Record to Report CLA Senior Analyst (Japanese Speaker)
Posted on: December 23, 2025 | JOB ID: 202510-128056
Company Name: Roche.com
Language Duration: English & Japanese (N3 Proficiency Mandatory)
Reports to: R2R CLA Team Lead / Manager
Division: Finance & Accounting | Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia (On-Site)
Schedule: Standard Business Hours | Experience Level: 03 Years
About Roche: Building a Healthier Future
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A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advancing science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Join Roche, where every voice matters. Let's build a healthier future, together.
About the Record to Report (R2R) Organization
The Record to Report (R2R) function is a critical component of Roche's global finance operations, delivering world-class financial services and solutions across the organization. Our shared services model brings together experienced finance professionals who provide comprehensive accounting services including financial management, period-end closing, capital and lease accounting, credit and receivables management, manufacturing finance, and divisional reporting.
Within R2R, the Capital & Lease Accounting (CLA) team specializes in managing fixed assets, capital projects, and lease accounting across multiple entities and geographies. We ensure compliance with international accounting standards (IFRS, GAAP) while providing assurance of financial integrity and supporting strategic business decisions through accurate financial information.
Our team in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, serves as a vital hub in Roche's global shared services network, supporting Japanese affiliates and other entities across the Asia-Pacific region. This dynamic, multicultural environment offers exceptional opportunities for professional growth and cross-cultural collaboration.
The Position: Record to Report CLA Senior Analyst (Japanese Speaker)
We are seeking a detail-oriented and bilingual Record to Report CLA Senior Analyst with Japanese language proficiency to join our Capital & Lease Accounting team in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. This critical role focuses on providing comprehensive fixed asset accounting, lease accounting, and capital project accounting services primarily for Japanese Roche affiliates, requiring both technical accounting expertise and fluent Japanese communication skills.
As an R2R CLA Senior Analyst, you will be responsible for the complete lifecycle of fixed asset and lease accounting operations, from asset creation and maintenance to disposal and reporting. Your bilingual capabilities in English and Japanese (minimum N3 proficiency) are essential for daily operations, enabling seamless communication with Japanese-speaking stakeholders, reviewing Japanese-language documentation, and providing exceptional service to our Japanese affiliate clients.
This position offers the unique opportunity to work in a global shared services environment while leveraging your Japanese language skills and developing deep technical expertise in fixed asset accounting, lease accounting under IFRS 16, and capital project accounting. You'll collaborate with Country Chief Accountants, finance teams across Asia-Pacific, and stakeholders globally, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and transformation projects that enhance service delivery and operational efficiency.
Your role bridges technical accounting excellence with customer service orientation, requiring attention to detail, analytical thinking, and strong communication skills in both English and Japanese. You'll work with modern ERP systems (SAP preferred), support internal and external audits, and contribute to process improvements that drive efficiency and accuracy across the R2R function.
Core Responsibilities
Fixed Assets & Lease Accounting Operations
You will be responsible for comprehensive fixed assets and lease accounting operations covering the complete asset lifecycle. This includes creating new fixed asset master records with accurate data, processing asset disposals including calculation of gains/losses, performing maintenance activities such as cost center changes and location transfers, executing asset transfers between entities or locations, running monthly depreciation calculations, and generating fixed asset and lease accounting reports for stakeholders.
Your lease accounting responsibilities under IFRS 16 include identifying and evaluating lease contracts for proper accounting treatment, calculating right-of-use assets and lease liabilities, recording lease transactions and remeasurements, maintaining comprehensive lease schedules and documentation, reconciling lease balances to supporting contracts, and ensuring full compliance with IFRS 16 disclosure requirements.
Daily operational activities involve processing incoming fixed asset and lease transactions, reviewing and validating transaction data for accuracy, coordinating with requestors to clarify unclear items, maintaining organized documentation supporting all transactions, monitoring work queues to ensure timely processing, and escalating complex issues to senior team members or management.
Period-End Closing Activities
You will coordinate and execute fixed assets and lease month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities to ensure timely and accurate closure of accounts in compliance with work instructions, IFRS 16 standards, and month-end Financial Closing Checklist requirements. Your closing responsibilities include posting depreciation and lease expense entries, recording new asset acquisitions and disposals, processing period-end adjustments and accruals, reconciling fixed asset and lease subledgers to general ledger, preparing consolidation reporting packages, and analyzing variances and investigating anomalies.
