Japanese Bilingual Accounting Assistant

Location: Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid Remote considered; office commute 2 days a week)

Hours: Monday to Friday; 9:00am to 6:00pm

Compensation: $18.00 – $22.00/HR (DoE) + benefits

Job duties include:

• Maintains the invoices and statements from all the vendors; files and organizes the documents.

• Reviews and verifies all the invoices and statements; contacts the related sections, vendors, and hotels immediately to resolve the discrepancy when questionable charges appear on the statements.

• Processes payments for the vendors, other branches, credit cards, wholesale costs in a timely manner.

• Directs all deposits and payments, issues the checks for payments/refunds.

• Processes expenses for business trips and employee discounts.

• Research for unpaid invoices.

• Performs the journal entries of costs and expenses into the system.

• Monitors and closes the petty cash on a monthly basis.

• Posts daily cash receipts and deposits from various sales commissions into appropriate ledgers.

• Posts a receipt of payment on each customer’s account; keeps track of collection status for each customer and follows-up on any delinquent accounts.

• Makes deposits and performs the data entry into the system; enters the sales and deports data into GP, etc.

• Issues invoices and receipts as necessary; invoices vendors, invoices HQ overseas for the Hotel Reservations department and Tour Operation department, manages invoices for group companies.

• Manages commissions for employees.

• Generates accounts receivable report and daily cash sales report.

• Prepare for bank deposits and record the transactions.

• Creates reports for unpaid deposits, discrepancies, losses, and balances for accounts receivable.

• Processes various expenses such as general payments, Master Card, etc.

• Creates and maintains financial documents.

• Manages funds and resources.

• Maintains and processes tasks on line (Authorize Net, AMEX, Banks, etc.)

• Operates accounting related software (HOPS, Challenge, Apollo, GlobalWare, IAR, ARC, GP, etc.)