Richemont, one of the world leaders in the luxury sector, has various Houses specializing in jewelry, watches and high-end accessories. Each Maison proudly embodies a tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont strives to preserve the heritage and identity specific to each of them. At the same time, we are committed to innovating and designing new products in line with the values ​​of our Houses, through a process of permanent creativity.

MAIN PURPOSE

This position’s main role is to handle accounting for fixed assets, A&P expenses, lead the team, and oversee and manage overall expenses in collaboration with the PTP Lead Accounting Manager. Strongly expected to handle and manage the accounting process for responsible areas and keep the compliance with accounting standards (both JGAAP and IFRS) and attention to detail necessary to ensure accurate reporting to all areas.  This role is required to work closely with internal partners, including FP&A, HR, IT and Maison communication teams.

Expected to be the professional who is not only an accountant but also a team player who cooperates with colleagues and support our business activities with strong communication skill.  The position also will be responsible for some key initiatives and projects related to digitalization, paperless, simplification and productivity.

Our Group activities in Japan include 17 Brands which manage around 200 boutiques with over 2,000 employees.  This role, as the Richemont Accounting manager, is part of the overall Richemont finance community and he/she is expected to be a real business partner with professional compliant mindset and problem-solving attitude.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Key responsibility 1: Team management

• Lead the team to ensure that the accounting for A&P(advertising and promotion) and selling expenses within their area of responsibility is completed accurately and timely manner.
• Review periodic Balance Sheet and perform analytical procedures
• Ensure the compliance with accounting standards for the responsible areas and manage related risks
• Support the Lead Manager in managing of the PTP team

• Key responsibility 2: Fixed assets, A&P and other costs

• Processing invoices
• Aggregation of expenses
• Recording journal entries during monthly and annual closing
• Support for optimizing communication costs
• Aggregation of entertainment expenses and preparation of the entertainment expense report for the annual closing
• Review periodic Balance Sheet and perform analytical procedures
• Ensure the compliance with accounting standards for the responsible areas and manage related risks
• Propose and implement processes in accordance with new accounting guideline/group policy

• Key responsibility 3: Projects / Improvements

• Implementation of paperless and digitalization
• Process automation, simplification & productivity
• System integration and upgrade
• New business / process developments/scheme implementation
• Identify and initiate continuous improvement opportunities

PROFILES:

Experience:       

• 10 years+ Accounting and/or controlling experience is expected
• Team management experience is expected

Skills:  

• Attention to details, proactive and solution oriented, timely and qualitative
• Team-player, good relationship builder
• Strong accounting skills and knowledge
• Excel and Financial system skills with full flexibility for new environment
• Strong in communication in verbal and writing for both English and Japanese
• US CPA is a plus
• Japanese book keeping 2nd grade or above is a plus
• SAP experience preferred

Behavioral competency:

• Strong time management & schedule handling
• High level of integrity
• Structured, result-oriented and decision maker
• With teamwork thinking and behavior, positive mood-maker to motivate members
• Able to handle multiple tasks and stay organized
• Strong communication skills to pursue everything with passion and perfectionism
• Can manage politics and human/organizational relations under the matrix functions/lines
• Able to work under uncertainty

#Richemont #WeCraftTheFuture