Owns security operations and GRC across SmartNews products and infrastructure, building detection and response workflows, assessing AI and security risks, and improving ISMS compliance.
About this role
This Senior Accountant role at SmartNews sits within the Corporate team, working on consolidated group accounting across Japan and its domestic and overseas subsidiaries. Responsibilities include leading an assigned area of the accounting function: improving accounting processes and systems, handling monthly/quarterly/annual closing for SmartNews and its subsidiaries, evaluating accounting and tax treatment for new services and projects, preparing consolidated financial statements under IFRS, supporting quarterly and annual audits with external auditors, and participating in company-wide projects. Required: experience handling and approving general accounting operations (daily transactions through quarterly and year-end closing), and at least one year of consolidated accounting experience including overseas subsidiaries. Preferred: closing management experience, experience preparing disclosure documents (Companies Act financial statements, kessan tanshin, securities reports), accounting experience at an IT company, a venture company, or a foreign-affiliated/overseas-subsidiary company, and business-level English. Based in the Shibuya, Tokyo office. Visa sponsorship support is available for eligible candidates, including immigration-procedure assistance through a relocation support partner.
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