Financial Control Manager | フィナンシャルコントロールマネージャー

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Job details

Company overview

Our customer is a self described "Assistance Company". The company is a medical related firm, B2B, and is privately owned.

Responsibilities

The Financial Control Manager will be responsible for the financial control of all legal entities under their control, ensuring the execution of all management and statutory financial accounting, secretarial governance, taxation, foreign exchange management, cash flow management and all related regulatory compliance.The role will also require the management of good working relationships with all external stakeholders (auditors, tax consultants, banks, suppliers) and internal stakeholders (financial analysts, working capital) to ensure compliance with accounting standards and reporting requirements.The Financial Control Manager will maintain and ensure that existing processes fulfill business requirements and objectives, and will identify any areas of improvement to promote positive changes to finance.The position will require an excellent knowledge of accountancy standards, local regulatory requirements and good technical capability.
Main responsibilities:

• Ownership and execution of all financial control for the legal entities under your responsibility (described above), for both management and statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, regulatory standards and reporting requirements, including but not limited to:
  • Preparation of timely and accurate monthly management accounts
  • Annual consolidation packs for group audit
  • Statutory annual financial statements
  • Regulatory returns including Vat returns, corporation tax and statistical submissions
  • Corporate secretarial governance and compliance
• Ownership and monthly control of the balance sheet, including accounts receivable, accounts payable and intercompany balances ensuring processes and compliance reviews in place to avoid risk of misstatement
• Manage day to day relationships with the external auditors, banks and tax consultants
• Ensure proper functioning of treasury relationships to ensure that cash holding and cash flow targets are achieved, including cash flow forecasting, reporting and management
• Ensure transfer pricing documentation is in place and maintained for all legal entities
• Manage the foreign exchange exposure of your legal entities, including both balance sheet and cash flow hedging ensuring that the results are correctly interpreted, analysed and reported
• Ensure that the GAPP, GSS SOP and KPI are maintained, applied and respected by both the business and GSS
• Closely monitor and well manage Working Capital KPI i.e. collection of AR, month end minimum cash requirements, CIT, DSO etc.
• Lead projects to improve existing business processes and increase efficiency, and to implement new finance systems and policies
• Supervise, actively manage and develop his/her team and direct reports
• Fulfill any ad hoc responsibilities as defined by your line managers

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Strong knowledge of IFRS and local GAAP
• Good knowledge of local tax requirements
• Be experienced in foreign exchange and cash flow management
• Excellent advanced knowledge of Excel
• Person with drive for improvement and excellence
• Strong capability to adapt to necessary changes, and to lead changes
• Able to work under pressure, deliver results and observe deadlines
• Hands-on with day-to-day operations
• Be independent and firm, at the same time a team player
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to deal with conflicting demands and priorities

Preferred qualifications:

• A qualified accountant from an audit practice background

Salary

8 - 10 million yen

Location

Tokyo