Fixed Assets Accountant

What You’ll Do…

• Maintain the fixed asset subledger, including asset additions, transfers, disposals, retirements, and depreciation.
• Review capital expenditure activity and supporting documentation to ensure costs are appropriately classified and capitalized in accordance with company policy and U.S. GAAP.
• Partner with business owners, Procurement, and Accounts Payable to resolve fixed asset coding, purchase order, invoice, and in-service date questions.
• Prepare and post recurring and nonrecurring journal entries related to fixed assets, depreciation, construction in progress, prepaid expenses, accruals, and other assigned close areas.
• Perform monthly reconciliations of fixed asset and other assigned balance sheet accounts, investigate variances, and resolve reconciling items on a timely basis.
• Monitor construction-in-progress balances and coordinate with project owners to place completed assets into service promptly.
• Support periodic physical asset inventories and asset verification activities, including research and resolution of discrepancies.
• Prepare fixed asset rollforwards, depreciation forecasts, and other schedules supporting management reporting and financial statement disclosures.
• Assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities to ensure deadlines and reporting requirements are met.
• Provide documentation and schedules for internal and external audits, including support for asset additions, disposals, reconciliations, and key controls.
• Maintain compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, and established close procedures.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve close efficiency, strengthen controls, and enhance the accuracy of fixed asset reporting.
• Perform ad hoc accounting analysis and support other general ledger responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Experience: 3+ years of general accounting experience, including fixed asset accounting and month-end close responsibilities.
• Skills: Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and general ledger accounting, including capitalization, depreciation, accruals, and account reconciliations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with ERP and fixed asset systems.
• Ability to analyze financial data, investigate variances, and resolve accounting issues independently.
• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy, and documentation.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple close deadlines.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across functions.
• Experience in a publicly traded, multi-entity, or global organization is preferred.

Working Conditions/Schedule: 4+ days/week onsite in our Burlington, MA HQ