The Senior Accountant will manage financial reporting, compliance, and accounting processes for SmartNews and its subsidiaries.
About this role
This Lead role sits in SmartNews’s CEO’s Office and initially works closely with the Japan Advertising Business Division. The team handles company-wide initiatives, CEO-directed projects, and targeted support for business divisions, with this position focused on initiatives that can materially affect the domestic advertising business.
The role leads the planning and market launch of new advertising solutions across sales, product, and engineering, using the marketing 4Ps. It also drives cross-functional growth initiatives and alliances, performs ad hoc analysis to identify business-critical insights, supports company-wide partnership work, and researches CEO-directed topics before turning them into projects and execution plans. The posting specifically requires experience contributing to projects demanding logical thinking, problem solving, and execution; strong slide-writing, spreadsheet, and document-writing skills; effective communication across teams; and experience evaluating and responsibly applying generative AI tools, including checking their outputs and limitations. Native-level Japanese is required.
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