Meeting strict closing deadlines requires careful planning and prioritization. You'll follow standardized closing calendars and checklists, coordinate with upstream and downstream teams, communicate status updates regularly, identify and escalate potential delays early, and work efficiently during peak closing periods.
Your analytical skills ensure closing accuracy through reviewing depreciation calculations for reasonableness, validating new asset additions against supporting documentation, verifying disposal accounting including gain/loss calculations, analyzing balance sheet movements and investigating unusual trends, and identifying and correcting errors before finalization.
Capital Project Accounting
You will perform capital project accounting for large-scale and large-cost investments, managing the complete project lifecycle from initiation to capitalization. This includes setting up new capital project master data in the system, recording project transactions and expenses, monitoring and tracking spending against budgets, reviewing project costs for proper capitalization criteria, closing projects when construction is complete, capitalizing projects by transferring costs to fixed assets, and measuring financial returns on completed projects.
Your capital project responsibilities require close collaboration with project managers, procurement teams, and business stakeholders to understand project scope and timelines, obtain necessary approvals and documentation, clarify cost allocation and capitalization questions, track project milestones and readiness dates, and ensure timely project closeout and asset activation.
Analyzing capital projects involves reviewing project budgets versus actual spending, identifying cost overruns or savings opportunities, ensuring only qualifying costs are capitalized, validating asset useful lives and depreciation methods, and providing reporting and analysis supporting capital investment decisions.
Accounting Analysis and Journal Preparation
You will analyze fixed assets and lease entries to ensure accounting transactions are performed accurately, completely, and in compliance with accounting standards and company policies. This analytical work includes reviewing transaction coding and account assignments, validating amounts and calculations, checking for duplicates or missing entries, ensuring proper documentation supports all transactions, and verifying compliance with capitalization thresholds and policies.
Preparation of accounting journals requires technical precision. You'll prepare manual journal entries for adjustments and corrections, ensure journals include clear descriptions and supporting documentation, obtain necessary approvals before posting, post journals timely according to closing schedules, and maintain organized documentation of all journal entry activity.
Your attention to detail prevents errors through double-checking calculations and amounts, validating account codes and cost centers, ensuring debits equal credits, reviewing journal impact on financial statements, and implementing quality control checks before finalizing.
Balance Sheet Reconciliation and Financial Reporting
You will prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for fixed asset and lease accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial statement balances. Your reconciliation responsibilities include matching subledger balances to general ledger, identifying and explaining reconciling items, investigating and rectifying anomalies encountered, clearing open items and aged balances, documenting reconciliation results with supporting evidence, and obtaining review and approval from senior team members.
Supporting Period End Close team on FINCO (Financial Consolidation) reporting ensures packages are accurately reported on time. This includes completing standardized reporting templates, providing fixed asset and lease rollforward schedules, ensuring elimination entries are properly documented, submitting reports by established deadlines, and responding promptly to questions from consolidation teams.
Your financial reporting contributions include preparing fixed asset and capital project reports, analyzing trends and key metrics, providing commentary on significant movements, creating ad-hoc reports for management requests, and ensuring report accuracy through thorough review.
Audit and Tax Support
Supporting internal and external audit matters requires ensuring timely submission of required audit schedules and providing financial supporting documents and information to auditors. Your audit support includes preparing audit schedules showing account activity and balances, gathering supporting documentation for sampled transactions, responding to auditor questions and requests, facilitating auditor testing by providing system access or data, addressing audit findings and implementing remediation, and participating in audit meetings and walkthroughs.
Supporting tax matters involves preparing tax schedules as requested by tax consultants, providing financial supporting documents for tax filings, extracting data needed for tax calculations, coordinating with tax teams on information requests, and ensuring tax-related deadlines are met.
Your audit and tax support demonstrates professionalism through timely responsiveness to requests, thorough documentation supporting positions, clear communication explaining complex items, proactive identification of potential issues, and continuous improvement based on feedback.
Documentation, Controls, and Compliance
You will ensure all work documentation and work processes are updated and meet Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) requirements, group policies and guidelines, local statutory and legal requirements, and agreed service timelines. This includes maintaining current process documentation and work instructions, following established control procedures and checklists, documenting control activities and evidence, complying with segregation of duties requirements, and reporting control deficiencies or incidents.
Participating in compliance audits requires preparing for audit testing, providing evidence of control execution, responding to audit queries professionally, implementing audit recommendations, and continuously strengthening control environment.
