Fixed Assets Accounting Manager

Role Will Prepare You For:

• Develop management and leadership skillset.
• Manage a larger team and associated delegation of work to ensure effective and efficient results.
• Increase confidence in management presentation and financial data reporting.
• Create interactions and further exposure opportunities with Senior Management.
• Improve the ability to lead and manage finance and accounting responsibilities.
• Develop the ability to absorb increasing levels of responsibility and adapt to a dynamic and fast-paced industry.
• Gain understanding of the company's manufacturing blueprint, product planning timing, and operations.

What You Will Do:

• This position is responsible for:
  
  
  
  • North American capital asset accounting activities and direct supervision of three analysts as well as the work product of a third-party accounting services provider.
  • Asset capitalizations, transfers, disposals, useful life changes and other master data changes.
  • Maintenance of the PentaSAP asset sub-ledger for US, Canada, and Mexico.
  • Leading month-end closing activities.
  • Increasing the accounting oversight and controls over asset transfers, disposals, and revision of useful lives, working closely with colleagues in manufacturing finance and manufacturing engineering.
  • Ensuring compliance for SOX design and testing.
  • Monitoring review of account reconciliations.
  • Providing support and guidance to the manufacturing community on all aspects of fixed assets.
  • Subject Matter Expert for all systems development and improvements.
  • Supporting corporate fixed assets reporting team.
  • Supporting ad-hoc projects as requested.
  
  
  
  

What You Will Learn:

• Excel in the M&E acquire-to-retire asset management process utilized at FCA.
• How multiple organizations interact with asset accounting.
• How to manage a team and back-office functions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a similar field
• Minimum 8 years of accounting or finance experience
• Good working knowledge of accounting principles, methods, and techniques
• Supervisory experience
• Knowledge of the asset management lifecycle, especially the asset capitalization and disposal financial processes
• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills with a bias for action and issue resolution

Preferred Qualifications:

• Asset accounting experience
• CPA preferred