Accountant

Skills

About the Role

You will manage accounting and financial closing activities for new services and campaign initiatives. You will review monthly and quarterly closing materials, assess revenue recognition and accounting treatment, manage accounts receivable, and prepare journal entries. You will also standardize processes with business departments, establish operational rules and manuals, automate work using AI, and support team members’ work and progress.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of accounting experience at a listed company or a company in a growth phase
• Knowledge equivalent to Level 2 or higher of the Japanese Bookkeeping Certification
• Experience independently performing monthly and quarterly closing activities, including document reconciliation, journal entries, balance verification, and variance analysis
• Experience aggregating and analyzing data using Excel functions such as IF and VLOOKUP and pivot tables
• Knowledge of IFRS 15 and new revenue-recognition accounting standards, or willingness to learn them

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly and quarterly closing activities, including document reconciliation, account and amount verification, review of prepared materials, and variance analysis
• Assess accounting treatment and revenue recognition for campaign initiatives
• Manage accounts receivable, including recording, reconciliation, and balance management
• Prepare journal entries
• Standardize processes in collaboration with business departments
• Establish decision criteria, operating rules, and manuals for exceptional cases
• Coordinate and negotiate with relevant departments
• Drive work automation and efficiency improvements using AI and other tools
• Manage team members’ work, monitor progress, and support task completion

Benefits

• Super-flexible working hours with no core hours
• Weekends, public holidays, year-end/New Year holidays, and company-designated holidays
• Annual paid leave of 14 days in the first year, prorated by joining month and usable from the start date
• Personal leave of 3 or 5 days in the first year and 5 days annually thereafter
• Social insurance
• Defined-contribution pension plan