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Senior Accountant

American Tower Corporation

Atlanta, GA

Senior Accountant

American Tower Corporation

Atlanta, GA

May 14, 2025

Finance

Job Description

The Team

We are seeking a Senior Accountant to join American Tower’s Technical Transaction Group (TTG). TTG is responsible for performing, analyzing, and reporting on complex transactions for internal customers across the globe. Day to day you will focus on analyzing the financial aspects of the Company’s leases and its related assets, liabilities and properly recording the Company’s straight-line in the general ledger.

The Senior Accountant will obtain appropriate supporting documentation, partner cross-functionally and lead contract-related projects and audits in accordance with the company policies and relevant GAAP guidance. The incumbent will analyze requests to change terms of existing contracts and support internal customers with post-revision financial information in accordance with internal guidelines. The Senior Accountant will be able to understand and interpret high volumes of lease data and be able to summarize into a value-added analysis and financial close deliverables. Additionally, the incumbent will prepare journal entries, reports, and financial presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information to support external reporting requirements as well as local management requirements and reporting needs.

Our Core Principles are the foundation of our culture, and we’re focused on achieving continued success by thinking long-term, leading with values, and creating value with decisions. Come grow your career with us!

What You Can Offer Us

Perform monthly financial close activities, which include performing balance sheet reconciliations, booking journal entries and maintaining internal control documentation.
Prepare reports and financial presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information.
Review key business terms of various contracts to support internal customers’ needs. Prepare reports and financial presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information.
Perform audits on loaded contracts to ensure that financial terms were processed correctly; communicate audit findings to various business partners. Provide data and calculations to support internal and external audit requests.
Lead cross-organizational projects impacting land and tenant lease data; effectively communicate processes and collaborate on best practices.
Identify, and review with peers, situations when accounting guidelines present multiple interpretations for a particular lease and escalate to Manager for resolution as necessary; offer ideas for resolution to correct exceptions and prevent recurrence of issues going forward.
Stay informed about current Company practices and guidelines, including lease accounting guidance, master lease governance, and commencement date determination, to administer lease documents appropriately in the Oracle system.
Train new employees on processes and procedures; update training manual to reflect current procedures.
Develop relationships with the Lease Abstraction, Lease Administration, Land Management, Legal, Landlord Relations, and Finance departments to implement and/or support process improvement and develop best practices.
Other duties as assigned.

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
Fluency in Spanish required.
Minimum 3 years’ experience in billing, contract management, or finance required.
Oracle experience strongly preferred.
Ability to read and interpret complex contracts with multiple amendments and ensure the accounting complies with the Master Lease agreements and in accordance with Lease Accounting guidance.
Excellent attention to detail and strong system and analytical skills; able to understand complex processes.
Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite.

American Tower is a global digital infrastructure company serving customers through tower sites and other real estate solutions that support connectivity and opportunity, focused on achieving our vision of Building a More Connected World. Our success is rooted in the potential of our people and the power of local teams at our offices and sites across 25 countries.

We are one of the largest global Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and a publicly traded (NYSE:AMT), Fortune 500 Company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The next decade will be an exciting time as we evolve our infrastructure to meet tomorrow’s needs and position our people to elevate their impact, their potential, and our shared success. Come grow your career with us!

For more information about how American Tower is building a more connected world, visit americantower.com.

American Tower is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, reproductive decisions, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

The Team

What You Can Offer Us

Perform monthly financial close activities, which include performing balance sheet reconciliations, booking journal entries and maintaining internal control documentation.
Prepare reports and financial presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information.
Review key business terms of various contracts to support internal customers’ needs. Prepare reports and financial presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information.
Perform audits on loaded contracts to ensure that financial terms were processed correctly; communicate audit findings to various business partners. Provide data and calculations to support internal and external audit requests.
Lead cross-organizational projects impacting land and tenant lease data; effectively communicate processes and collaborate on best practices.
Identify, and review with peers, situations when accounting guidelines present multiple interpretations for a particular lease and escalate to Manager for resolution as necessary; offer ideas for resolution to correct exceptions and prevent recurrence of issues going forward.
Stay informed about current Company practices and guidelines, including lease accounting guidance, master lease governance, and commencement date determination, to administer lease documents appropriately in the Oracle system.
Train new employees on processes and procedures; update training manual to reflect current procedures.
Develop relationships with the Lease Abstraction, Lease Administration, Land Management, Legal, Landlord Relations, and Finance departments to implement and/or support process improvement and develop best practices.
Other duties as assigned.

What You Need to Succeed

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
Fluency in Spanish required.
Minimum 3 years’ experience in billing, contract management, or finance required.
Oracle experience strongly preferred.
Ability to read and interpret complex contracts with multiple amendments and ensure the accounting complies with the Master Lease agreements and in accordance with Lease Accounting guidance.
Excellent attention to detail and strong system and analytical skills; able to understand complex processes.
Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite.

About American Tower Corporation

With the rollout of new wireless technologies like 5G, the explosive growth in the Internet of Things (IoT), and the continued proliferation of smartphones worldwide, there’s never been a more exciting time to work in wireless.

American Tower is a Fortune 500, S&P 500, and Forbes Global 2000 company that provides the infrastructure for modern digital communications.

Starting in 1995 with 2,700 towers, our global portfolio today includes over 220,000 owned or managed sites around the globe. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, we have operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.

We’ve experienced exceptional growth over the past decade, and we believe that our outlook for the future is just as strong. If you like to be where things are happening, this is the place for you.

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Senior Accountant

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