Senior Accountant

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About Crunchyroll

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

About The Role

In the role at Crunchyroll as a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for the accurate record keeping of our growing number and value of content assets and related liabilities under the applicable IFRS standards and Crunchyroll/Sony accounting policies.

Reporting to our Senior Manager, Content Accounting, you will be heavily involved in month-end close activities such as content data report preparation, journal entry preparation, and reconciliation preparation. You will help resolve complex accounting issues, working cross-functionally with royalty, deal, and FP&A teams, and responding to internal and external inquiries.

A day in the life of our Content Senior Accountant:

You will be a part of the team responsible for the financial integrity of our content commitments, assets (capitalization), liabilities (payments), and expenses (amortization) and while ensuring the connectivity and consistency of our reporting among other related groups (such as the royalty reporting team (FCR) and deal management team).

The Senior Accountant will work closely with the Content Accounting team to ensure the accuracy of records that are maintained in our financial ledgers (NetSuite) as they pertain to Content Accounting related accounts.

Some of the responsibilities include

• Preparing monthly and quarterly close journal entries accounting for all content assets and liabilities acquired in the period
• Preparing quarterly royalty expense and liability calculations based on the performance of titles
• Developing a deep understanding of our content data in order to analyze and reconcile monthly, and proactively resolving issues through cross-functional collaboration
• Performing detailed financial statement analyses, including discussions on various issues, analysis, preparation, and review of account reconciliations
• Collaborating with Deal Management and Business Affairs (as needed) to understand proper accounting treatment for content agreements and transactions (e.g. licensing contracts, co-production deals, etc.)
• Supporting FP&A team by providing accurate financial data to assist with their budget vs. actual analysis
• Partnering with the Senior Manager, Content Accounting to ensure timely completion of ad hoc financial analyses, and prioritize process improvement initiatives within the team
• Participate in system implementations/upgrades, and various process automation projects by performing user acceptance testing and other reviewing t

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$87,000 — $108,800 USD

About our Values

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Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.

Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.

• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

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