AR Finance Manager

Leading Amazon JP AR/AP daily operation tasks as well as onsite JP people development. Performs autonomously, initiates and manages complex, departmental and/or cross- company work. Drives execution of vision and goals for the team.
Is expected to set and improve procedures, maintaining full compliance and implement best practices.
Plays significant role in career development of the team.

• Management responsibilities
• Uses expertise and judgment to select stakeholders to determine the right goals, inform decisions. Designs long-term solutions. Takes the lead on local initiatives. Delivers independently but will seek direction.
• Performs autonomously, initiates and manages complex, departmental and/or cross- company work. Managing process workload and establishing priorities.
• Influences stakeholders/partners. Some roles work across an organization and/or a country to meet a narrower goal. Works on a program. May work on more than one program. Mentors and develops others.
• Work is tactical and strategic. Leads the end-to-end delivery of simplified solutions for the best outcome and represents the benefits and challenges with each approach. Drives the use of best practices. Learning to force multiply. Handles complex problems and/or efforts, decisions, and escalations. Mitigates long-term risks. Clears blockers with the right resources, escalating when appropriate. Makes trade-offs: short vs. long-term needs.
• Independently manages and drives recruiting efforts. Continually raises the bar.
• Plays significant role in career development of the team.
• Drives execution of vision and goals for the team.

Key job responsibilities
• Setting up process priorities and aligning with overall organization goals.
• Driving organization’s strategy, plays a leader’s role in improving process efficiencies and effectiveness, spearheads development and implementation of tools and other automation.
• Exploring upstream/downstream improvement opportunities by working with business partners, identifying root causes and builds long term solutions.
• Act as a process SME and drive engagement across multiple stakeholder groups to drive required process improvements
• Building long-term relationship to improve OTC lifecycle. Stakeholders and customer management.
• Building and maintaining operations and projects performance metrics and continually raising the bar.
• Evaluating and communicating accounts receivable controllership risks with the Finance Operations, assessing the adequacy of existing controls and partnering with controllership team to implement new controls as needed.
• Operationalizing policies, documentation and implementation, and procedural compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This includes developing, modifying and maintaining the operational and design effectiveness of internal controls partnering with Internal Audit.
• Ability to lead and contribute in other process areas like collections, cash application, credit notes and deduction management, collections and vendor/customer contact management.
• Hands on experience of managing and leading a team of 4-5 members including operational managers across receivables processes.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects
• Ability to dive deep and design/redesign processes for existing as well as new business lines / geos expansion
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment - candidate has to be strong in dealing with ambiguity- Bachelor degree in accounting or finance or related analytical background. MBA,CPA,ACCA preferred.
- Ability to read, write and speak English & Japanese fluently.
- Microsoft office skill needed, advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience
- 10+ years of Accounting/Finance/Operations experience, or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ people manager experience, ability to applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- ERP experience- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 6+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- MBA,CPA,CMA, ACCA preferred.
- Analytic skills and can use assistant tools support operation.
- Greenbelt, 6 sigma, and Kaizen knowledge preferred.
- Project management experience preferred.

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