# Accountant, Lease & Fleet

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Lyft is looking for a motivated Accountant to join the Lease Accounting team. This role will support various aspects of ASC 842 lease accounting, primarily related to real estate, including new expansion and AV initiatives within Controllership. The role reports to the Sr. Accounting Manager, Lease & Fleet, and partners cross-functionally with Finance, Lease Administration, Real Estate and other Lyft teams throughout the organization.

Responsibilities:

- Prepare and analyze new leases, modifications and terminations using the ASC 842 checklist, and record new activity in Lease Accelerator

- Assist with the monthly and quarterly close, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations and flux analyses in accordance with close calendar timelines

- Support lease footnote disclosures, including the real estate rollforward and maturity analysis

- Coordinate lease activity with international and third-party partners ahead of month-end close

- Work closely with cross-functional partners including FP&A, Lease Administration, Technical Accounting, SEC Reporting and others

- Prepare support for external audit requests and assist in documenting internal controls to ensure SOX compliance

- Assist in developing and implementing scalable accounting processes to facilitate timely and accurate financial reporting

- Actively participate and collaborate on system implementations

- Perform special, ad-hoc projects in Accounting/Finance as needed

Experience:

- BS in Accounting/Finance, CPA license preferred

- 2+ years of accounting experience; public accounting (Big 4 preferred) or large public company experience is a plus

- Demonstrated initiative and ability to meet objectives and deadlines

- Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills are a must

- Strong accounting research and problem-solving skills

- Strong quantitative and analytical skills; experience in Microsoft with a strong emphasis on Excel is a must. ERP experience required (Oracle and Lease Accelerator experience is a plus)

- Ability to operate independently and as part of a larger functional team

- ASC 842 knowledge and experience strongly desired

Benefits:

- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled

- Mental health benefits

- Family building benefits

- Child care and pet benefits

- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future

- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

- Subsidized commuter benefits

- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

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## Skills

### Required
- ASC 842
- Lease Accounting
- Excel
- ERP
- Microsoft
- Accounting
- Finance
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- CPA license
- Public accounting
- Big 4
- Oracle
- Lease Accelerator

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