About this role
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment and help shape the Company’s future. Get ready for your perfect job, one that encourages you to think analytically and work collaboratively with Apple business partners across the world.
The Places Finance team is seeking a manager to help support and drive the accounting and reporting for our global worldwide lease footprint, coupled with coordinating and assisting in operations on the lease payments side. This role manages Financial Analysts that are responsible for real estate lease accounting, external and management reporting, lease payment abstractions, and SOX compliance activities and controls to ensure the reporting accuracy of the Corporate and Retail Real Estate space. In addition, this position plays a key oversight role in maintaining operational efficiencies in the payments space by driving projects and assisting in day-to-day functions and approval workflows, as necessary, as well as reporting sales numbers for Retail stores. The position will further work closely with many strategic business partners, including IS&T, to drive and support system and process improvement projects.
The Lease Accounting Manager will be responsible for accurate abstraction and reporting of leases associated with the real estate portfolio, 1600+, around the world for P&L and balance sheet. The Lease Accounting Manager will further provide strategic oversight to the Payments Team and support any system or operational initiatives. In this role, the Lease Accounting Manager will have a close partnership with Corporate and Retail Real Estate and Global Business Solution (GBS) teams to ensure accurate lease accounting and on-time payments worldwide in accordance with ASC 842 and Company policy. This position partners with many cross-functional business partners including Places (Corporate and Retail Real Estate), Technical Accounting, Legal, Tax, Business Assurance, software development teams, and Apple Global Business Solution teams around the world.
As a Lease Accounting Manager, you will perform senior level review of new lease agreements and amendments, as well as validation of lease accounting treatment assessments (finance vs. operating). You will provide operational oversight to payments team to support any escalations or issues with lease payments or vendor setup, as associated to the leasing space. You will further perform a supervisory role in monitoring for SOX compliance and coordinating SOX testing activities. You will lead, review, and provide oversight for your Team’s various tasks in reporting on the WW lease portfolio, including quarterly deliverables to external reporting, business reports to Senior Management, and sales reporting requirements. You will be responsible for and coordinate requests, both internal and external, to support miscellaneous audits at the Company. You will take the lead to improve systems and processes that impact your team and Places Org, leveraging AI, existing IS&T Infrastructure, and relationships with business partners to drive initiatives.
Minimum Qualifications
10+ years of professional finance experience, 5+ years of managerial experience
BS/BA or equivalent in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
Experience working in Retail and Corporate Real Estate Finance roles
SOX compliance experience
Drive resolution on open lease accounting and payments escalations across the business
Be a self-starter with the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Build effective business partnerships and be an excellent team player
Strong performance in a fast-paced, innovative environment
Excellent analytical and Excel modeling skills
Must be organized and have a strong attention to detail
Effective written, verbal and presentation skills; ability to present to all levels within the organization
Elevate and develop key Financial Analysts on the Accounting and Payments teams.
Strong understanding of US GAAP
Preferred Qualifications
Experience and overall curiosity with AI tools a plus
Tririga, Nakisa, or other Lease Accounting software experience a plus
SAP or large-scale ERP background a plus
Lease payment knowledge/experience a plus
Detailed knowledge and in-depth application of US GAAP Lease Accounting Standard (ASC 842); knowledge of IFRS 16 a plus
System implementation and project experience is an advantage