Ford Motor Company

Operating Lease, Acct Mgr

Ford Motor Company • $115K — $218K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
  • Strong analytical and technical accounting skills
  • Supervisory and leadership skills
  • Curiosity and confidence in financial accounting matters
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Self-driven with prioritization capabilities
  • Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Oversee accounting operations for Operating Lease and Company Car products
  • Supervise one analyst within the team
  • Research U.S. GAAP compliance and engage with Ford Accounting and PwC
  • Manage monthly close processes including journal entries and reconciliations
  • Prepare quarterly flux analyses for senior management reviews
  • Ensure compliance with SOX and internal controls
  • Support major finance initiatives like Tech Modernization and Group Reporting launches

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and paid parental leave options
  • Family building assistance including adoption and fertility treatments
  • Employee vehicle discounts and management leases
  • Tuition assistance for personal development
  • Active employee resource groups for diverse interests
  • Paid time off for community service activities
  • Generous holiday schedule, including a break between Christmas and New Year's
Full Job Description
Job Description

In this position...
  • This role provides accounting oversight for Ford Credit's Operating Lease and Company Car financial products, including supervision of one analyst.
  • The position is responsible for researching and applying appropriate U.S. GAAP guidance, partnering with Ford Accounting Policy and PwC as needed, and managing monthly close activities such as journal entries, account reconciliations, and footnote disclosures.
  • Key responsibilities include preparing quarterly flux analyses for senior management, operating lease titling trust monthly financial statements, and supporting 10-Q/K footnote automation in Workiva.
  • The role also ensures SOX compliance and internal controls, responds to cross-regional accounting inquiries, and supports strategic initiatives including the Ford Credit's Tech Modernization launch, annual controls review, and annual finance manual review.


Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Provide oversight and review of Ford Credit's Operating Lease and Company Car financial product
  • Provide oversight of one analyst
  • Research and identify the proper U.S. GAAP for Ford Credit initiatives, liaise with Ford Accounting Policy and PwC as required
  • Review monthly close related items, such as input of monthly journal entries and account reconciliations
  • Review various Ford Credit footnote disclosures and supporting schedules
  • Prepare high-level quarterly flux analysis supporting year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter views for senior management's use during quarterly financial statement reviews
  • Prepare operating lease titling entity monthly financial statements
  • Support Ford Credit 10-Q/K footnote automation in Workiva
  • Ensure proper internal controls and compliance with S-Ox requirements
  • Respond as necessary to accounting and reporting inquiries from other regions and other functional areas
  • Support Group Reporting launch and Tech Modernization team in their launch of Alfa
  • Support annual MCRP review
  • Support annual FM review


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
  • Strong analytical and technical accounting skills
  • Supervisory and leadership skills
  • Curiosity to explore uncharted areas of finance receivables accounting and self-confidence to deliver results
  • Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work well with cross-functional teams
  • Strong communication and presentation skills (written and verbal)
  • Self-driven, ability to prioritize and advance multiple assignments simultaneously
  • Technical accounting depth with strong GAAP knowledge, since the role requires original research and defensible positions with PwC and Accounting Policy
  • Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to build processes and frameworks where none exist yet, including willingness to explore uncharted areas of finance receivables accounting
  • Strong organizational skills to juggle close, disclosures, flux analysis, information requests, and system launches simultaneously
  • Leadership readiness for managing and developing the offshore analyst
  • Stakeholder management, political savvy, and strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
  • Adaptability; someone resistant to change would struggle
  • Self-direction, prioritizing multiple assignments without heavy oversight


Even better, you may have...
  • CPA experience preferred
  • Master's degree in Accounting

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.


This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: New Hire Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
* Ladders Estimates

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