The Senior Accountant will manage financial reporting, compliance, and accounting processes for SmartNews and its subsidiaries.
About this role
This role sits in SmartNews’s Next Generation Business Division, which builds new businesses and consumer products outside the existing SmartNews app. The position owns individual business-development initiatives for products such as Wanderland, taking partner and market opportunities through to measurable project outcomes.
The work covers market, competitor and prospective-partner research; support for business-model decisions involving pricing, packaging and revenue logic; and the discovery, negotiation and contracting of partnerships across content and IP, stores and partner companies, distribution, and technology vendors. The role also coordinates Product, Engineering, Legal, Sales and external partners from initial contact through launch, using AI tools such as generative AI to improve research, planning and execution while validating their output.
Applicants must have approximately two or more years of experience in business development, business planning or strategic partnerships. They must also be able to create decision-making documents, spreadsheets and slides, structure ambiguous information, and turn analysis into written recommendations. Business-level Japanese is required.
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