Job Description


Job Summary:
The accountant will perform daily accounting activities in Japan and prepare accounting deliverables.

The accountant may be partnered with junior staff where the company deems fit and is expected to guide them to deliver tasks efficiently.

The accountant must embrace ADM's culture of good collaboration with BU Finance and various stakeholders for respectively projects expected of all employees.

Main Responsibilities

Daily Bookkeeping:
manage day-to-day financial transactions, including processing supplier invoices, incoming receipt and payments approval.

Bank reconciliation cash forecast:

regular reconciliation for bank statements and intra account balances to ensure cash accuracy; perform weekly and quarterly cash forecast.

T&E settlement:
Booking of T&E related transactions

Inventory and costing:
Understanding of inventory valuation and costing concept, responsible for COGS calculation and posting.

FX and hedges:
Understanding FX and hedge concept, responsible for entering FX hedges and monitoring FX exposure.

Monthly close activities:

Preparation and posting of journals, financial upload and other reporting packages (IBM/WebJV), intercompany confirmation and preparation of balance sheet reconciliation.

Monthly Activities:
Preparation of intercompany circling templates, sales information via I-Cargo and other routine submission.

Master Data Maintenance:
responsible for creation & maintenance of products, vendors and customer records in various systems (legacy, informatica and SAP).

Statutory Reporting:
Assist with statutory financial reporting , tax filing and monthly tax payments, in collaboration with line manager.

Ad Hoc activities:
Support finance team with various ad-hoc activities, as required. Work closely with various stakeholders to support business objectives and enhance financial performance.

Requirements 2.Experience/knowledge of accounting daily operation. 3.Management experience / skill

Experience/knowledge of Accounting for American multinational company
Working Experience in finance or accounting at multinational company is essential.
Reporting Experience to US or other head office is essential.
High diversity experience is essential.
Outline of US GAAP, IFRS and US TAX knowledge are important.
Internal audit experience is important.
Cross functional organization knowledge or experience are essential.
Working in large multinational company and cross functional communication experience is important.
Solid financial and accounting knowledge / education are essential.
Because we must handle two reporting entities, using different ERP systems by manually. Statutory report must be prepared manually.
Closing, reporting, tax filing experience are essential.
JGAAP and Japan taxation knowledge is essential.
Minimum 5 years of experience in finance or accounting area is essential.
Tax audit is important and Financial audit experience is a plus.
Strategic planning / FPA / budgeting experience is a plus.
ICP / TPA knowledge and its tax filing knowledge are important.
People skill and experience are important for working as a team.
Time management / closing schedule management is essential.
Project managing skills / experience is important.
Communication over departments or countries is important. Must keep good relations with SCM, sales, corporate functions and others.
Other necessary experience/knowledge for this position.
Mind to acquire new knowledge and create new rule are important.
Should be a person who can take a chance to improve.
B to B business or Food manufacturing or Food related industry experience is important.
Knowledge for import / export business flows and operation flows are essential. Because this company control business in Korea also.
Experience working in matrix management organization and reporting to both local management team and global/regional function team are important.
IT knowledge for accounting and general IT knowledge are essential.
SAP / similar ERP system implementation experience or system development experience is plus. Company will exchange its current systems to SAP in near future.
Mind for good results and continuous improvement is important.
Experience in finance operation flow integration or organization integration are plus. Because Company is changing its operation and organization.
Knowledge of SAP, Plaza, Microsoft Dynamics Navision are plus
College / Master (Accounting) degree is preferred.
PC/IT skill is necessary (Excel/PowerPoint, group software, win-PC).
Language skills – written and verbal in both Japanese and English for day to day business interface are essential.

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