HR Payroll Specialist

Background

Currently, GREE Group is promoting business diversification and strengthening its revenue base, with "Games," "Metaverse," and "DX" as its three core areas. With the transition to a holding company system from January 2025, we are also strengthening our human resources to enhance GREE Group's corporate governance and achieve sustainable growth.

The roles required of Central HR are also diversifying. We are looking for colleagues who can work with us to build and execute more effective and efficient HR business processes, incorporating new knowledge, as a foundation to support the business growth of each group subsidiary.

Job Description

As the Central HR Payroll Department of GREE Group, your mission will be to broadly handle payroll functions, supporting the business promotion and growth of GREE Holdings itself and its group operating companies. For HR operations, you will promote the introduction of new systems, review, improve, and streamline business processes to ensure stable operation. You will also be involved in many projects, such as the introduction of new systems for the parent company and subsidiaries due to group business growth, and the establishment of new subsidiaries.

◆Specific Job Content

• Promotion of improvement and efficiency in overall payroll-centric operations and systems.
• Promotion of HR domain response in various business projects (planning, PM).
• Response to legal revisions, formulation of operational rules, and establishment of flows.
• Business coordination and adjustment with outsourced vendors (including overseas vendors) for payroll operations.
• Operation of stock compensation schemes and welfare programs.
• Coordination and adjustment with other departments such as accounting, tax, and legal.

About the HR Department

About the Organizational Structure

It consists of a Talent Management Team responsible for overall recruitment and organizational development, a Payroll Team responsible for salary and social insurance, an HR Planning Team that handles system planning, and a Labor Relations Team.

About the Payroll Team

The payroll team consists of about 10 members, including 6 full-time employees and dispatched or outsourced members, who are highly skilled payroll specialists.

This department is responsible for overall payroll functions for the entire GREE Group, including new hires/departures, salary and social insurance, organizational management, attendance, secondments, and the operation of stock compensation schemes. They drive various projects, large and small, such as introducing payroll functions required at each phase for group subsidiaries in various stages.

Appeal of the Position

"Breadth" and "Depth" of Work Scope

You can expand your experience as an HR specialist in an environment where you can experience both the "breadth" of work with group companies of diverse business forms and the "depth" of HR operations unique to a large corporate scale. Furthermore, since you will be responsible for designing, planning, and executing the entire business process from both operational and system perspectives, you can deepen your understanding of HR business processes and enhance your system knowledge.

Each business has a fast growth rate, and in the payroll operations domain, there are opportunities to promote various projects, large and small, to respond to these changes, allowing you to deepen your expertise and broaden your experience as a corporate HR professional.

For future career paths, this position allows for either specializing and enhancing your skills or developing your abilities in a management role.

Application Requirements

◆Required Skills/Experience

• Basic knowledge of payroll operations such as salary and social insurance, and 3+ years of practical payroll experience.

◆Welcome Skills/Experience

• Experience in business design, construction, and operation using systems.
• Payroll experience in companies with over 300 employees.
• Experience in managing domestic/international payroll and stock compensation.
• Experience in a central HR position at a group company with multiple subsidiaries.
• Experience in general HR-related operations such as HR systems, labor relations, and welfare (at an operating company or outsourcer).
• Experience using cloud tools like Google G Suite, and advanced skills in Office-related software (especially Excel).

Desired Candidate Profile

• Individuals who can proactively engage in tasks with a sense of problem-solving.
• Individuals with expertise in general HR to stably support growth, and flexible thinking to adapt to new initiatives and changes while supporting the business side.
• Individuals who can explore ideal solutions for unknown HR tasks in cooperation with others.
• Individuals who resonate with our action guidelines below:

GREE's Mission, Vision, and Values

Job Details

Employment Type

Full-time employee

Salary

Negotiable

• Monthly salary system
• Includes the equivalent of 45 hours of overtime pay. *Overtime exceeding this will be paid.
• Salary review: Twice a year (February and August)
• Determined according to company regulations based on experience, performance, ability, and contribution.
• Bonus: Twice a year (February and August)
• Determined by company performance, individual performance, etc.
• Probationary period: Yes (generally 3 months; no change in treatment during the probationary period *according to company regulations)

Location of Work / Map

106-0032 Tokyo, Minato-ku, Roppongi 6-11-1 Roppongi Hills Gate Tower

Measures against passive smoking

No smoking indoors (outdoor smoking area available)

Employment Type Remarks

• Depending on the job type/position, there is a possibility of being offered employment as a fixed-term contract employee.

Please be aware in advance. (Track record of conversion to full-time employee available)

Selection Process

• Document screening + approximately 3 interviews + (if successful) offer meeting
• The number of interviews may change depending on the situation.
• Interviews/dinners may be conducted in between if necessary.
• The selection process is expected to be conducted online, but we would like to arrange at least one opportunity for an in-person meeting.

Company Information

Business Content

• Game Business
• Metaverse Business
• IP Business
• DX Business
• Investment Business

Established

December 7, 2004

Representative

Representative Director, Chairman & President Yoshikazu Tanaka

Head Office Location

Roppongi Hills Gate Tower, 6-11-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Number of Employees

1,533 (Group total, as of end of March 2025)

Working Hours

09:30～18:30 (8 hours actual work) 60 minutes break

*For discretionary labor (professional/planning), the above hours are a standard and left to the worker.

Scope of Change in Place of Work

(Immediately after hiring, scope of change*)

Company's office or location designated by the company; for remote work, according to internal rules.

• "Scope of change" refers to the range of workplaces that may change due to future reassignments.

Holidays and Vacations

Complete two-day weekend system (Saturday and Sunday), national holidays, annual paid leave (10 days granted 3 months after joining), summer vacation, year-end and New Year holidays, congratulatory/condolence leave, family leave, etc.

Benefits

• GREE Family Support

Family remote work, family leave, babysitter subsidy, reduced/staggered working hours

• GREE Lifestyle Support

Drink subsidy, corporate defined contribution pension, employee stock ownership plan (employee stock ownership plan is for full-time employees only)

Please check here for details: https://corp.gree.net/jp/ja/recruit/benefit/

Various Insurances

Health insurance, welfare pension, employment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance

Work Style

Currently, our company adopts a work style that combines remote work and office attendance.

(Depending on the department, it is approximately 3-4 days remote work and 1-2 days office attendance.)

*Initially, to help you get accustomed to the work and company culture, we anticipate that you will be required to come to the office for a certain period.

Please confirm details during the interview.

Scope of Change in Duties to be Performed

Duties designated by the company.

Criteria for renewing a fixed-term labor contract (including limits on total contract period or number of renewals)

• Renewal may occur after the company notifies the employee in advance and obtains the employee's consent, but automatic renewal will not be performed.
• The decision to renew will also consider the following circumstances:

(1) Company's business conditions

(2) Changes in job content or contract terms

(3) Work performance, attitude, or attendance during the contract period

(4) Ability to perform duties, or work efficiency

(5) Progress of duties

(6) Changes in workload, or workload at the end of the contract period

(7) Compliance with company regulations, including work rules

(8) Other circumstances equivalent to the above items

• The period of the employment contract shall, in principle, not exceed one year, and even if renewed, the total employment period from the initial contract signing shall not exceed four years.