Senior Accountant, Global Fixed Asset & Leasing

Company Overview

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons' most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion's four major groups of products include: aortic stent grafts, surgical sealants, On-X mechanical heart valves, and implantable cardiac and vascular human tissues. Artivion has over 1,600 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries. The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website, www.artivion.com.

Position Objective

This position is responsible for detailed global fixed asset, intangible asset, depreciation, amortization, and lease accounting activities that support Artivion's monthly close, quarterly reporting, annual compliance, internal controls, tax requests, and external reporting. The role maintains accurate SAP fixed asset and lease-system records; prepares and reviews journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules; monitors construction-in-progress, go-live dates, depreciation keys, useful lives, and disposals; supports property tax, insurance, audit, SEC reporting, and SOX documentation; and partners with Finance, Tax, Legal/IP, IT, FP&A, business owners, and global entities to ensure asset and lease activity is recorded timely, supported, and in accordance with company policy and US GAAP.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned month-end close activities for fixed assets, intangible assets, depreciation/amortization, and leases, including preparation and review of balance sheet and income statement entries, account clearings, variance research, documentation, and timely completion of close tasks.
• Run, validate, and record depreciation and amortization activity in SAP and related environments for assigned companies and asset classes; review depreciation status, update default depreciation keys such as year-end bonus depreciation keys, and confirm postings are complete and accurate before close deadlines.
• Review newly created leasehold improvement assets to ensure SAP useful lives and depreciation terms align to the applicable lease terms rather than default lives; correct depreciation dates, useful lives, and asset master data as needed.
• Maintain fixed asset and intangible asset master records, subledger detail, and supporting documentation for acquisitions, transfers, disposals, reclasses, asset recharges, cost center corrections, and capitalized costs, including activity in clearing accounts and GL accounts used for asset processing.
• Monitor construction-in-progress and project-related assets from purchase or receipt through completion, including estimated in-service dates, completion/receipt evidence, IT go-live dates for internally developed software, and leasehold improvement projects nearing go-live; coordinate capitalization when assets are ready for use.
• Review invoices and other support for potential capitalization, including intangible legal invoices, internally developed computer software, patents, leasehold improvements, and other long-lived asset costs; ensure costs are recorded to the proper asset class, entity, location, and cost center.
• Prepare monthly global lease accounting entries for ERP posting and distribution to entities; perform EMEA operating lease follow-up, EMEA capital lease adjustments, lease renewal interest-rate updates, new lease setup review, and rent and lease expense reporting by company and state.
• Perform recurring reviews of long-lived assets and intangibles, including fully depreciated equipment, fully amortized internally developed software, fully amortized patents, indefinite-lived intangible assets, internal software asset class reviews, and leasehold improvements, to identify obsolescence, impairment indicators, useful-life changes, or disposal opportunities.
• Coordinate fixed asset counts and related follow-up, including quarterly count procedures, annual count memoranda, selection of departments or asset populations, verification that assets are physically present and being utilized, and identification of fully depreciated unused assets for sale or disposal to avoid unnecessary property tax exposure.
• Prepare, update, and distribute recurring monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and schedules, including fixed asset downloads, asset reviews for cash flow statement support, long-lived asset percentage calculations, tax/book depreciation schedules, insurance valuation support, and property tax fixed asset listings by US location.
• Support Tax with quarterly and annual compliance requests, including property tax listings, tax/book depreciation, foreign subsidiary transfer listings, rent and lease expense by company and state, and other asset or lease schedules required for federal, state, and international tax filings.
• Support Legal/IP and external IP counsel processes by requesting patent lists from outside firms, reconciling patent listings to SAP, reviewing fully amortized patents for potential disposal, and maintaining appropriate support for capitalized legal and patent-related intangible assets.
• Complete year-end asset accounting processes, including fiscal year change, fixed asset year close, EMEA asset recharges, review of indefinite-lived intangibles, submission of disposals for fully depreciated equipment and fully depreciated/amortized internally developed software, and preparation of year-end fixed asset support.
• Support SEC reporting, external audit, and internal control requirements by preparing asset and lease schedules, researching complex accounting matters, providing support for financial statement footnotes, updating SOX narratives and controls, and participating in quarterly and annual audits and walkthroughs.
• Partner with FP&A, business owners, IT, Legal/IP, Tax, Cost Accounting, Accounts Payable, and global accounting teams to resolve asset and lease questions, update capital budget activity for monthly acquisitions, obtain go-live and disposal information, and provide guidance on documentation and submission timing.
• Oversee and partner with IT to maintain the global fixed and intangible asset approval workflow application in SharePoint; monitor submitted requests, troubleshoot workflow and access issues, coordinate enhancements or updates, and ensure requests are reviewed, approved, and completed in a timely manner.
• Maintain deadline-driven task management across monthly, quarterly, annual, tax, administrative safeguard, and ad hoc workstreams; proactively follow up on open items, escalate risks, and ensure recurring tasks are supported and completed within required timelines.
• Identify and implement process improvements for asset, intangible, depreciation, lease, tax, and reporting processes, including improvements to checklists, reconciliations, SAP reports, lease schedules, fixed asset downloads, and supporting documentation.
• Provide oversight, training, and support globally on fixed asset and leasing topics.
• Other ad hoc projects and duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting required.
• 3+ years fixed asset, and/or lease accounting experience required; 3+ years overall accounting experience required; international accounting experience preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of US GAAP related to capitalization, depreciation, amortization, long-lived assets, intangible assets, disposals, impairment indicators, and lease accounting; working knowledge of ASC 350, ASC 360, and ASC 842 preferred.
• Experience preparing month-end journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, income statement reviews, close schedules, variance analyses, and supporting documentation in a public-company or SOX-controlled environment.
• Experience with SAP fixed asset functionality or similar ERP fixed asset modules, lease accounting software, subledger-to-general-ledger reconciliations, and close/task management tools preferred.
• Ability to manage detailed recurring tasks across monthly close, quarterly reporting, annual close, tax compliance, audits, and ad hoc requests while meeting tight deadlines and maintaining accuracy.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, including ability to research variances, evaluate asset support, identify errors in depreciation or capitalization, and recommend correcting entries.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel reporting and analysis using formulas, pivots, lookups, reconciliations, and large fixed asset downloads.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with Tax, Legal/IP, FP&A, IT, operations, business owners, auditors, external counsel, and accounting team members.
• Self-directed, organized, and proactive, with a positive 'get it done' and 'can-do' mentality and the ability to follow up on open items across global teams.
• MAcc, MBA, and/or CPA is a plus.