Bookkeeper & System Analyst EU

TSK Laboratory, Japan (TSKJ) is a Japanese family owned company based in Tochigi, Japan that was established in 1973 and employs a total of 200 people. The company has three factories that are specialized in producing specialty needles for the medical, dental, ophthalmology and aesthetic markets.  The company is known for its high quality needles and has a well-established brand name.  Our factories are built to be flexible and to manufacture in small to mid-size production runs on manual, semi-manual and fully automatic production lines.

The company sells worldwide and has a subsidiary in Canada, China and The Netherlands.  TSK Laboratory Europe B.V. (TSKEU) was established in 2010 to manage all sales, marketing and distribution activities in the Europe, Middle East, Russia and Latin America. All global offices work very independently from TSK Laboratory, Japan and they can be considered as stand-alone organizations. TSK Laboratory Europe employs 1 Managing Director, 1 Marketing Manager, 1 Key Account Manager, 1 Controller & System Analyst and 1 Customer Service Manager.

TSK Europe is a small lean organization with a lot of room for individual input and development. All people in the organization are focused on customer service and the QA, RA, CS Rep will help manage all orders and administrative tasks and bring technical, quality assurance and regulatory focus to the team. We are looking for a person to help support our growth across all company functions, manage all customer service related issues and help grow the sales through our distribution and retail channel.  In addition, this person will be responsible to assist with all technical, quality assurance and regulatory documentation for our B2B customers and customers outside the EU

TSK Laboratory Europe continues to expand and with the completion of our new Clinical Collaboration Centre, our new high end office and modern distribution center, we plan to aggressively grow our team in the next year. This global expansion also brings the need for a global ERP system, more global finance integration and global reporting responsibilities. Our financial compliance responsibility include all local reporting, internal reporting and annual control audit . This position will not only be responsible for assisting with the daily bookkeeping and maintaining the financial system maintenance responsibilities at TSK Europe, but also support the European expansion plans of TSKEU.

General Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for ensuring that the overall finance processes and initiatives are implemented and maintained.
2. Support with all bookkeeping activities in collaboration with our Accounting Assistant.
3. Support with the day-to-day business activities in Europe when needed.

Accounting:

1. Ensure that accounts payable are paid in a timely manner.
2. Ensure that accounts receivable is collected promptly
3. Maintain the chart of accounts and GL accounts.
4. Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.

System Analysist Responsibilities:

1. Maintain and update the accounting, purchase and sales modules in EXACT online, the warehouse management software BizBloqs and PowerBI.
2. Producing specifications for new or modified ERP systems worldwide.
3. Support with implementing NETSUITE at TSK Europe.
4. Evaluates manual and automated financial accounting work processes, systems, and procedures for efficiency of workflow

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (i.e. minimum education, years of experience, etc.)

1. Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business administration, or equivalent business experience.
2. Minimum of 2 years’ experience in related responsibilities.
3. Fluent in English is required.
4. Working knowledge of Microsoft WORD, EXCEL and POWERPOINT and the willingness to learn new software. Knowledge in EXACT, NETSUITE or other accounting systems a plus.
5. Excellent organizational, interpersonal and analytical skills.
6. Primarily work in an office environment. Periodic weekend or evening work is expected.

Core Competencies:

1. People Skills – listening, interpersonal, savvy, cooperation and conflict resolution, oral and written communication.
2. Customer Focus Skills – customer service, quality orientation, communicates clearly, concisely, effective and persuasively in writing.
3. Personal Skills – dependability, versatility/flexibility, creativity, action oriented, personal learning, functional and technical knowledge, integrity and trust. Is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging.

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities, skills, effort, or working conditions as associated with a job. While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserve the right to modify, add or remove from particular jobs and to assign other duties necessary.