Senior Accountant

【求人No NJB2226032】
■Job Function/Purpose
As a senior accountant you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information handling various accounting functions and showcasing strong organization skills to prioritize deadlines and multitask effectively. This position covers to track day to day activities tax and audit. Position’s responsibilities include establishing financial status by developing and implementing systems for collecting verifying and reporting information. Position will work closely with outsourcing vendor and international finance team. This role requires extensive background in accounting tax and financial reporting.

■Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities
＜Accounting＞
・Process and book all spending requests properly and timely to make sure financial statements captures all transactions accurately
・Ensure the general ledger maintaining accurate and up to date records
・Prepare and complete month end closing activities year end closing activity including the preparation review and posting of journal entries.
・Perform mandatory accounting controls during every month close to maintain integrity of our financial statements.
・Ensure that the financial records correctly and accurately reflect the financial performance of the company in accordance with US GAAP and statutory requirement
・Perform fixed assets works included updating deprecation schedule revieing request of fixed assets disposal updating deprecation expenses on disposal and transfer
・Maintain master files
・Issue payment request for AP
・Monitor AP aging
＜Cash management＞
・Prepare payment list and enter the payments into e banking system as initiator and make sure that all approval is in time from approvers.
・Responsible for daily bank reconciliation including bookkeeping
・Maintain bank master and vendor information
・Process cash balance check and reconciliation
・Prepare and handle bank checks bank statements receipt and payment scripts
＜Financial Reporting＞
・Prepare accounting reports required by the global team
・Respond to inquiries from head office providing comprehensive and timely information to meet the reporting requirements
・Prepare periodic BS and PL review files
・Prepare and submit accurate financial information to all stakeholders’ timely taxations customs duties
・Handle to implement the timely preparation and submission of financial reports by managing other department personnel within established local schedules
＜Audit Tax＞
・Work with tax advisors to ensure that all changes in tax regulation are evaluated in advance
・Prepare and organize all necessary information for audit and tax filling and respond inquiries from internal / external auditors and tax advisors.
・Ensure and work for internal control relative to finance in place according to Sox requirements from headquarter
＜Other＞
・Support accounting project localizing to implement in finance area
・Keep good relationship with other HbI network in Finance and other functions as needed
・Perform and support ad hoc projects as required

■Experience/Skills/Education Requirements
・Education/Degrees: Bachelor’s degree from four year college/university with major in Finance Accounting
・Certificates/Licenses: Bookkeeping License Boki greater than 2 class
・Special Skills:
　Native level in Japanese and business competency in English
　Proficient in Microsoft Office especially Excel
・Years of experience: Longer than 7 years of hands on experience in accounting and tax filling
・Type of experience: Accounting Tax Audit

■Preferred experience skills and education those are not required for job but beneficial to role （i.e. bi lingual）.
＜Requirements＞
・Ability to do monthly/quarterly/ year end closing and tax filling
・Proven knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles practices standards laws and regulations
・Ability to manipulate large amounts of data
・Retail/Wholesale/Manufacturing industries experience is a plus
・Knowledge of general bookkeeping or accounting theory and principle difference between Japan GAAP and US GAAP is a plus