Tax Strategy Director Candidate

About this role

The Tax Strategy Director Candidate will lead tax work for Money Forward Group within Accounting Headquarters. The role goes beyond preparing tax returns: it optimizes group-wide tax costs, provides timely information for management decisions, and advises on tax risks and returns from the planning stage of reorganizations and new businesses. The position is expected to lead the department and create next-generation tax operations using AI and technology.

Responsibilities include standardizing and bringing forward tax-return processes, using tax incentives, and contributing as a first user of the company’s back-office SaaS products by proposing improvements from a tax and accounting perspective. Current initiatives include completing tax-effect materials, including tax-rate-difference analysis, on the business day after closing; strengthening international tax work such as transfer-pricing documentation and permanent-establishment risk management; and improving group-wide tax literacy through e-learning on donation risk, consumption tax, and permanent-establishment risk.

Required qualifications are at least three years of experience preparing and reviewing tax returns at a listed company or tax accountant corporation, the ability to involve related departments and drive projects, spreadsheet software skills, and experience using functions and features to automate or improve work. A continuous-improvement mindset is also required.

Preferred experience includes a certified public accountant or tax accountant qualification, tax-return practice under consolidated taxation or the group aggregation system, practical experience with tax adjustments or scheme planning for mergers, company splits, and qualified or non-qualified reorganizations, and experience leading and developing a small team while performing hands-on work as a player-manager.

The role is part of Accounting Headquarters, which supports a back-office SaaS business and uses its own products in accounting operations. It is a permanent, full-time position in Minato, Tokyo, with an annual salary of JPY 7,308,000–12,000,000. The monthly salary includes fixed allowances for 45 hours of statutory and prescribed overtime and 40 hours of late-night work.

The work system is flextime with eight standard hours, a 60-minute break, flexible hours from 7:00 to 22:00, and core time of either 10:00–15:00 or 9:30–14:30. The hybrid work arrangement requires at least two office days per week, with three or more recommended; days vary by team and may change with business or company conditions. A three-month probationary period applies.

Benefits include social insurance, nearby housing and relocation allowances, rent deduction, health and gynecological checks, flu vaccination, book-purchase support, a defined-contribution pension, an employee stock ownership plan, and discounts on specified services. Holidays include weekends, national holidays, paid leave, summer and winter leave, and year-end and New Year leave. A performance-based bonus may be paid semiannually to highly rated employees depending on company performance.