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Netflix Content Accountant - Japan, Tokyo 699184705
15.05.2024
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QUALITIES WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Fundamentals of Accounting - You have a minimum of 4 years of experience in a financial accounting or public accounting role, backed by a Bachelor / Academic degree in accounting, business or economics. While not required, it's preferred that you have a CPA or an equivalent certification.
- We find that individuals who quickly obtained Senior level at a company or public accounting firm are more likely to be suited to this unique challenge. If you’re a Senior or a rising star Senior, we’d love to talk to you!
- Industry experience is not essential to the position if you are enthusiastic about the position, have a strong accounting background (such as experience with J GAAP, US GAAP or IFRS) and are capable of learning quickly.
- You have effective communication skills demonstrated through working with stakeholders. Attention to detail + love for data - We pride ourselves on producing high quality work, scrutinizing important numbers and formulas for accuracy, and using spreadsheets and system data to reconcile accounts and solve problems; we like our accountants to love Excel pivot tables and be unphased by large data sets.
- Enthusiasm and quick learning - Enthusiasm for making improvements to existing systems and workflows. Prior work with contract review (revenue, leases, or other complex documents), data entry and analysis, research, and other problem-solving tasks is helpful, but we understand you probably have never done content accounting. That's OK with us because we'll teach you as long as you're excited about learning.
- Curiosity and passion - Our team members ask probing questions, challenge the status quo, make changes to improve processes, and have fun while doing it all; positive attitude and never settling for “good enough” are key, along with fitting into our unique company culture.
- Adaptable - You have to be comfortable in an ever-changing eco-system of content, finance and accounting issues and projects.
- Flexible to collaborate with our U.S. and other offices across multiple time zones. Willingness to travel to our offices within APAC and overseas .
- You embrace and advocate the Netflix and our .
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Based in our Tokyo office, reporting to the Japan Finance Manager and closely working with the Content Accounting teams based in LA (as well as those in EMEA and APAC).
- Part of the team responsible for the financial integrity of the company's content commitments, assets (capitalization), liabilities (payments), and expenses (amortization).
- Set up (in proprietary contract management system) and accounting of content license contracts, with focus on license fee uploads and payment term assignments.
- Review and documentation of content license agreements, which includes interpreting contractual terms and understanding the application of our accounting policies.
- Accounting for owned content produced for Japan.
- Maintain cross-functional relationships, including the content finance/international finance, tax, legal and acquisition organizations.
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