PURPOSE/SUMMARY ：

Evident Scientific is a global industrial manufacturing and life science company renowned for its advanced micro imaging solutions and digital pathology auto-scanning systems. Evident Corporation is headquartered in Tokyo and Boston, with footprints in APAC, EMEA, North America and China, with global headcount of approximately 2,500 employees.

Evident Corporation (EJP) is the main selling and R&D entity of the group that transacts extensively with all Evident entities world-wide, and with domestic customers in Japan. Its operations generate approximately Jpy 500 oku in intercompany and domestic sales. There are 1,000+ people in our Japan operations, which has our Corporate office in Shinjuku and research and development center in Hachioji.

The candidate would manage the EJP entity accounting and group consolidation process, and all financial reporting function of Evident Group, including managing the annual audit process, provisioning of transitional services upon a sales of a business/division, collaborating closely with the regional accounting teams world-wide, and consolidating the group’s financial results and financial positions to provide consolidated reporting to our lenders in a timely manner, in compliance with all relevant covenants. He also manages the BPO’s deliveries (AP. AR & GL) from Dalian to support the Japan operations, and cooperate with the finance/accounting teams of every region.

He/she would have a small (<10 staff) accounting team reporting directly to him/her. He/she is responsible for the preparation and the presentation of
(1) Group consolidated financial reporting in IFRS for reporting to our lenders
(2) timely management reporting to senior management executives
(3) preparing JGAAP statutory accounts for local audit and statutory compliance, including corporate tax, transfer pricing, international payments, inter-company loans and interest charging
(4) compliance reporting to senior lenders in Japan
(5) liaison and reporting to the private equity shareholders.

He/she needs to ensure proper governance, maintenance of sound internal controls and quality over the accounting close process, acts as global accounting technical resource and be able to present a Consolidated Balance Sheet and P&L review at EJP level.

He/she would also lead and drive any project on accounting standards/policies changes, accounting related to M&A activities, provision of transition services and IT projects, eg implementation of ERPs and working with IT on automation projects. Experience in implementing IT projects and working knowledge in AI would be a bonus.

This role plans and manages the accounting and finance processes to ensure the integrity of the performance and statutory reporting, plus business partnering with senior executives of group management, including Tax, Treasury, Customer Care, Global Supply Chain and Controlling department. This senior manager level role is responsible to develop and improve operational finance processes in SAP environment, and represent EMEA to work with global accounting teams to develop and deploy global systems for global standardized reporting, and provides data analysis and dashboard reporting.

This role promotes teamwork and coaches its direct reports and colleagues in order create a proactive team who delivers. He/She leverages his team members’ expertise and strength to develop the individuals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES：

・Manage the EJP accounting teams and corporate consolidation team based in Singapore & Japan, monthly/closing and group consolidation, and reporting to senior lenders within stipulated timeline.
・Manage the deliveries from BPO teams to support the Japan business, including executing business process transformation. The BPO teams are located in Dalian. He/She will collaborate with the Global Process AR, AP and R2R Owners to manage the BPO teams.
・Solid knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting, act as technical resource for the accounting teams, and be able to liaise with external auditors and manage the annual global audit process.
・Responsible for overseeing staff reporting to him/her to streamline and execute robust, efficient, and accurate processes that reflect the highly matrixed and complex multinational structures of Evident.
・Provide stakeholders analysis and reports.
・Know and ensure that IFRS standards and internal policies are appropriately applied.
・Ability to draft and implement accounting policy or accounting memorandum in English.
・Support the treasury activities during the integration and day to day operations, manage any new bank relationship (communication to be issued, credit cards, signatories).
・Ensure and establish effective accounting controls, processes, and tools to support efficient accounting activities
・Strengthen and administer effective infrastructure to diagnose issues and manage progress against objectives.
・Provide concise and actionable feedback to all levels of management regarding performance on initiatives.
・Participates cross-functional meetings for business issue resolution.
・Improve and oversee accounting processes, financial systems design and implementation, and business process efficiency tools.
・Analyze and explain results and variances; identify and communicate main drivers of fluctuations between comparative periods. Find source of issues and recommend corrective actions.
・Work knowledge on SAP ERP, including its implementation or migration, and working experience on consolidation software such as HFM and OneStream, is a big plus.
・Harmonization of business processes in place across all Evident entities
・Work closely with the Financial Planning & Analysis team regarding budgeting/forecasting to ensure efficient execution and submissions to the head office in Japan.
・Support potential M&A activities from accounting standpoint
・Collaborate to internal and external audit processes.
・Serve as lead and mentor to its direct reports and colleagues.

SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES

・Supervision of professional accounting employees.
Head of Accounting for Japan, a small team of accounting staff based mostly in Tokyo, and 2-3 staff in Singapore would report directly to this position, plus he/she has to manage the delivery from BPO teams in Dalian, China.

*Scope of changes: Duties as defined by the company