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Applied Materials Fixed Asset Lease Accounting Process Owner B5 
United States, Texas, Austin 
488197149

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What We Offer

Salary:

$116,000.00 - $159,500.00

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Key Responsibilities

  • Policy and Statutory
    • ​ Drives policy improvement to align with changing business needs, technology advancements and industry best practices.
  • Process Delivery

    • ​ Drives end-to-end process alignment and integrity of the control environment.

    • Manages the products/tools organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.

    • Able to deliver multiple conflicting priorities

    • Actively uses benchmarking and performance metrics to understand the health of the organizational service delivery and identify improvement opportunities.

    • Networks to learn best practices and new approaches and new technology advancements.

    • Able to take ownership for escalations and drive for resolution.

    • Strong understands the controls and reasons for them, including risk implications, within the process and business rules.

    • Ensures and drives integrity of process controls.

    • Has a strong understanding of the design of the tools and systems the organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.

  • Process Design, Build and Test

    • ​ Able to coordinate complex design and testing activities.

    • Able to drive design, build and test strategies.

    • Assesses end-to-end processes to evaluate integration points, process and policy controls, efficiency, roles and responsibilities, business objectives.

  • Change & Project Management

    • Functions as change agent

    • Organizes operational sponsorship for the projects

    • Able to lead teams

    • Able to lead projects of higher complexity having moderate to large scope

    • Uses formal change management tools and method, including effective socialization.

    • Uses formal project management tools and method

    • Able to develop effective training materials.

    • Able to drive the implement new processes and policies.

    • Able to project influence within the organization to improve process alignment and performance.

    • Able to project influence to functions outside the organization to improve process alignment and performance.

  • Decision Making

    • ​ Has Shared Services experience

    • Drives for advancement of the Shared Services Mission and Value with best in class company-wide process functions, enabled bystandardization,solid internal controls, and effective performance management

    • Foundation for Decision Making is Mastery of policy, Mastery of process (Reason for Processes, Marriage of Systems, Policy and Risk Management),

      Mastery or how to execute process.

    • Applies mastery to the problem and provides correct solution path

    • Effectively and actively uses performance metrics in the decision process.

    • Effectively and actively uses benchmarking in decision making.

    • Understands the effects of decisions on the stakeholders.

    • Effectively considers the needs of the stakeholders

  • End User Support

    • ​ Clearly understands the Shared Services Mission and Purpose to the Company

    • Able to analyze trends and identify training needs.

    • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to reduce the necessity for inquiries.

    • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to improve self- service tools.

    • Able to improve support model design to meet changing needs of the stakeholders.

    • Understands technology and is able to leverage its ability to improve the end user support function.

Functional Knowledge

  • Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field
  • Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise

  • Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements

Leadership

  • Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

Problem Solving

  • Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Impact

  • Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

Interpersonal Skills

  • Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

Global Fixed Assets Process Owner

Preferred Background

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BS in Accounting and CPA. 7-10 years direct accounting experience with General Ledger and Sub-ledger accounting. Strong exposure to fixed assets lifecycle management.

SAP ECC, w/Asset Accounting Module is a plus; LeaseCalcs, BlackLine, Microsoft Office; Tableau;

Fixed Asset Administration

  • Oversee & own the management of the fixed asset accounting process, globally .
  • Lead team of 4-6 contract personnel based in Bangalore, India, who execute transactions & review Capital Approval Requests for required information
  • Understand and apply corporate policy related to fixed assets. Be the “voice” of Fixed Asset Policy;
  • Manage and maintain the fixed assets subledger and related general ledger activity.
  • Understand and collaborate closely with Tax on CHIPs credits and their application to assets on books;
  • Understand government incentives programs such as Cal Competes and other capital driven subjects and effect on assets;
  • Devise, document and oversee the development of standard processes, procedures and tools (automation). Partner with and influence other areas of Finance and Operations to follow said process and procedures.
  • Monitor lifecycle events from project scoping and approval to asset retirement.
  • Advise business units regarding fixed asset matters and issues.
  • Provide monthly fixed assets and capital spending reporting as required by Global Accounting; support Balance sheet review requirements.
  • Support Tax and other business units or departments in periodic reporting needs and initiatives impacting fixed assets & projects.
  • Research and respond to fixed asset queries from all levels within the organization.
  • Respond to requests for information from internal and external audit entities, including SOX walkthroughs.
  • Deliver training to personnel outside of fixed asset team. Maintain libraries of guides and desktop procedures.

Fixed Asset – Income Tax related

  • Review all asset additions to ensure proper tax treatment
  • Prepare quarterly asset related provision schedules
  • Prepare fixed asset related schedules for federal tax return

Lease Accounting Administration:

  • Manage Lease bots
  • Prepare Lease disclosure supporting documents
  • Update critical data in LeaseCalcs
  • Manage equipment and housing leases for Europe and Japan
  • Coordinate & support Corporate Accounting lease accounting owner

Property Tax:

  • Manage relationship with third party providers (Ryan & Co.)
  • Provide supporting data as needed

Full time

Assignee / Regular