# Senior Accountant

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/866478f0-981c-45c6-a628-d2bac8a9cb12
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d9609589-736

## Description

The APAC Accounting Hub in Singapore plays a critical role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong compliance, and smooth coordination across markets. We're looking for a highly self-motivated Senior Accountant to serve as the day-to-day Japan finance point of contact while supporting broader APAC reporting.

This role is ideal for someone who is hands-on, structured, and comfortable operating in a lean, fast-paced environment with cross-border complexity. You'll help embed Japanese language capability within the APAC team and partner with regional and global stakeholders across Finance and other functions as needed.

### Responsibilities

- Serve as the Japan finance point of contact within the APAC Accounting Hub, coordinating and escalating finance-related matters as needed

- Own Japan reporting, statutory filings, accounting controls and compliance timelines

- Partner with global Tax, Treasury, Legal, and APAC Accounting teams on Japan-related operational and compliance matters

- Coordinate with Japan Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider on local execution processes, including WHT documentation, Japan tax office communications, Japan Citibank-related paper documentation, and physical submissions

- Review and validate Japan statutory financial information and ensure alignment between IFRS and local GAAP reporting where required

- Interpret feedback or notices from Japan tax authorities and external service providers, assess impact, and coordinate follow-up actions internally

- Prepare and support consolidated APAC reporting during close cycles, statutory filings and related audit requirements for designated APAC entities as needed

- Perform variance analysis and follow up on key issues identified across Japan and APAC reporting

- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual dependencies, and improve coordination efficiency

- Participate in regional and global calls as required (night calls expected at not more than 5% of work time depending on close cycles and projects)

- Contribute to special projects, system enhancements, and ad hoc analyses as assigned

### Requirements

- Minimum 5+ years related accounting operations experience within a multinational company, ideally in a technology or fast-paced environment

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

- CPA, CA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred

- Strong understanding of IFRS and exposure to local statutory reporting

- Experience coordinating with external service providers such as audit firms, tax agents, BPO providers

- Business-level Japanese (spoken and written) and strong professional English communication skills are required

- Technically proficient with ERP systems and MS Office including advanced Excel skills

- Strong analytical and communication skills across all levels

- Comfortable managing cross-functional and external stakeholder coordination and navigating cross-cultural communication

- Thrive in lean teams, take ownership of your work, and remain adaptable in evolving environments

### Work Arrangement

- This role is based in Singapore and follows our hybrid work model, with an expectation of 2–3 days per week in the office

## Skills

### Required
- IFRS
- local statutory reporting
- ERP systems
- MS Office
- advanced Excel skills
- Japanese language
- English communication skills