Tax Specialist
Japan’s largest mobile payments platform (~75M users); SoftBank/LY Corporation fintech JV; 40% equity holder of Binance Japan.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About PayPay
PayPay Corporation is a Tokyo-based fintech company operating Japan’s leading QR/mobile payment service, founded 2018 as a SoftBank/Yahoo Japan (LY Corporation) joint venture, with banking (PayPay Bank), insurance and securities offerings. In October 2025 PayPay acquired a 40% equity stake in Binance Japan, making the crypto exchange an equity-method affiliate.
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About the Role
You support business growth through tax expertise. You respond to tax audits, handle tax filings and tax-effect accounting under the group tax consolidation system, and provide internal tax consultations. Depending on your experience, you assess preferential tax measures, build tax processes, and work on international tax, transfer pricing documentation, Pillar Two, and M&A projects.
Requirements
- Practical experience with tax filings
- Accounting knowledge equivalent to Japanese Bookkeeping Level 2
- Experience improving operations or promoting projects in accounting or tax
- A tax accountant qualification or passed subjects of the tax accountant examination is desirable
Responsibilities
- Respond to tax audits
- Prepare tax filings under the group tax consolidation system
- Handle tax-effect accounting under JGAAP and IFRS
- Respond to internal tax consultations
- Assess the application of preferential tax measures
- Build tax-related business processes
- Prepare transfer pricing documentation
- Support Pillar Two and international tax projects
- Support M&A projects
Benefits
- Hybrid workstyle
- Super flex work system with no core hours
- Weekends and public holidays off
- Year-end and company-designated holidays
- Annual paid leave
- Personal leave
- Health insurance
- Employees' pension insurance
- Employment insurance
- Workers' compensation insurance
- Corporate defined contribution pension plan
- Some salary can be received through a PayPay account
