Expense Management - Manager

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a foreign life insurance company that is part of one of the world's largest global financial groups and has a long history in the Japanese market. Since its entry into the Japanese market in the 1990s, we have been providing comprehensive financial services through its affiliated companies and focusing on providing innovative products and high quality services under the slogan of “customer centricity” backed by its strong financial base. We focus on providing innovative products and high quality services with a “customer-centric focus” backed by a strong financial base. We aim to contribute to Japanese society and continue to be a trusted partner to our customers.

Responsibilities

The Manager leads activities within the finance area and provides strategic direction. The role, working independently, is responsible for driving completion of financial, accounting and economic analyses. This role requires solid understanding of financial reporting, expense management and reporting and driving processes improvement.This job description does not represent a comprehensive listing of job duties that are required of the employee performing this role. We reserve the right to change duties or assign additional duties at any time with or without notice.
Main responsibilities:

• 80%
  • Prepare financial analysis, forecasting and function expense reporting.
  • Responsible for analyzing financial results to provide insightful financial information and narrative to management for decision making.
  • Partner with the Function Owners to provide timely, accurate and insightful expense forecasts to facilitate business decisions and to drive expense accountability of the functions. 
  • Partner with the Function Owner, to identify the spending trend and patterns, potential savings / accrual needed and area of potential spending to align with and achieve the company strategic goals. Provide monthly update to Regional Office and address any queries.
  • Review work performed by staff accountants and provide feedback.
  • Promote a culture of change management and encourages process improvement.
  • Actively look for and execute opportunities to improve existing processes in driving efficiency in the process and quality reporting.
  • Prioritizing and reprioritizing work deliverables and projects for internal clients based on changing business needs (deadlines, costs, scope of projects)
  • Manage and maintains relationships with critical stakeholders outside of formal authority.
  • Mentor and provides guidance to accounting staff.
• 20%                        
  • Collaborate Team Support
  • Share best practices with other team members and makes recommendations for process improvements.
  • Lead other team members on various projects and analyses.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent work experience
• At least 8 years of experience (less qualified candidate will be considered as Assistant Manager)
• Demonstrated strong analytical, planning, execution and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented, well-organized, and excellent communications skills.
• Be able to communicate and summarize complex issues to the audience and possesses advanced ability to draft management reporting narratives.
• Focus on stakeholders’ needs, foster teamwork and strong collaboration
• Demonstrates advanced proficiency in own discipline
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of accounting rules, regulatory rules and/or business processes as it pertains to the accountant's sphere of responsibility
• Demonstrates ability to lead complex cross BU or cross divisional processes or projects and effectively work with others.
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office applications
• Good English written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

• CPA preferred

Salary

8 - 12.5 million yen

Location

Tokyo