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The Manager, Accounting leads a team of accountants within the Company’s lease accounting function to determine lease classification and measurement/remeasurement, ensure complete and accurate financial close, and controls over lease transactions, including monthly rent (including complex variable percent rent calculations), common area maintenance (“CAM”) payments and billings, and property tax payments and billings.

This role partners with other functional accounting teams end-to end process. Further, this role is critical in acquisition and integration activities while ensuring business continuity and effective controls in the process.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lease Process Management Shared service/centralized lease accounting close and reporting process, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and company policy and procedures for the accurate and timely reporting and payment of leases and billing of sublease.

• Manage lease accounting operations and activities including legal document review, classification testing, measurement/remeasurement, monthly close process, monthly rent and common area maintenance payments/billings, and monthly lease year-end percent rent processes.

• Review lease and real estate portions of transfer settlement statements.

• Directly supervise/coach staff of 2-4 people and assist in their professional development.

• Review monthly P&L accounts related to fixed and variable rent, CAM, etc., and research discrepancies between payments and billings to franchisees.

• Review journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, roll forwards, flux analyses, and disclosures to ensure the accurate and timely processing of financial transactions and reporting.

• Research and analyze issues and inquiries and provide guidance to staff when resolving issues.

• Provide outstanding customer service and support to our internal and external business partners.

• Assist leadership in research and special projects.

• Integrate processes across acquired brands into centralized teams, processes, and systems

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum: 4-year degree in Accounting

• Certified Public Accountant preferred

• Minimum: 5-7 years of total accounting experience

• Prior experience with enterprise general ledger accounting systems (Oracle Cloud preferred)

• ASC 842 - Lease Accounting experience preferred

• Experience in leadership/management

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, OR ABILITIES

• Preferred Oracle cloud systems knowledge

• Flexible, “hands-on”, self-starter with strong initiative and work ethic

• Business-minded, analytical accountant who can balance complex technical accounting issues with efficient business operations

• Demonstrates ability to understand and interpret complex accounting literature and guidance

• Clearly communicate results and accounting positions to leadership (both written and oral)

• Thrive within a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Develop effective work plans and meet assigned deadlines

• Maintain momentum and positivity while managing through the change and ambiguity associated with a fast-growing organization

• Motivate and support the extended Lease Accounting team to achieve success

This position sits within our Atlanta Support Center with an expectation to be onsite 80% of the time

Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 32,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.