The Home Office Accounting Operations Team is responsible for Revenue Accounting, Real Estate Accounting, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Payroll Accounting and Inventory Control. The Real Estate Accounting Auditor position is responsible for auditing landlord invoices against lease language to ensure accuracy and drive savings. The successful candidate will be detail oriented and a critical thinker with the ability to recognize trends in year-over-year data.

This job is located at our Global Home Office in Columbus, Ohio.

What Will You Be Doing? 

• Auditing landlord charges against lease language for accuracy
• Minimizing landlord charges through auditing and analytics from prior years
• Utilizing CoStar (Real Estate Lease Management System) to create and update new leases and renewals within the system
• Establishing mutually beneficial working relationships with landlords
• Managing your time and priorities to maximize savings
• Communicating payment status to team analysts to ensure accurate forecasting
• Responsibilities are divided by store. Each auditor is responsible for a subset of stores. Domestically, this is broken out by landlord. Internationally, this is broken out by country
• Anything that gets paid to a landlord (with the exception of store maintenance, store construction, and some utilities through CASS) gets paid through this team. Payables managed by this team must be defined by a lease.
• Individual responsibilities:
  • Auditing, processing, disputing, etc. all invoices sent to A&F from landlords.
  • Tracking savings from auditing invoices.
  • Processing all checklists for stores as deals are executed.
  • Renewals, new stores, closed store, storage, relief, etc.
  • Managing relationship with landlord as it relates to outstanding balances, calculations, inquiries.
  • Managing NMVPs for real estate vendors in their store portfolio.
  • Providing store payment information to cross functional partners such as RE Finance, RE Accounting, Utilities, Legal, Tax, etc.
  • Monitoring mall co-tenancy for stores in their portfolio.
  • Monthly variance analysis for store activity
  • Building weekly/monthly rent run files
  • Ad Hoc Requests/Sprints from AP
• Country/Region Specific responsibilities:
  • UK & Ireland: Business Rates (local property taxes). These payments are paid directly to local councils rather than the landlord. 
  • France: Specific France Taxes CFE & Tascom 
  • APAC: All Asia sales reporting is done manually outside of CoStar

What Do You Need To Bring? 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting, or relevant experience
• Ability to understand different perspectives & priorities necessary to successfully manage portfolio
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, creative, engaged, flexible team player
• Organized with the ability to multi-task & problem solve in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent business communication skills for interaction with people at various levels of the organization
• CoStar Real Estate Lease Management System and working Excel knowledge a plus
• A collaborative approach to working with cross-functional partners to achieve the vision of the brand 

Our Company 

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) is a global, digitally-led, omnichannel specialty retailer of apparel and accessories catering to kids through millennials with assortments curated for their specific lifestyle needs.  

Our Values 

Our corporate purpose of being here for you on the journey to being and becoming who you are, fuels our customer-led brands and our global associates. We lead with this purpose and always put our people first, which is evidenced by our Great Place to Work™ Certification, as well as being named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign. In addition to equitable compensation and benefit offerings, including flexibility and competitive Paid Time Off, we offer a range of educational and engagement opportunities, including various Associate Resource Groups, volunteer opportunities and additional time off to give back to our global communities.  

What You'll Get

As an Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) associate, you’ll be eligible to participate in a variety of benefit programs designed to fit you and your lifestyle. A&F is committed to providing simple, competitive, and comprehensive benefits that align with our Company’s culture and values, but most importantly – with you! We also provide competitive incentives to reward the commitment our associates have for moving our global business forward:  

• Incentive bonus program
• 401(K) savings plan with company match
• Annual companywide review process
• Flexible spending accounts
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Associate assistance program
• Paid parental and adoption leave
• Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
• Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Mobile Stipend
• Paid time off & one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community
• Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are “work from anywhere” days for most roles & six work from anywhere weeks per year)
• Seven associate wellness half days per year
• Onsite fitness center
• Merchandise discount on all of our brands
• Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
• Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
• Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU!

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER