Billing Center Manager – Insurance

Our client, a multinational Insurance company, is hiring a Bilingual (Japanese and English) Billing Center Manager.

Job Title: Billing Center Manager (Permanent Position)
Company: Multinational Insurance Company
Location: Tokyo
Languages:
Japanese: Fluent (spoken and written)
English: advanced (spoken and written)

COMPENSATION: 12 Million JPY per year

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in accounting-related positions is a plus
• Experience in the Insurance industry is a plus
• Experience in accounting/ audit firm is a plus

SKILLS:

• Understanding of J GAAP accounting (equivalent to Nissho bookkeeping second grade)
• Strong command of Microsoft Excel. Can handle large amount of data
• Good understanding of Data structure and system flow

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Product owner for customer and call center interface managing customer journey related to monetary transactions (e.g. premium payment)

• Understand current billing center definition and defining the vision of the billing center
• Managing and prioritizing the product backlog
• Ensure development team understand the backlog
• Design & develop functionality for process simplification
• Primary liaison between the team working on the billing center from different divisions

2. Premium collection control & accounting

• Monitor the daily premium collection process (Direct debit, credit card, CVS, etc.)
• Reconcile premium collections with banks account movements
• Validate proper accounting of premiums related posting (premium issued, the premium collected, suspense accounts, premium canceled etc.)
• Generate reports related to premiums (collected, uncollected, by payment method, etc.)