How are your teams structured to support Fixed Assets, Project Accounting and Lease Accounting? I am defining a Global COE and wondering if anyone would be willing to share how you are organized and what is part of your "service catalog".

When I was in an accounting manager role, fixed assets, project, and lease accounting areas were under me, which was ideal (other than the fact that those areas weren’t the most glamorous areas of accounting) because those areas often intersect. When I moved roles and the duties transitioned, they ended up having to separate some between managers. Fixed assets and project accounting are under one manager, and lease accounting is under a different manager because at our company lease accounting is large with medium complexity.

Our new structure: In fixed assets, there is one fixed asset accountant who reviews purchase order requisitions to ensure proper coding, works with departments to ensure non-project assets are put in service at the correct time with the correct life, reports disposals, maintains the fixed asset roll forward, and works with the lease accountant to ensure leased assets are accounted for correctly. The lease accountant fills out a template and is responsible for reading and understanding the lease. The fixed asset accountant does the data entry into the system, but if an error is found, it's on the lease accountant to document or explain, unless the data was just entered into the system incorrectly. The fixed asset accountant also prepares the overall financial statement tables, footnotes, and other audit support. Any underlying audit questions about construction in progress or projects would be answered by the project accountant. In project accounting, we have two employees - one lead and one assisting. The lead project accountant has extensive fixed asset experience, so they answer most capitalization questions from departments. They work to ensure assets are put in service at the correct time and inform the fixed asset accountant when to capitalize. Fixed assets rely on them because of their knowledge of the status of the projects. Project accounting also provides capital budget reporting the cash flow proof support for the change in fixed assets. For lease accounting, we have two accountants because it's a large area, split into real estate and equipment leases. We use software to track and account for leases. Each accountant for their assigned area records entries prepares footnotes, ensures the accuracy of financials, and makes sure leases are paid properly. 

We use a third party systems to manage above, see costar and deploy at your organization.

We have a Centralized Fixed Assets Team that performs these processes. 
1. Review of all Capital Purchase Requisitions to ensure correct set of Assets in ERP Application (SAP).
2. Review of Assets Under Construction ageing to seek confirmation from Business Unit Capital Coordinators for moving assets to depreciating assets category.
3. Maintaining Global Fixed Assets Register showing both Assets Under Construction and depreciating assets.
4. Accrual for Capital Purchases and depreciation accrual at the end of each period.
5. Review of all Internal Use Software Projects for their amortization accrual and posting as the projects go live.
6. Review of assets disposal requests both for Corporate Assets and Customer Contract Assets on Books for booking Gain / Loss, impairment or acceleration of depreciation as they case may be. 
7. Control of Capital Leases and keeping their useful life in line with the Lease Term.
8. Physical Verification of assets as defined the Fixed Assets Policy. The Policy defines High, Medium and Low risk assets and high-risk assets are verified every year. The medium and low-risk assets are verified by rotation so as to ensure 100% coverage of all our 60000+ assets in a cycle of 3 years.