Accounting Supervisor - Zobility

Position Summary:

• Supervises, coordinates, and participates in activities of the responsible fields and team members assigned by the Manager, Accounting engaged, obtaining, calculating, posting, and recording financial data for use in maintaining accounting and statistical records by performing the following duties.

• Compiles various financial reports from individual reports of subordinates required by management or government agencies.
• Communicate, report, and respond to the headquarter of the company in Japan for the projects and the company's financial information designated by the Manager.
• Oversee daily transactions, including accounts payable/receivable, general ledger, bank reconciliations, and intercompany balance confirmation.
• Manage overdue accounts receivable and payable balances, analyze any disputes and discrepancies of the balances, and take appropriate actions for the disputes and discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Supervises and participates in preparing and auditing materials requiring analyses of supporting documents and ensures that all entries are entered into the system properly.
• Identifies and resolves problems and inconsistencies, determining appropriate corrective procedures.
• Recommends enhancements, communicates, and coordinates accounting policies, practices, and procedures with department and company managers and officials, vendors, reporting agencies, clients, customers, and the public ensuring compliance with organizational and governmental policies as well as effective and efficient operations.
• Establish work procedures, prepares work schedules, and expedites workflow. Issues written and oral instructions.
• Provide a guidance to accounting staff members and review their work assigned to ensure a high level of accuracies, exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Studies and standardizes procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
• Reviews source data, subledgers, general ledger accounts, balance sheet, and income statement schedules, the other reports, and/or prepare required journal entries.
• Recommends enhancements to general accounting activities to ensure compliance with organizational and governmental policies and procedures and to ensure the most effective and efficient operations.
• Implements process and automation improvements to reduce reconciliation efforts. Develop, recommend and implement procedures to improve efficiency of current financial and costing systems and data gathering for reporting.
• Operates within budgetary guidelines and assists in budget development for the company.
• Communicates and interacts with external auditors and responds to their inquiries and requests for additional information in a timely manner.
• Performs a wide variety of accounting functions including preparation, review, and approval of journal entries, month-end closing processes and reports, year-end schedules and reports, quarterly/annual tax reports, and account reconciliation.
• Responsible for month-end closing duties and financial reporting of the assigned field.
• Responsible for management of capital assets and account reconciliations for the assigned field.
• Performs analysis on cash flow forecast and assists Manager, Accounting with operational cash management activities.
• Meets accounting operational standards by contributing financial information to strategic plans and reviews; implements production, productivity, quality and customer service standards; resolves problems; and identifies system improvements.
• Assists Manager, Accounting with transfer pricing studies information compilation; accounting improvements implementation for subsidiaries and physical inventory management and audit in all locations including company subsidiary.
• Ensure and enforce controls in compliance to J-SOX key controls, workflows, and standards for the assigned fields

• Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) from four-year college or university; and a minimum of five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Fluent in Japanese is big plus
• Good experience in financial accounting (five years or more)
• Good experience in managerial accounting (Cost accounting) (five years or more)
• Work experience in the Automotive industry preferable (three years or more)
• Work experience in Factory accounting (Inventory accounting) is plus
• Possesses leadership capabilities, solid operational and technical accounting background, and works proactively to drive results.
• This person is a self-starter, flexible, has a high level of integrity, and is action and goal-oriented in a fast-paced, team-oriented, collaborative environment

We offer attractive, competitive compensation and benefits including, medical, dental, 401k, short-term disability, AD&D, tuition reimbursement, and more. If you take pride in your work and are committed to personal and professional success, let's talk. Please visit www.zobility.com to learn more.

Zobility is RGBSI's workforce management and staffing division. RGBSI is a multi-national corporation headquartered in Troy, MI with branches throughout the USA, Canada, Germany, and India.