Japanese and English Bilingual Accounting Manager

Job Description

Oversee the activities of the Accounting Department, including the design of processes and controls: treasury, accounts payable, accounts receivable

• Supervise and/or prepare general ledger reconciliations
• Manage and review timely month-end and year-end closes
• Manage and maintain the financial systems.
• Budgeting, forecasting and financial planning duties including monthly reforecast based on actual results
• Produce accurate, timely, and complete monthly financial statements
• Coordinate with outside CPA firm to comply with state, local and federal
• government reporting requirements

Position: Accounting Manager

Industry: Cosmetic Industry

Location: lower Manhattan,

Languages: Japanese and English a MUST

Pay: $60k - $80k (Depending on your experience)

Status: Full time

Duties

• Establishes financial status by developing and implementing systems for collecting, analyzing, verifying, and reporting financial information, and managing accounting staff.
• Achieves accounting operational objectives by contributing accounting information and recommendations to strategic plans reviews
• Prepare and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity,
• quality
• Meets accounting financial objectives by forecasting requirements
• Prepare an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

Qualifications

• 3 years of accounting experience preferably in a manufacturing/services environment
• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance
• Strong proficiency with MS Office suite and experience with SAP or similar ERP preferred.
• Someone who has done cost accounting in manufacturing industry is ideal.
• High level of written and oral communication skills, task driven individual who is accurate and diligent, and team oriented.