Sr Accountant (Contract)

The role

This person will provide accounting oversight for Fixed Assets, Leases, and Intangible Assets. They will act as a business partner to various functional teams and lead process improvement initiatives.

What you will do

• Provide accounting oversight for Fixed Assets, Construction in Progress (CIP), Leases, and Intangible Assets.
• Review capitalization assessments for compliance with company policies and IFRS requirements.
• Coordinate with Facilities to identify lease additions, modifications, terminations, impairments, and sublease arrangements.
• Support month-end and quarter-end close activities including reconciliations, journal entries, and variance analysis.
• Act as primary accounting contact for business partners in Facilities, IT, Corporate Planning, Procurement, and AP.
• Provide guidance to business stakeholders on capitalization policies, expense recognition, and asset useful lives.
• Evaluate existing accounting processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for automation.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to streamline workflows and improve financial reporting.
• Provide day-to-day oversight and guidance to the outsourced accounting team.
• Support internal and external audit requests by preparing documentation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of general ledger accounting, financial close processes, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience with Fixed Assets, Lease Accounting, and Intangible Assets accounting.
• Working knowledge of IFRS, including IAS 16, IAS 38, IFRS 16, and IAS 36.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience identifying, implementing, and driving accounting process improvements.
• Advances excel skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment within very tight deadlines.
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to research independently and efficiently.

Nice to have

• CPA/CA or similar preferred
• Experience within a multinational organization preferred
• Recent SAP/S4 HANA experience strongly preferred

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees.

About the company

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. It is a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation and a dynamic technology company.