Accounting staff or manager of group accounting - Accounting Section, Finance and Accounting Strategy Department (FASD)

Job Description:

Business Overview 

Rakuten Group’s mission is to contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. We provide over 70 various services such as online shopping mall “Rakuten Ichiba”online travel service “Rakuten Travel”, online banking service “Rakuten Bank” and others including sports businesses. 

Department Overview 

This department is responsible for accounting and finance of Rakuten Group subsidiaries and businesses.  

 In the telecommunications business, we have entered the carrier business with innovative technology and forward-thinking spirit, and continue to take on the challenge of providing attractive services. 

In order to create innovative services of a global standard, we are promoting the creation of systems and environments that enable each and every employee to challenge his or her own potential to the fullest and expand the scope of his or her activities. 

 Finance and Accounting Strategy Department consists of 3 groups - Corporate Accounting Group, Business Accounting Group and Fixed Assets Management Group - and is responsible for the overall financial accounting area. 

Position: 

Why We Hire 

Strengthen the organization 

Position Details 

Responsible for accounting operation for the organizations in charge 

Corporate Accounting Group 

- Manage Financial Statements (stand-alone and consolidation reporting), and Companies Act 

- Correspond with accounting treatment under IFRS, JGAAP and Tax Law for new services 

- Accounting for HR-related such as personnel costs, stock options, etc.) 

- Establishment of internal allocation process and guidelines 

- M&As and Organization restructuring, etc. 

Business Accounting Group 

- Arrangement of issues in revenue recognition, arrangement of business flow, journal entry 

- AR reconciliation , customer ledger management 

- Calculate loss provision and issuing invoices 

- Accounting treatment and accounting issues related to IFRS15 

- Accounting treatment and accounting issues related to inventories 

- COGS control, accrual management 

- Cost allocation  

- Support for all payment operations 

- Arrangement of issues in cost recognition, arrangement of business flow, journal entry 

- Expense settlement support, remittance, supplier ledger management 

 
Fixed Assets Management Group 
- Establishment of operational flows/guidelines and proceed accounting operation for company’s fixed assets 
- Manage capex/opex scope in accordance with IFRS, JGAAP and Tax Law 
- Physical inventory checks 

- Lease management (including IFRS16) 

- Implementation of a fixed asset management system 
- Other fixed asset related work in general 

Mandatory Qualifications: 

Required past experience 

- Accounting operational experience more than 5 years 

- Overall knowledge for accounting and tax 

- Business-level Japanese

Required competency 

- Responsibility (be able to understand, think through and conclude for work completion) 

- Adaptability and flexibility (be able to respond to changes beyond your role or responsibilities) 

- Driving force (be able to take or encourage actions continuously to move things forward) 

- Challenging spirit (be able to embrace team to grow up by setting goal for the each personal)  

Desired Qualifications: 

- Work experience with SAP 

- CPA/US-CPA/Tax Accountant 

- IT Passport

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Languages:

English (Overall - 2 - Intermediate), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)