Position Summary
The Finance Manager, Japan is responsible for leading the country's finance function, including financial planning & analysis, controllership, compliance, business partnering, and team leadership. This role serves as a strategic advisor to the Japan leadership team, driving business performance, financial integrity, and achievement of corporate objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders to support strategic decision-making and profitable growth.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
- Deliver insightful financial analysis, performance reporting, and business recommendations.
- Drive revenue, margin, cash flow, and working capital improvements.
- Evaluate investments, commercial proposals, pricing, and capital expenditure requests.
- Ensure compliance with SOX, Vertiv policies, accounting standards, tax regulations, and local statutory requirements.
- Lead internal and external audits and maintain a strong internal control environment.
- Manage banking, tax, insurance, and financial risk management activities.
- Drive finance process improvements, automation, and reporting enhancements.
- Lead, coach, and develop the finance team while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with regional and global finance teams to ensure alignment with corporate objectives.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
- CPA, CA, JCPA, or equivalent professional qualification.
- 8+ years of progressive finance experience in multinational environments.
- Strong experience in financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and controllership.
- Proven people leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial acumen and business partnering capability.
- Business-level Japanese（JLPT N1） and business level of English skills.
Preferred
- Experience in industrial, engineering, manufacturing, infrastructure, or technology sectors.
- Knowledge of Japanese statutory reporting and tax requirements.
- Experience leading finance transformation or process improvement initiatives.
What Success Looks Like
- Trusted financial advisor to the Japan leadership team.
- Accurate and insightful financial planning, reporting, and forecasting.
- Strong governance, compliance, and internal controls.
- Improved profitability, cash flow, and working capital performance.
- Development of a high-performing finance organization.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field
- CPA, CA, JCPA, or equivalent professional qualification
- 8+ years of progressive finance experience in multinational environments
- Experience in financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and controllership
- People leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Commercial acumen and business partnering capability
- Business-level Japanese proficiency, JLPT N1
- Business-level English proficiency
- Experience in industrial, engineering, manufacturing, infrastructure, or technology sectors
- Knowledge of Japanese statutory reporting and tax requirements
- Experience leading finance transformation or process improvement initiatives
Vertiv Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with standard medical, dental, and vision plans plus wellness and mental-health resources. Core offerings also include disability and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO typical of large employers, and many U.S. salaried roles feature flexible or "unlimited" PTO approaches. These programs are part of a structured, global total rewards framework.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair at start for many office-based, engineering, and field service roles, and total compensation packages are viewed as stable. In some hourly manufacturing settings, overtime opportunities help boost overall earnings.
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What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
