Job Description
Date: 12/4/2022
Position: Senior Accountant (temp for parental leave cover for 1 year)
Division: Finance
Hierarchy
Direct Supervisor: bitFlyer Europe S.A. Finance Manager
Tasks
Main Objective
- Accounting and reporting production
Specific Tasks
- Share of monthly accounting work:
o Revenue accounting
o Cost accounting
o Client and firm cash accounting
o Assets and liabilities accounting
o Crypto accounting
- Share of financial controls:
o reconciliations
o analytical review
- Bank account administration
- Payments and cash management
- Budget and forecast data collection
- Variance analysis preparation
- Preparation of reporting to regulators
- Annual audit work
- VAT and tax reporting
- Cooperate with Operations team to ensure controlled and effective client asset safeguarding and processing
- Regulatory reporting, including to CSSF
- Reporting to bitFlyer Group Head Office
- Reporting to Management and Boards of Directors
- Financial Planning & Analysis, including budgeting and forecasting and explanations for variances to budget
- Cooperate with bitFlyer overseas offices in all finance related matters at global scale, with the purpose of ensuring transparency and alignment in all related aspects.
- Participate in internal and global projects, to ensure good coordination of processes and work across whole bitFlyer group
Desired Skills
Education
- Qualified Accountant. e.g. ACA, ACMA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent
Experience / Knowledge
- At least 5 years of proven experience and increasing responsibility in Accounting/Finance, preferably in regulated Financial Services companies (e.g. payment institutions, banks)
- Good understanding of multicultural working environments
- Experience of general ledger and closing process
- Good knowledge of Luxembourg GAAP (IFRS and US GAAP also very useful), and accounting policies
Languages
- English proficiency required
- French/German proficiency desirable
- Japanese desirable
Communication
Internal
- Direct with CFO
- Direct with COO
- Direct with Risk and Compliance
- Direct with Operations
- Direct with coworkers of the Accounting, and General Administration division
- Direct with overseas offices
External
- Direct with auditors and advisers