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Accounting specialist

Last update 10.01.2025

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Job Title:

Accounting specialist

Department:

Accounting

Report Line:

Head of Accounting

Position Purpose

The Accounting P2 staff is responsible for

"Proper accounting bookkeeping operation with practical accounting ledger maintenances for following company accounting and tax control matters.”

1. General ledger management 

2. Monthly closing

3. Quarterly closing

4. Other accounting related affairs

Responsibilities

Responsible of following role with support from supervisors

Direct Responsibilities

1. General ledger management

>Initiate/maintain standard journals including auto feeding journals from other systems.

>Journal creation and entry (or check and posting if any needs of posting person absence)

>Initiate account creation and inventory review/closing control on general ledger.

>Fixed asset management.

>Support non-standard journal creation and listing its record.

>To maintain procedures above.

2.Mothly closing

>To manage of standard journal bookkeeping.

>Set up/Aging control on sensitive accounts of AP/AR.

>Self-reconciliation initiator.

>Trial balance extraction for bank reconciliation.

>Journal transferring from JGAAP to IFRS ledger.

>Journal filing (until digital ledger act deployment into the system)

>Initiate ledger period open/close and TB extraction.

>Outside reporting.

3. Quarterly closing

>Support closing schedule set up and negotiation.

>Support to calculation of Corporation tax, Consumption tax, enterprise tax, business office tax.

>Outside reporting.

>Accounting audit support.

Contributing Responsibilities

4.IFRS closing

>Support IFRS closing.

>Support IFRS closing audit.

Others

>To participate and contribute to the special projects or strategic initiatives of the company.

Business Knowledge 

  1. Insurance Accounting under Japan and International standards (JGAAP, IFRS is plus)
  2. Transversal expertise across various insurance business lines is a plus

Technical Experience / Competencies 

  1. Insurance accounting and tax
  2. Active communication/negotiation skills
  3. Proficient in MS Office

Behavioral Competencies

  1. Organization and execution within a complex environment
  2. Positive, self-driven, dynamic and able to work in a matrix organization with team spirit

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills:

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to share / pass on knowledge

Transversal Skills:

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to develop and adapt a process 

Education Level:

Bookkeeping level 2nd or above.

Challenging Junior CPA, Junior USCPA, CMA, CFA or equivalent is plus.

Others: (if any)

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