Senior Accountant - Lease Accounting

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Job Title

Senior Accountant - Lease Accounting

About your role:

We are seeking a Senior Accountant to support our lessor lease accounting function in Omaha, NE.  This role owns the accurate recognition, measurement, and reporting of lease contracts under ASC 842, primarily within SAP from the Odessa lease management platform.  The ideal candidate combines deep technical lease accounting knowledge with strong reconciliation discipline and a collaborative, straightforward approach.

What you'll do:

• Perform monthly close activities for the lessor lease portfolio, including journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations.

• Apply ASC 842 lease classification (sales-type, direct financing, operating) and ensure correct initial and subsequent measurement.

• Maintain and reconcile lease subledger to the general ledger, including net investment in lease/receivable, residual, deferred interest, and deferred revenue accounts.

• Support CECL reserve analysis, assessing collectability and aging of lease receivables.

• Administer and validate lease accounting within Odessa, including commencement, modifications, and terminations.

• Prepare balance sheet analysis.

• Analyze monthly trends and month-over-month variances to validate entries and identify accounting issues that require follow-up.

• Support internal and external audit requests with well-documented workpapers.

• Identify and drive process and control improvements across the lease accounting cycle.

• Responsibilities listed are not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified as necessary.

Experience you'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field of study.

• 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, including lease accounting.

• Strong working knowledge of ASC 842 (lessor accounting) and general US GAAP.

• Proven account reconciliation and month-end close experience.

• Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional partners, including operations, revenue, and tax partners to resolve complex account variances.

• Advanced Excel skills: experience with large data sets and ERP/GL systems.

Experience that would be great to have:

• CPA

• Experience with SAP, Frontier, Palantir, Microsoft Power Platform (Power Query, Power BI, AI/Copilot) and Odessa lease accounting software.

• Familiarity with CECL and lease receivable credit loss modeling.

• Experience in financial services, payments, or equipment leasing.

How you’ll work:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday in Omaha, NE. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.

​Sponsorship:

• You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role.

Benefits at Fiserv:

• Fuel Your Life program to support physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being

• Paid holidays and generous time away policies

• No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs

• Living Proof program to recognize your peers’ extra effort with points used for rewards

• Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture

• Unparalleled professional growth with training, development, and internal mobility opportunities

• Retirement planning and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available day one

• Tuition assistance and reimbursement program

• Paid parental, caregiver, and military leave

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