Lease Accountant in Oxford

Your new company An established organisation is seeking a Lease Accountant to join its Financial Reporting, Analysis and Planning team.

This is a newly created specialist role which will play a key part in ensuring lease accounting compliance across a large and complex international portfolio while supporting the implementation of new finance systems and processes.

Your new role Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting, you will take ownership of lease accounting across a portfolio of more than 1,000 leases operating across multiple countries, currencies and asset classes.

Responsibilities

• Leading the finance workstream for the implementation and ongoing optimisation of a lease accounting system.
• Maintaining the lease register and ensuring new leases, modifications, renewals and terminations are recorded correctly.
• Monitoring monthly lease accounting journals and completing reconciliations and month-end activities.
• Acting as the finance business partner for operational stakeholders on lease-related accounting matters.
• Calculating and maintaining incremental borrowing rates and supporting lease accounting compliance.
• Developing and maintaining lease accounting procedures, controls and process documentation.
• Delivering lease accounting requirements for statutory reporting and year-end audit processes.
• Producing lease-related reporting, analysis and forecasting for senior stakeholders.
• Supporting the ongoing development of lease accounting policy, controls and ways of working.

Requirements

• Ideally, you will be a qualified accountant (although extensive experience would also be acceptable), with strong technical financial reporting experience and a sound understanding of financial controls and compliance.
• Experience working within a complex finance environment.
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting capability.
• Experience supporting systems implementations, finance projects or process improvements.
• The ability to interpret technical accounting issues and communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience developing financial procedures and maintaining robust controls.
• Strong organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to work independently across both routine and non-routine issues whilst managing multiple priorities.
• Previous exposure to lease accounting, lease accounting systems or FRS 102 reporting would be beneficial, as would experience within the charity sector.

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave raising to 30
• Flexible hours and remote working pattern
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension
• Staff discount platform
• Fully paid sick leave
• Enhanced maternity leave
• And much more