Your commitment to compliance ensures adherence to accounting standards and policies, following approval workflows and authorization limits, maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information, complying with data privacy and security requirements, and escalating compliance concerns appropriately.
Backup Function and Cross-Training
You will perform backup function and other duties, including job rotation to other functional teams as and when required. This flexibility includes covering for absent colleagues, taking on assignments in adjacent teams, learning processes outside primary responsibilities, supporting surge capacity during peak periods, and maintaining versatility across R2R functions.
Job rotation opportunities support professional development through gaining broader R2R experience, building relationships across teams, developing new technical skills, understanding end-to-end processes, and enhancing career progression possibilities.
Transformation and Continuous Improvement
You will work collaboratively with Country Chief Accountants and stakeholders to engage and support teams in implementation of continuous improvement projects. Your continuous improvement contributions include proactively identifying improvement opportunities in areas of operation, recommending and implementing solutions in consultation with management, participating in transformation initiatives and working groups, sharing best practices within the team, and measuring and tracking improvement results.
Assisting to ensure effective knowledge transfer supports sustainable development through documenting processes and procedures, conducting training for new team members, sharing technical knowledge and expertise, creating knowledge repositories and FAQs, and fostering culture of learning and development.
Your innovation mindset drives exploring automation and digitalization opportunities, challenging existing processes with fresh perspective, piloting new approaches and technologies, learning from failures and iterating, and celebrating and recognizing improvement successes.
Service Level Agreement (SLA) and KPI Management
You will ensure service level agreements (SLA) and monthly performance and productivity KPIs are met consistently. This requires understanding SLA commitments to customers, monitoring performance against targets, identifying risks to SLA achievement, implementing corrective actions when falling short, and reporting SLA performance to management.
Key performance indicators you'll track include transaction processing volume and accuracy, closing deadline achievement, reconciliation completion rates, audit and tax deliverable timeliness, customer satisfaction scores, and continuous improvement initiative progress.
Japanese Language Communication
Your Japanese language proficiency (minimum N3 level - mandatory) is essential for day-to-day operational tasks including communicating with Japanese affiliate finance teams, reading and understanding Japanese-language documents and contracts, translating information between English and Japanese, providing customer service in Japanese, participating in Japanese-language conference calls, and writing emails and reports in Japanese.
Building strong relationships with Japanese stakeholders requires cultural awareness and sensitivity, understanding Japanese business communication norms, demonstrating responsiveness and service orientation, adapting communication style appropriately, and building trust through consistent, professional service delivery.
Who You Are: Required Qualifications
Educational Background
A Degree or Diploma in Finance & Accounting, Commerce, or equivalent provides the foundational knowledge required for this role. Relevant qualifications include Bachelor's or Diploma in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration with accounting concentration, Commerce, or equivalent credentials. Progress toward professional accounting certifications (ACCA, CIMA, CPA) strengthens your candidacy.
Professional Experience
Minimum 1-3 years of working experience in fixed asset and lease accounting or related field demonstrates your practical expertise. Your experience should include exposure to fixed asset lifecycle accounting, lease accounting operations, period-end closing processes, balance sheet reconciliations, and audit support activities.
External experience in shared service or business process outsourcing (BPO) engagement is preferable, demonstrating your understanding of shared services model, SLA-driven operations, multi-entity accounting support, process standardization, and high-volume transaction processing.
Technical Competencies
SAP knowledge or other ERP accounting systems is required for effective system operation. You should demonstrate ability to navigate and transact in SAP or similar ERP platforms, understanding of fixed asset and lease modules, proficiency in running reports and extracting data, troubleshooting basic system issues, and learning new system functionality quickly.
MS Office tools proficiency is essential for daily work, including advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, formulas, data analysis), PowerPoint for presentations and documentation, Word for documentation and reporting, Outlook for professional email communication, and Teams or similar collaboration platforms.
Fixed asset and lease accounting technical knowledge forms your core competency, including asset capitalization criteria and policies, depreciation methods and calculations, disposal accounting and gain/loss recognition, IFRS 16 lease accounting principles, capital project accounting, and balance sheet reconciliation techniques.
Language Requirements
Proficiency in English and Japanese language are required with good communication skills. Japanese is mandatory to support day-to-day operation tasks, at minimum N3 proficiency level.
