RTR Senior Analyst - Japanese Speaker (Shared Service Center)

Our client is the business services centre providing finance and accounting services to their group companies in the Asia Pacific region. Services provided include Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Accounting and Reporting

• Responsible for the management of the month-end closing process, including posting of month end journals, preparation of inter-company cross charges, ensuring accurate, transparent, and timely reporting for monthly, quarterly, and yearly results.
• Ensure accounting standards and policies are implemented and observed for both internal (US GAAP compliant) and external - local GAAP and fiscal reporting requirements.
• Drive core control processes such as balance sheet reconciliations ensuring these are prepared timely, for all accounts and are reconciled to a high quality with all items understood.
• To ensure clear communication of accounting issues identified and make sure these issues are tracked, resolved promptly and processes improved to prevent recurrence of the issue.
• Manage audit process with both internal and external auditors ensuring statutory filings are made on time and accurately in liaison with Regional / Country Controllers.
• Drive process improvement initiatives.
• Support all new ERP & support systems implementations ensuring these are configured, tested, and rolled out seamlessly without impact on control, timeliness or accuracy.
• Drive management reporting and initiatives to improve / achieve targets set on key KPIs / Controllership Scorecard.
• Support Adhoc Projects

• Qualified Accountant with 2 years post – qualification experience in similar role.
• Experience in working in a shared services team is an added advantage.
• Good knowledge of MS Office.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills in English & Japanese (JLPT N2 and above)
• Good interpersonal & influencing skills to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Highly organized with the ability to complete multi-tasks in a timely manner.
• High team spirit and commitment, systematic and target-oriented working style.
• Must possess high level of integrity and a positive working attitude.