Financial Reporting Specialist

Job Description

AVP – Corporate accounting | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, a leading global financial group. MUFG strives to make a difference for every client, organization, and community by building long-term relationships and fostering sustainable growth. This role is crucial for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the bank’s financial statements, contributing directly to MUFG’s vision of being the world’s most trusted financial group.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time

• Team: Financial reporting team
• Mission: Ensure accurate, complete, and timely management and reporting of the Bank’s balance sheet and Profit and Loss accounts.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office (Excel/VBA, Word, Access), Oracle, accounting software packages

What You’ll Actually Do
• Technology Account Management: Prepare Technology suspense accounts, liaising with account owners for transaction validity, ensuring timely asset capitalization, monitoring cost against budget, accruing, calculating withholding tax and markups, invoicing, and following up on cash remittance for Americas projects.
• Daily Financial Operations: Produce daily reconciliation reports between Front and Back Office systems and generate daily Profit and Loss reports.
• Issue Resolution & Analysis: Investigate reconciliation differences with respective bank areas, advising on root causes and recommending corrective actions to maintain financial accuracy.
• Fixed & Leased Asset Administration: Maintain the Bank’s fixed assets and leased assets register, including reviewing system development applications, advising on investment versus expense treatment, monitoring fixed assets coding in Oracle, and preparing all related Head Office reports.
• General Ledger & Reporting: Prepare Bank’s pension accounting journals and reporting, conduct monthly balance sheet controls for nostro accounts, process monthly closing journals, ledger adjustments, analysis, and reconciliations, and analyze business reports to ensure General Ledger accuracy, including accruals.
• Regulatory & Financial Statement Preparation: Prepare Financial Accounting Reports to meet stakeholder deadlines, contribute to half-yearly Variable Interest Entity reporting, and support the preparation and review of complete, accurate, and timely quarterly and semi-annual US GAAP reporting while responding to regulator queries.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelors / Masters degree and relevant accounting qualifications; experience in financial closing and reporting teams or a Big 4 accounting firm practice, preferably with a controls and governance focus.
• Experience: Practical experience with financial closing and reporting processes, including exposure to governance frameworks.
• Skills: Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel/VBA, Word, and Access; good exposure to accounting software packages; excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong problem-solving ability and attention to detail.
• Bonus: CA preferred.