Your Japanese proficiency should enable business-level reading comprehension of contracts and documents, professional written communication via email and reports, verbal communication in meetings and phone calls, understanding of accounting and business terminology in Japanese, and ability to translate and explain between English and Japanese.
Your English proficiency should enable clear written communication, professional verbal communication, understanding of international accounting standards, ability to work with global stakeholders, and effective presentation skills.
Roche Values and Competencies
Demonstrated values of Passion, Courage, and Integrity:
- Passion: Enthusiasm for your work and commitment to excellence, dedication to Roche's mission and healthcare impact, pride in quality and accuracy of deliverables, and continuous pursuit of learning and improvement
- Courage: Willingness to speak up and share ideas, challenging status quo constructively, taking ownership and accountability, embracing change and transformation, and learning from mistakes and setbacks
- Integrity: Honesty and transparency in all dealings, adherence to ethical standards and policies, respect for confidentiality and data privacy, reliability and follow-through on commitments, and treating all stakeholders with fairness and respect
Personal leadership qualities and self-discipline including taking initiative without constant supervision, managing time and priorities effectively, maintaining focus and productivity, demonstrating reliability and consistency, and holding yourself to high standards.
Good communication skills and team spirit with willingness to support colleagues beyond defined job scope, sharing knowledge and helping others succeed, collaborating effectively across teams and geographies, giving and receiving feedback constructively, and contributing to positive team culture.
Customer service mindset and business acumen including understanding customer needs and expectations, delivering high-quality service consistently, demonstrating responsiveness and follow-through, thinking from business perspective, and balancing service quality with efficiency.
Trouble-shooting or problem-solving ability demonstrated through analytical thinking and root cause analysis, creative solution development, systematic approach to investigating issues, ability to work through ambiguity, and persistence in resolving challenges.
Roche Competencies
Ability to demonstrate and deliver to required extents of the 10 Roche Competencies:
- Strategic Agility: Understanding organizational strategy and aligning work accordingly
- Decision Making: Making sound decisions based on analysis and judgment
- Technical & Business Expertise: Developing deep functional knowledge and business understanding
- Communication: Communicating clearly and effectively across audiences
- Managing Change: Adapting positively to change and supporting transformation
- Inspiring & Influencing: Motivating others and building commitment
- Teamwork & Collaboration: Working effectively with diverse teams
- Achieving Results: Delivering outcomes and meeting commitments
- Feedback & Coaching: Giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Innovation: Generating new ideas and approaches
What Roche Offers You
Career Development Opportunities
Working in Roche's global shared services organization provides exceptional career development through exposure to international operations and diverse entities, structured training and development programs, cross-functional learning through job rotation, mentorship from experienced finance professionals, clear career progression paths, opportunities for regional or global mobility, professional certification support, and continuous skill development.
Work Environment and Culture
You'll join a multicultural, inclusive team that values diverse perspectives and backgrounds, collaborative and supportive colleagues, modern office facilities in Petaling Jaya, flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance, recognition programs celebrating achievements, team building activities and engagement events, and leadership focused on employee development and wellbeing.
Comprehensive Benefits
Roche provides competitive compensation and benefits package aligned with Malaysian market, performance-based bonuses rewarding individual and team achievements, comprehensive medical and health insurance, wellness programs supporting physical and mental health, professional development allowances, language learning support for continuous improvement, career advancement opportunities within global organization, and employee assistance programs.
Location Benefits
Petaling Jaya, Selangor offers excellent quality of life with modern city amenities and infrastructure, diverse food and cultural options, good public transportation connectivity, proximity to Kuala Lumpur city center, international community and expat-friendly environment, and affordable cost of living.
Application Process
If you're a detail-oriented accounting professional with Japanese language skills who is passionate about fixed asset accounting and eager to contribute to a global healthcare leader, we want to hear from you.
To Apply: Submit your application including:
- Updated CV/resume in English
- Details of your Japanese language proficiency level (N3, N2, N1)
- Fixed asset and/or lease accounting experience
- SAP or ERP system experience
- Examples of shared services or multi-entity support experience
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Ready to Build a Healthier Future?
Join Roche's Record to Report team in Petaling Jaya and leverage your bilingual skills while developing deep technical expertise in fixed asset and lease accounting. Your Japanese language abilities and accounting knowledge will enable you to support critical operations for our Japanese affiliates while building a rewarding career in a global healthcare leader.
Apply today and become part of a team where every voice matters and every contribution counts toward building a healthier future for all.
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