HTM Corporation

HTM Corporation provides bilingual back-office services to foreign companies with offices in Japan. The company states it has 37 years of experience and currently supports 200 clients and their 6,000 employees, ranging in size from one to over 1,000 employees in Japan, with most relying solely on HTM for their bilingual back-office support.

Payroll management covers monthly payroll and bonus administration, health and pension insurance administration, annual local tax updates and year-end tax adjustment, with an employee portal used to record work time and issue pay slips. HR services include setting up and maintaining work rules, registering joining and leaving employees, managing maternity and childcare leave, family care leave and sick leave, annual labour filings, and company health programmes.

HTM also handles accounting work such as cash management and treasury payments, monthly bookkeeping and closing, budgets and forecasts, audits, annual corporate tax filings, and employee expense reimbursement, along with general administration covering company establishment, representative director appointment, shareholder meetings and reporting, and management of documents and company stamps. An in-house IT development team builds bilingual custom systems for client-specific requirements.

The firm employs 70 professionals representing 20 nationalities, all bilingual, and exchanges information in English and Japanese through online portals for clients and their employees that are available around the clock.