Senior Accountant (Japanese speaking)

Job Description

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Come join a dynamic team where your experience from similar roles your attention to detail and communication skills can make a real impact!

Please note that working proficiency in both written and spoken English and Japanese language will be required to effectively support APAC market including Japan.

The Accountant plays an important role in establishing a sustainable AR department in the BSO and will be actively contributing to the development of a top-performing department working with Accounts Receivables.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position

Core Responsibilities

Deliver a high performance customer- and service-oriented culture for Customer Account Services (CAS) - Accounts Receivables processes and support the Team Lead in handling other ad-hoc tasks.

This will include:

• Manage debt collection activities for the assigned countries within APAC region portfolio

• Follow up on overdue and collection

• Fronting Customers to resolve dispute and payment issues

• Release order according to policies & Credit Limit Utilization

• Reconciliation of customer accounts and sending of statement of accounts and sending weekly aging report

• Provision calculations check (doubtful & bad debt) adjustments

• Debtor Reporting & Black line tasks

Other Responsibilities include:

• Providing advice to Sales/Country/General Manager with regards to payment risks of customers

• Providing recommendation to Finance Business Partners in managing the Market Accounts Receivable aging and risk exposure

• Actively and timely responds to internal/external customer requests to fulfill their expectations

• Ensuring the aging and bad debts of the assigned BU meets the KPIs

• Driving optimization initiatives within own functional areas and ensuring compliance of company policies and procedures and smooth operations

• Understanding the value of service provided and suggest continuous improvement ideas to enhance productivity and efficiency

Play your part in our team succeeding

The CAS department supports the LEGO Group by consistent high-quality and customer oriented execution of AR processes including collaborator management. This enables the BSO to succeed in delivering significant value to the LEGO Group organization.

The Senior Accountant plays a meaningful role in establishing a sustainable AR department in the BSO. Were seeking individuals who are motivated and enthusiastic about playing an active role in the growth of a high-achieving department. Collaboration process excellence quality fun and a positive work environment are central to our culture.

Do you have what it takes

Minimum of 4 years of demonstrated working experience from Finance function and preferably experience in international accounting Experience of working and driving a highly collaborative environment in a global setting promoting coherence and the end-to-end perspective

• Has significant business and market understanding (experience) at operational and tactical level

• Excellent inter-personal skills and can communicate effectively with both internal and external customers

• Personal drive and initiative excellent collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other key collaborators

• Strong negotiation and persuasion skills to achieve desired goals

• Ability to keep the SLA promises and has a sense of urgency

• Good Crisis Management & Problem-Solving skill to be able to resolve issues and navigate challenges with proficiency and insight

• Confidence in making well-informed and justifiable decisions within ones functional area

• Microsoft Office and SAP at experienced level

• Other Responsibilities include:
  • Providing advice to Sales/Country/General Manager with regards to payment risks of customers
  • Providing recommendation to Finance Business Partners in managing the Market Accounts Receivable aging and risk exposure
  • Actively and timely responds to internal/external customer requests to fulfill their expectations
  • Ensuring the aging and bad debts of the assigned BU meets the KPIs and coordinating the corrective actions to support/back-up the AR Manager
  • Executing optimization initiatives within own functional areas and ensuring compliance of company policies and procedures and smooth operations
  • Building and fostering good relationships with senior stakeholders and demanding customers to meet their needs
  • Strategic collaboration with the Order to Cash stakeholders to cater to their service needs and smoothen the operations
  • Proactively supporting the service needs including advices to business teams challenge business on credit risk drive improvement in DSO and overdue

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time including prior to any advertised closing date. So if youre interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Whats in it for you

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount We know youll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible youll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team youll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group where everyone feels safe valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeksto encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex gender identity or expression race/ethnicity national origin sexual orientation disability age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Childrens Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Childrens Rights.

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