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City of Fayetteville, North Carolina

Lease Accounting Analyst

City of Fayetteville, North Carolina, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States, 28305

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Salary City of Fayetteville provides a pay range of $61,222.00/yr – $78,058.00/yr. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

About the City City of Fayetteville was awarded the All-America City distinction for the 4th time in 2023. We are the sixth largest City in North Carolina and leverage collaboration and inclusiveness to make decisions and solve problems.

Job Summary The City of Fayetteville is recruiting for a Lease Accounting Analyst to perform research and analysis to support financial processes such as administering the end‑to‑end billing, aging, collection coordination, and reporting for the City’s portfolio of lease agreements (as lessor and lessee) in compliance with GASB standards, GASB 87, GASB 96 for Subscription‑Based IT Arrangements, year‑end closeout, audit process, and financial reporting.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Set up lease billing schedules (base rent, CPI/indexation, percentage rent, escalations), generate monthly invoices, and reconcile payments; prepare aging and delinquency reports; coordinate collection actions with accounts receivable.

Track critical dates, CPI resets, insurance/COI compliance; coordinate with the City’s Real Estate division/Legal on amendments; maintain documentation in the lease management system.

Maintain lease inventory; abstract key terms and calculate lease receivables/deferred inflows (lessor) or liabilities/right‑to‑use assets (lessee); prepare journal entries, amortization schedules, and note disclosures for the ACFR and annual audit.

Assist departments and other divisions within the Finance department with ad hoc analysis reviews and financial accounting questions and reporting; provide training as needed.

Make modifications to the City’s financial reporting system for proper fund reporting of multi‑year and special revenue projects and for classification in the ACFR and AFIR.

Participate in the preparation of fiscal year‑end reporting and audit processes to include the ACFR, AFIR, and other complex financial reports to meet internal and regulatory requirements.

Assist with the preparation of independent reviews of financial records, reports, organizational, and operational studies.

Compose, compile, prepare, review, and present various reports, correspondence, and documents of findings and results; maintain related records and files for retention and compliance purposes.

Participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for the department and for the city; identify resource needs; recommend policies and procedures. Refine AR and lease administrative procedures (billing, cash application, write‑offs) per best‑practice receivables policies.

Combine quantitative and qualitative data to administer programs.

Minimum Qualifications Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

Experience: Four years increasingly responsible experience in accounting, finance, financial administration, or a related field.

Training: Equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in accounting, finance, or a related field.

Licensing & Certifications

Required: None.

Preferred: None.

Benefits

Paid Vacation, Sick Leave and Holidays

Retirement

How to Apply To apply or for more information, please visit the City's career page at: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/fayetteville

The City is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity at all levels of its workforce.

Seniority Level Associate

Employment Type Full‑time

Job Function Analyst and Product Management

Industries: Government Administration and Accounting

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