The Senior Accountant will manage financial reporting, compliance, and accounting processes for SmartNews and its subsidiaries.
About this role
This Account Manager role sits within the team handling high-involvement advertiser categories in SmartNews’s Japanese advertising business, including automotive, telecommunications, consumer electronics, real estate and finance. The team works on advertiser business challenges and contributes to growth in a major market, while collaborating with Account Executives and product teams.
The role focuses on analyzing advertising delivery data, proposing account improvements to advertisers and agencies, recommending KPIs based on business and marketing strategies, and building lasting client relationships. It also involves developing industry knowledge and feeding market insights back to the product organization. Applicants must have at least three years of digital advertising sales experience, particularly selling to advertisers, plus practical account management and direction experience from proposal through performance evaluation. They must understand the fundamentals of digital advertising, show strong commitment to client results, have experience using AI to advance or streamline work, and demonstrate native-level Japanese.
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