Description

Job Summary

Job Summary

The Accounting Manager will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of lease accounting and fixed asset accounting, including data analysis, financial reporting, and compliance with accounting standards. This individual will manage a small team and will play a critical role in ensuring accurate and timely accounting processes and will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to support business objectives. Regular contact with management and other internal customers is required to identify, research, and resolve accounting issues and problems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare and review related financial statements, disclosures, and analyses.

• Ensure compliance with lease accounting standards, such as ASC 842, fixed asset standards, such as ASC 360, and stay updated on regulatory changes.

• Responsible for the internal financial management reporting and disclosure reports distributed to leadership on a monthly basis.

• Strengthen internal controls, documentation, and enhance processes around the period-end timelines and related reporting processes.

• Review journal entries and complex general ledger account reconciliations, including researching U.S. GAAP issues and resolving accounting discrepancies.

• Partner with internal stakeholders, including Financial Reporting, Fixed Assets, Corporate Real Estate (“CRE”), and Operations teams, to support lease-related transactions and decision-making.

• Prepare and distribute financial information and data within required deadlines and ensure that the information supplied is concise, relevant, and understandable to assist leadership with business and program decisions.

• Serve as the key contact with the external auditors for quarterly review and year-end audits, including discussing and answering technical questions around the parent company accounting process and its impact on the U.S. GAAP reporting.

• Directs training of associates, evaluates and develops associates, including hiring and disciplinary action.

• Directs area workflow by assigning and monitoring work, implementing productivity standards, delegating tasks, enforcing policies, procedures, and controls.

• Collaborates and communicates effectively with other functional areas, including other business unit and IT areas, to resolve complex issues and support achievement of business goals

• Develop and implement lease accounting policies, procedures, and controls to mitigate risks, ensure accuracy and improve processes.

• Stay informed about industry best practices and emerging trends in lease accounting.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge of

• Advanced accounting concepts, practices and procedures.

• Generally accepted accounting concepts, practices and procedures.

• General ledger systems and financial statements.

• PeopleSoft AP & Project Costing module, Hyperion, and Costar Lease Accounting (preferred)

Skill in

• Operating standard office equipment and using required software application to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and databases.

• Reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing financial statements.

• Resolving unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies.

• Preparing financial statements, budgets, and management reports.

• Researching US GAAP issues

• Analyzing financial information.

• Performing mathematical calculations.

• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and precision.

• Proven leadership abilities with experience in managing teams or projects.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Ability to

• Explain or clarify financial information to all levels of management.

• Provide training to others.

• Organize, manage, and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.

• Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and communicates effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.

• Implement changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances.

• Work independently to resolve complex accounting problems.

• Contribute to team efforts by ensuring all relevant information is included in the outcomes.

Educational/Previous Experience Requirements

Education/Previous Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field and six (6) years of professional experience in accounting with two (2) years’ experience in a management role.

• OR

• An equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training approved by Human Resources.

Licenses/Certifications

Licenses/Certifications

• SIE required provided that an exemption or grandfathering cannot be applied.

• Series 99, or ability to obtain within 120 days (as required by FINRA), may be required depending on assigned functional area.

• CPA not required, but considered a plus.

Travel

Travel Required

Travel Required: No

Job: Accounting & Finance

Primary Location: US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg

Organization RJF Corporate

Schedule Full-time

Job Shift Day Job

Travel No

Req ID: 2401504