Manager - Fixed Asset and Project Accounting

Manager, Fixed Asset & Project Accounting

Summary:

The Manager - Fixed Asset & Project Accounting is responsible for leading fixed asset and project accounting activities across the organization, ensuring accurate accounting, strong internal controls, and compliance with IFRS and SOX requirements. This role oversees the full lifecycle of tangible and intangible assets and provides leadership for project accounting processes, systems, and team performance in a complex international business environment. The role partners closely with finance leadership, project stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence, standardization, and continuous improvement.

About the role:

Fixed Asset Management

• Lead the overall fixed asset accounting function, ensuring accurate management of the full lifecycle of tangible and intangible assets, including software licenses and internally developed software. 
• Oversee asset acquisitions, transfers, disposals, retirements, and capitalization processes, ensuring compliance with company policies and applicable accounting standards. 
•  Review and approve complex or high-value capitalization matters, policy determinations, impairment considerations, and non-routine transactions. 
•  Ensure accurate depreciation and amortization accounting and establish robust controls, governance, and documentation standards.

Project Accounting

• Lead project accounting activities, ensuring accurate project setup, cost tracking, cost allocation, capitalization, and close-out processes. 
• Partner with project managers, finance business partners, IT, procurement, and other stakeholders to ensure proper accounting treatment of project-related costs.
•  Oversee the review and approval of project-related expenses and time charges. 
• Monitor capital project portfolios, review financial performance and variances, and define governance over project accounting processes, project master data, and capitalization controls.

General

• Manage GL account reconciliations in BlackLine, ensuring full compliance with IFRS, internal controls, and SOX requirements.
• Serve as process owner for relevant systems, overseeing project setup, master data alignment, and system governance. 
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, SOX requirements, and company policies, and lead responses to audit requests.
• Drive process automation, standardization, system enhancements, reporting, and performance metrics.

Lead, coach, and develop team members and act as the key escalation point for complex accounting issues.

About you:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant experience in fixed assets and project accounting. Prior people leadership, team lead, or functional ownership experience preferred.
• Strong proficiency in SAP WRP and S/4HANA (Asset Accounting module) required. 
• Experience with time management and project-related systems (e.g., MyTime and Fieldglass systems).
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, internal controls, and SOX compliance requirements. Proven experience managing complex accounting processes in a multinational business environment.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills — required for regular interaction with regional and global teams and senior stakeholders
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, complex formulas, data analysis);
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI/automation tools (such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Power BI, or similar) to improve the efficiency, quality, and insightfulness of accounting work. Experience applying AI tools to analysis, reconciliation review, reporting, policy documentation, or process optimization is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to balance detail orientation and big-picture perspective.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy. Strong leadership presence and accountability. 
• Process improvement mindset with focus on efficiency, automation, and standardization. Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment. 
•  Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across functions and levels. Proactive, solution-oriented approach with a continuous improvement mindset.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

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We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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Experience Level

Senior Level