Job Description

DP World are recruiting for a skilled and detail-oriented Capital & Lease Accountant to join our finance team. This role will focus on the accurate management, recording, and reporting of fixed assets and lease agreements, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and internal controls while supporting informed financial decision-making across the business.

About the role:

Maintain full responsibility for the end-to-end accounting of fixed assets, including tangible and intangible assets, from acquisition through to disposal. Record fixed asset acquisitions, disposals, transfers, and depreciation accurately within the accounting system. Create, implement, and monitor controls, procedures, and documentation for the effective management of fixed assets. Maintain and reconcile the fixed asset register and capital work-in-progress (CWIP) accounts to the general ledger on a monthly basis. Track project costs, close asset accounts upon project completion, and ensure alignment with capital budgets and management approvals. Conduct periodic physical asset counts, verifications, impairment reviews, and obsolescence assessments. Recommend asset disposals and provide analysis to support capital investment decisions. Prepare audit schedules related to fixed assets and leases, and support internal and external audit enquiries. Manage the Asset for Expenditure (AFE) process and monitor capital expenditure against approved budgets. Manage lease accounting in line with IFRS 16, including assessment of contracts, recognition of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities, and ongoing reporting. Prepare monthly lease accounting entries, reconciliations, forecasts, and disclosures. Collaborate with finance, project, and operational teams to ensure accurate capital and lease reporting. Identify and implement continuous improvements within capital and lease accounting processes. Support the Finance Manager and wider finance team with ad hoc analysis and reporting as required.

Your Key Skills:

AAT, ACCA, or equivalent accounting qualification, or demonstrable relevant accounting experience. Proven experience in capital or fixed asset accounting, ideally within a large or international organisation. Strong understanding of accounting principles, fixed asset accounting, and lease accounting under IFRS 16 / FRS 16. Experience managing fixed asset registers, depreciation calculations, lease reconciliations, and disclosures. Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements impacting asset and lease accounting. Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, and AARO. Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail. Proficient in spreadsheet use, data analysis, and financial reporting. Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively. Clear and confident communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams. A proactive and methodical approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.


With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 103,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future.


We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses - Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology - and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades. The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.


What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE

DP World is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We strongly believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We believe that employees are happiest when they're empowered to be their true, authentic selves. So, please come as you are. We can't wait to meet you.


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