opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability through standardization, automation (including AI adoption), and continuous improvement. Leads, mentors, and develops a high‑performing team, establishing clear performance expectations, providing ongoing feedback, coaching, and support for team members’ capability development and professional growth, and oversees hiring, onboarding, and succession planning for departmental roles.

Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, with expertise in fixed asset and lease accounting. Strong understanding of internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit processes. Proven leadership experience managing teams in high‑volume environments. Experience leading process improvements, system implementations, and transformation initiatives. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to influence, build consensus, and drive alignment across multiple organizational levels. Strong process improvement and operational excellence mindset.

Ability to manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, and independently solve complex problems. Experience with large ERP systems (preferably Oracle Cloud) in asset‑intensive environments. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, and high attention to detail. CPA or equivalent professional certification – preferred.

7–10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant experience in fixed asset and lease accounting.…