Accounting Manager

JOB TITLE                                     Accounting Manager

REPORTING TO                             OTR/Inventory/Tax Senior Manager

LOCATION                                     Koto-ku Tokyo, Japan

MAIN PURPOSE

Our Group activities in Japan include 17 Brands which manage operates 200 boutiques with over 2,000 employees.  This role, as the Richemont Accountant, is part of the overall Richemont finance community and he/she is expected to be a real business partner with professional compliant mindset and problem-solving attitude.

In this position, you will be responsible for filling tax returns, managing and overseeing the entire operations of the OTR accounting section. OTR section is responsible for core part of Richemont Japan accounting, such as, management inventory, intercompany and tax accounts. Also, we take as incentives for group and statutory reporting are complete and accurate.

We are looking for an outstanding professional who possesses extensive knowledge in accounting procedures mandated by the company and the accounting standard (both JGAAP and IFRS) and attention to detail necessary to ensure accurate reporting to all areas.

This role is required to work closely with purchase to pay team members, Treasury and IT and other accounting professionals.  Expected to be the professional who is not only an accountant but also a team player who cooperates with colleagues and support our business activities with strong communication skill.  The position also will be responsible for some key initiatives and projects related to digitalization, paperless, simplification and productivity.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Key responsibility 1:  Overall management
• Execute, manage and oversee the daily operations of the team including:
• tax calculation and tax fillings
• sales and cogs accounts
• month and end-year closing
• sales and
• intercompany transaction, reconciliation and settlement
• subcontracting and import expenses
• inventory transaction including stock adjustment and provisions
• physical inventory inspection
• month/year and closing adjustment
• Lead and coach up to 2-3 members
• establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies and principles
• coordinate and complete annual audits
• improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions

• Key responsibility 2: Projects
• Implementation of paperless and accounting DX
• Process simplification & productivity
• System integration and upgrade
• New business / process developments/scheme implementation

PROFILES:

Experience:    

• Full around experience in accounting in business company or equivalent
• Experience in people management

Skills: 

• Attention to details, proactive and solution oriented, timely and qualitative
• Team-player, good relationship builder
• Knowledge of J-GAAP and IFRS preferred
• Excel and Financial system skills with full flexibility for new environment
• Strong in communication in verbal and writing for both English and Japanese
• SAP experience preferred

Behavioral competency:

• High level of integrity
• Structured, result-oriented and decision maker
• With teamwork thinking and behavior, positive mood-maker to motivate members
• Strong communication skills to pursue everything with passion and perfectionism
• Can manage politics and human/organizational relations under the matrix functions/lines
• Be able to work under uncertainty