KERING Staff Accountant, Lease

KERING Staff Accountant, Lease

Job Family: Accounting & Consolidation

Job Title: Staff Accountant, Lease

Location: Wayne, NJ

A global Luxury group, Kering manages the development of a series of renowned Maisons in Fashion, Leather Goods, and Jewelry: Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, Qeelin, as well as Kering Eyewear. By placing creativity at the heart of its strategy, Kering enables its Maisons to set new limits in terms of their creative expression while crafting tomorrow's Luxury in a sustainable and responsible way. We capture these beliefs in our signature: “Empowering Imagination.”

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

The Staff Accountant, Lease will be part of our R2R team. This position will be the main point of contact with one or more of our luxury brands and will help us report accurate and timely financial data within a defined process. Specific tasks include:

• Setting-up daily leases, amendments, assignments, termination and license agreements into the system and review all lease documents that have already been processed for accuracy
• Ensures that all signed lease documents and vendor invoices have been billed correctly
• Update internal database(s) that are used to track status of lease transactions
• Maintain customer account and contact information in company systems to ensure that they are up to date
• Manage the commission calculation and payment process
• Maintain the lease statements to require operating expense true-up, increases and security deposits
• Payment backups, manual bills, wire transfer and other incoming / outgoing payments
• Review and post monthly, annual rent adjustments from statements
• Review and post tenant’s sales reports by the 20th of each month, calculate percentage rent in excel
• Create and maintain a system of tracking expiration date of leases

• Assist with special projects that may be assigned by Leasing Support Manager
• Meet processing and reporting deadlines

• Manage a task list to deliver timely in coordination with the rest of the accounting department
• Reconcile subledgers to GL, understand and address any discrepancies related to bank, fixed assets, and lease reconciliations
• Reconcile accounts by authenticating, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions, and addressing discrepancies
• Any other ad hoc activities as needed.

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred
• 2 years of experience in accounting (Accounts Payable, Treasury, Lease administration)
• Extensive knowledge handling real estate leases including handling lease documents is essential
• Strong verbal and oral communication skills and the ability to collaborate with staff members
• Ability to adapt and learn as we implement new processes and structures
• Ability to manage deadlines and work in a high-pressure environment
• Attention to detail, prioritization skill and time management
• Detail-oriented, analytical and computer literate with proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and SAP
• Strong analytical, research skills and problems solving skills
• Excellent internal and external customer service
• Able to multi-task and keep track of priorities