Manager / Accounting

JAPAN AI (Geniee-group AI startup, ~240 people) seeks a Management / Accounting department-head candidate to build and advance the accounting, finance, disclosure and internal-control core, establishing a management structure that can withstand an IPO within two years (a CFO hire is planned; you'd eventually lead accounting/finance/management under the CFO). Work (assigned broadly by experience): 1) building and advancing the accounting/finance foundation (monthly/quarterly/annual closing, complex-transaction accounting-issue organization, corporate tax and tax-effect calculation, audit-firm communication, accounting-system selection/operation); 2) IPO prep and disclosure-structure building (accounting/finance/disclosure design, timely and statutory disclosure processes, external-party response, fundraising accounting issues); 3) financial strategy and management (cash-flow/working-capital management, investment decision support, management-indicator maintenance); 4) M&A (financial due diligence, financial/accounting/tax organization, PMI accounting-process integration, goodwill/intangible accounting); and 5) team management and organization building. Required (one of ①②, plus ③④): ① 3+ years as an accounting/finance head at an operating company (including complex accounting issues or interest in IPO); or ② 5+ years of audit-firm audit or operating-company accounting; ③ managing 3+ members; ④ CPA/USCPA or equivalent. Preferred: SaaS/IT management/accounting; M&A financial DD/PMI; IPO process; internal control/J-SOX. Full-time, salary 10–15M JPY/yr (with stock options), mostly in-office (1 remote day/week), based in Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo.