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General Manager, Accounting Department

Employer
Allianz
Location
Shinagawa, Japan
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 23, 2024
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Job Function
Accounting/Audit/Tax
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
Let's care for tomorrow. Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow. At Allianz Commercial, we are the global leader for insuring corporate and specialty risks in the Allianz Group. Whether it's aircraft, satellites, the world's biggest ships and tallest building, cyber-attacks, or climate change impacts, we have the major risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.

Summary of the Job:
  • Handling IFRS monthly/quarterly closing as well as JGAAP local closing.
  • Support Credit Control task supervising subordinates including EWB.
  • Supervise accounting transactions prepared by subordinates.
  • Review tax return data prepared by subordinates.

Key responsibilities of the job:
  • Accounting Activities: Complete accounting entries independently. Apply professional knowledge for accounting entries to OPUS and SAP for monthly closing as well as local GAAP annual closing.
  • Project Work: Contribute for efficiency improvement by improving E2E accounting work flow. Contribute for quality improvement for EWB for Credit Control activities.
  • Communication and Relations Management: Actively build relationship with other departments locally, regional/global counterparts, as well as independent auditors to smoothen accounting operation.
  • Global Standards & Governance: Aligning and collaboration with other CxO Governance functions in OE to remain apprised of project status, and ensure alignment of design decisions.
  • Best practice sharing: Participate/facilitate development of cross-domain solutions that combine knowledge of accounting processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
  • Responsible for General Accounting Matter: To be in charge for broad range of accounting and tax maters applying professional skills and knowledge.

Key Experience / Requirements / Skills:
  • Knowledge for Insurance law & regulation and to cope with the regulator
  • Accounting experience in non-life insurance company
  • Basic knowledge for income tax return preparation
  • Familiar to GL system, Windows, Teams, Office application, etc.
  • Japanese - fluent
  • English - business level

General skills:
  • Communication
  • Resilience
  • Compliance and governance
  • Positive attitude
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Leadership

Education:
  • University degree in Economics, Commerce or Business, etc.
  • CPA / Certificate of bookkeeping (1st grade) desirable
44934 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | Permanent

What's in it for you? Let's care about everything that makes you, you We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

Let's care for your financial wellbeing We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

Let's care for your opportunities to progress From career development and digital learning programmes to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.

Let's care for life's twists and turns From our support for flexible working, health, and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back.

Let's care for our society and our planet With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive, and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry, and our clients.

Care to join us? Allianz Commercial is a global corporate insurance carrier and part of Allianz Group. We provide risk consultancy, Property-Casualty insurance solutions and alternative risk transfer for a wide spectrum of commercial, corporate and specialty risks across 10 dedicated lines of business. Learn more about us by clicking here.

Allianz is an equal opportunity employer, and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Diversity of thinking is an important part of our company culture.

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