Task Purpose

CIB Finance Japan is committed to be a valued Business Partner to the Métiers and other Functions in their daily business activities and development plans by providing them with timely and high quality financial information to make informed business decisions to effectively achieve their strategic goals.

In CIB Finance, Financial Reporting team is in charge of:

The Finance function achieves its mission by:

• Manage the accounting closing of Securities company and Bank branch in collaboration with the offshore Finance team
• Oversight Head Office Reporting under IFRS performed by offshore service center
• Local regulatory reporting under broker dealer and banking license
• Local statutory reporting under JGAAP
• Tax computation and support for tax filing
• Financial analysis, monitoring of revenue and costs including internal reporting for the entity
• Define accounting treatment for new products
• Maintaining sound permanent operational control systems.

Key Responsibilities

 Direct Responsibilities

For Bank Tokyo branch,

• Close the monthly ledger while ensuring proper controls, conducting essential reconciliation and maintaining the accuracy of the general ledger
• Prepare local regulatory reports in accordance with JGAAP and Banking Act etc
• Perform various controls built within the accounting and reporting processes, and contribute to the application of BNPP accounting control plan
• Ensure proper documentation of procedures and controls are in place
• Provide financial analysis and presentation to the CFO and stakeholders including revenue and cost monitoring/analysis/internal reporting by business lines and clients 
• Participate in projects linked to financial reporting including reporting systems and tool
• Assess potential enhancements and operational process improvements in production, control procedures, and workflow organization to increase the work’s efficiency and effectiveness

Contributing Responsibilities

Competencies (Technical / Behavioual)

Essential Qualification and Experience 

• Extensive accounting knowledge of IFRS and JGAAP, and tax accounting rules 
• Understanding of banking products
• Native in Japanese and good verbal and written communication skills in English 
• Excellent computer skills, especially in advance Excel to manage large volume of data 
• Minimum 5 years of experience in financial accounting and reporting in banking business or financial institution

Highly Desirable Skills 

• Analytical skills with systematic approach to solve issues and interpret financial information

• Sufficient understanding of financial and operational risk control requirements to ensure that financial systems in place are compliant and continuously monitored
• Team-oriented mindset and communication skills. Efficiently be able to work within a team and interact with various stakeholders including reporting to managers.

Specific Qualifications Required

• CPA or equivalent qualification - preferred