Manager, Accounting, Assets

Position: Manager, Accounting, Fixed Assets
Location: Edinburg

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Virginia Beach, VA, USAPay: USD 102000 - 137000 (Salary)
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Salary Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (“Shentel”) specializes in providing High-Speed Internet and other telecommunications services to customers in the Mid-Atlantic United States. We focus on rural communities, which are often overlooked by larger companies. The Shentel family of brands includes:
Shentel:
Provides traditional cable Internet services for small towns and rural communities. Glo Fiber:
Delivers fiber-optic Internet for customers in larger cities, as a competitor to incumbent providers. Shentel Business and Glo Fiber Business:
Offers small, medium and large-scale telecommunication services for businesses and enterprises in our areas. We live and work in the same places as the customers we serve, and we are proud to support our local communities. For more information, please visit  .I.

Job Summary The Manager, Fixed Assets leads accounting for the company’s capital program, including capital projects, property, plant and equipment, capitalized labor, and grant-funded network construction. The role owns the Oracle Projects and Fixed Assets close, establishes and applies capital accounting policies, and maintains effective SOX controls over the capital cycle. Working closely with Engineering, Operations, IT, Capital Governance, Financial Reporting, Tax, and external auditors, the Manager resolves complex accounting matters, provides decision-useful reporting, develops the fixed asset team, and drives automation and continuous improvement across project and asset accounting.

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership and Team Management
• Lead the fixed asset and project accounting team, setting priorities, assigning work, reviewing deliverables, and providing regular coaching, feedback, and development.
• Maintain current desk procedures, close checklists, process flows, and cross-training so critical activities continue without interruption during absences, peak periods, and staffing changes.

Close, Reconciliations, and Reporting
• Own the sequencing and completion of monthly close for Oracle Projects and Fixed Assets, including project accruals, cost transfers, Projects module close, asset additions and adjustments, depreciation, Fixed Assets module close, and post-close entries.
• Oversee asset transfers between affiliated legal entities and the related intercompany accounting, ensuring cutoff and close dependencies are met.
• Prepare or review capital accruals, including make-ready and third-party installation accruals, and evaluate the reasonableness of operational estimates and accrual methodologies.
• Review journal entries and account reconciliations for fixed assets, intangibles, plant under construction, grant-related accounts, retainage, assets held for sale, and related reserves.
• Prepare and review the monthly PPE roll forward, depreciation analytics, and quarterly variance explanations supporting financial reporting, and deliver capital budget-versus-actual reporting to Engineering, Operations, and leadership.

Capital Project Accounting and Policy
• Serve as the company’s primary resource on capital versus operating expense determinations, including network construction, customer installations, and IT, software, and SaaS arrangements.
• Review project setup requests, requisitions, and journal entries for appropriate…