The Real Estate Accounting and Reporting Lead role is responsible for overseeing all aspects of a client’s real estate expense accounting and reporting. This role is a part of a global client service delivery team, working with colleagues in Accenture’s India delivery center to manage the client’s reporting of occupancy real estate related expenses.

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate with the client’s third-party real estate management firm for various aspects of real estate operations, including lease administration, lease accounting, capital projects and real estate operating expenses for the company’s portfolio of occupied properties.
Manage the relationship with the real estate management firm to oversee financial reporting for the client’s real estate.
Ensure all real estate related general ledger accounts are reconciled periodically and any reconciling differences resolved promptly.  
Review real estate transactions, in consultation with the client’s accounting policy team as needed, to ensure accounting outcomes in line with US GAAP and company policies.   
Liaise with the real estate management team on financial assumptions for business cases.
Support real estate occupancy annual budget process for Client, including ensuring real estate depreciation expense is properly loaded to the client’s system
Oversee Lease Accounting processes; determine proper accounting for all lease transactions, processing of the monthly lease accounting journal entries, provide year end GAAP and STAT reporting.
Oversee the rent allocation process managed by the third-party real estate management firm
Engage with the client’s real estate and third-party teams to understand the pipeline of lease transactions and real estate capital projects to obtain general insights.
Oversee fixed assets acquisitions, capitalization, dispositions, impairments, sales etc. to ensure proper accounting; consult with the client’s office of accounting policy as needed.
Laise with client’s tax team to provide annual reporting for personal property tax reporting
Oversee quarterly and annual fixed assets reporting requirements
Provide inputs to annual depreciation budgets (and forecasts as needed) for all asset classes, including developing assumptions on acquisitions and dispositions.