Senior Financial Cost Accountant (Japanese Speaker)

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The Position

Senior Financial Cost Accountant

As a Senior Financial Cost Accountant, you will support a manufacturing site by ensuring financial compliance, executing month-end close activities, and delivering standard cost and inventory related activities. You will develop financial accounting models to improve performance measurement and ensure data quality and compliance. Additionally, you will collaborate globally on continuous improvement of processes, systems, and standards across the network.

Your opportunity:

• Supporting month-end close activities and delivering standard cost and inventory analysis
• Contributing to the development of financial accounting models for performance measurement and insights
• Ensuring data quality, process governance, and compliance across manufacturing sites
• Collaborating globally to improve and align finance processes, systems, and standards
• Participating in continuous improvement squads for process, system, and policy enhancements
• Assisting Finance Business Partners with ad hoc analysis, initiatives, and projects
• Supporting internal and external audits when relevant and ensuring process alignment with stakeholders
  
  

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related discipline is required
• 5+ years of experience in finance within a corporate setting and working with cross-functional teams
• Background in product costing, manufacturing finance, and cost accounting, preferably with experience supporting manufacturing operations is advantageous
• Proven experience with SAP ERP systems, cost analysis, and cost controlling tasks
• Strong sense of accountability, prioritization, and the ability to deliver results while managing complex financial data and tasks
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and foster productive relationships across organizations
• Fluency in English and Japanese is Required
  
  

Relocation benefits are not available for this position.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.