Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. insightsoftware is hiring for a role supporting its LeaseAccelerator SaaS application and clients’ lease accounting needs. The role involves client implementations, product support and testing, collaboration with Product and Engineering, and guidance on lease accounting for equipment and real estate leases.
Responsibilities
- New client implementations of our SaaS application, including consultations on design, configuration, data migration/onboarding, workflow, and training on how to get started and use the application
- Helping live clients make optimal use of the software to meet their enterprise lease accounting, financial and operational reporting, and lease management needs
- Responding to client questions and concerns, and support tickets regarding usage of the application, with particular emphasis on lease accounting journal entries and accounting reports, including technical deep dives
- Analyzing and documenting software defects, regressions, product limitations and potential enhancements. Working with Product and Engineering teams to prioritize tickets and document requirements based on a thorough understanding of client needs
- Helping clients work around product defects and limitations, while waiting for them to be addressed. - Collaborating with internal teams and partners, and with client user teams, to promote best practices
- When new code is developed and ready to be deployed, consultant will work with clients and internal resources, to ensure that the new release meets client expectations and is free of material defects and/or regressions
- Contributing to updates and enhancements to the product documentation and training curriculum
- Reviewing existing implementation protocols and making suggestions to streamline them
- Assisting Solutions Consultants, Customer Success Managers, sales and marketing teams in answering technical questions from prospects and helping refine sales and marketing communications
Skills
- The ideal Senior Consultant, Lease Accountingcandidate has prior lease accounting experience under ASC 842 and IFRS 16
- Bachelor's degree with specialization in accounting, or equivalent academic qualification
- High level of proficiency in Excel and working with Excel functions and pivot tables
- Prior experience in implementing and/or working with enterprise lease accounting software from a lessee perspective
- Understands accounting and disclosure requirements under ASC 840, IAS 17, ASC 842, IFRS 16 and IFRS 102 for the various types of lease classifications
- Understands how to prepare and explain monthly journal entries, prepare monthly roll forward reports, quarterly maturity schedules, and monthly account reconciliation
- Understands how to gather relevant data on new equipment and real estate leases and perform classification tests as lessee
- Prior experience in abstracting information about existing and new leases and loading data into LeaseAccelerator
- Ability to apply technical accounting research to business transactions, specifically within the areas of ASC 840, ASC 842, IAS 17, IFRS 16 and IFRS 102
- Understands various integration options and how they would work in different Company environments related to General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Tax Systems, and other ERP modules
- Understands Time Value of Money calculations and amortization schedules
- Prior experience with Tier 1 or Tier 2 ERP, with special emphasis on financial accounting policies, processes and controls
- Agility and acumen in working with new software applications and productivity and contemporary communication tools
- Knowledge and understanding of corporate controller organizational needs and operational activities
- Strong organizational skills to manage and advance multiple relationships and projects simultaneously with a significant degree of autonomy and minimal oversight
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Benefits
- Remote work
- For non-sales roles, additional bonus eligibility may apply.
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