Senior Accountant OTR

Job description

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 inventory management (Coordinating Physical inventory, stock adjustment including provisions). OTR section is responsible for core part of Richemont Japan accounting, such as, management inventory, intercompany and tax accounts. We are also responsible for group and statutory reporting are compliant with laws and regulations.
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:  Inventory management
-    Execute, the daily operations of the team including:
•    Coordination and monitoring of physical inventory
•    Inventory transaction including stock adjustment and provisions
•    Month/year and closing adjustment
-    External audits support
-    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:    
•    3 years and + accounting experience in business company or equivalent is preferred.

 

Skills:    
•    Attention to details, proactive and solution oriented, timely and qualitative
•    Intermediate level in english communication and writing skill are preferred.
•    Team-player, good relationship builder
•    Knowledge of J-GAAP, tax and IFRS are preferred
•    Excel and Financial system skills with full flexibility for new environment
•    SAP experience is plus

 

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