Lease Accountant

Oxfam; Newcastle-under-Lyme; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Generous pension scheme

Annual leave

Additional leave allowances

Sick pay

Life assurance

Job summary

Oxfam is seeking a Lease Accountant to own lease accounting across our global organisation, ensuring compliance with FRS 102 and supporting a major finance transformation, including WorkSavi and PeopleSoft integration.

You will lead end-to-end lease accounting activities, advise senior stakeholders, and drive improvements to strengthen controls and mitigate financial risk across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent and lease accounting experience.
• Experience with FRS 102 and financial reporting.
• Ability to lead multi-country, multi-currency operations.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end lease accounting processes: onboarding, classification and measurement, month-end reporting and disclosures.
• Lead the finance workstream for the WorkSavi implementation and its integration with PeopleSoft.
• Provide expert guidance on complex accounting matters and support key accounting judgements.
• Drive process improvements and strengthen controls for audit readiness.

Skills

Lease accounting

FRS 102

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Multi-country operations

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

WorkSavi

PeopleSoft

Job description

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

The Role

Are you a technically strong accountant with expertise in lease accounting and financial compliance? Oxfam is seeking a Lease Accountant to take ownership of lease accounting across our global organisation, ensuring compliance with FRS 102 requirements while supporting the successful delivery of a major finance transformation programme.

In this highly specialised role, you will serve as Oxfam GB's subject matter expert for lease accounting, providing technical leadership across a large and complex lease portfolio. You will play a central role in our FRS 102 conversion programme, leading the finance workstream for the implementation of WorkSavi and ensuring its successful integration with PeopleSoft.

You will be accountable for the end-to-end lease accounting process, from lease onboarding, classification and measurement through to month-end reporting, statutory disclosures and external audit requirements. Working closely with finance colleagues across country, regional and head office teams, you will provide expert guidance on complex accounting matters, support key accounting judgements, and help mitigate compliance and financial risk across the organisation.

The successful candidate will combine excellent technical accounting knowledge with strong stakeholder management skills. You will be comfortable interpreting complex regulatory requirements, influencing colleagues at all levels, and driving process improvements that strengthen controls and ensure Oxfam remains compliant, audit-ready and aligned with evolving business needs.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a high-profile finance change programme while helping to shape and maintain best practice lease accounting across a global organisation.

What We Are Looking For

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with technical knowledge of financial reporting requirements (lease accounting standards) gained through experience, and a strong understanding of risks and controls
• Ability to understand and work within a complex, multi-country and multi-currency operational and accounting environment
• Willingness to engage with new technology
• Proven experience leading finance process improvement and system implementations, including change management
• Ability to be self-critical, have attention to detail and be persistent in the face of challenges
• Have an expectation of continuous improvement with self, the project and the organisation
• Strong project management and communications skills.
• Experience of interpreting complex technical accounting matters and of providing analysis and advice to senior managers and non-finance stakeholders, including on statutory compliance and financial risk
• Experience of producing and reviewing financial procedures, and of influencing managers to adopt new ways of working and maintain standards
• Able to work autonomously across a combination of routine and non-routine issues, prioritising effectively to meet reporting deadlines

We Offer

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits.

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more.

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About Us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

A Thriving Diverse Oxfam

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To Do That

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.