Top Finance Jobs in Japan

Supports Coach Japan financial forecasting, sales and gross-margin planning, periodic reporting, variance analysis, and long-range planning. Communicates performance insights to leadership and business partners, supports sales-driving promotions, evaluates store-related CAPEX investments, and performs ad-hoc financial analysis. Requires advanced Excel, Japanese and English proficiency, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders.

Support Japan deal structuring and business development finance across deal lifecycle. Perform financial modelling, scenario analysis, benchmarking, and ROI/NPV reviews. Advise account teams and legal on deal economics and compliance, drive reporting and data integrity, build financial capabilities within the business, and support regional Deal Management projects to ensure profitable, compliant customer agreements.

Manage financial planning and analysis functions, support strategic decision-making, collaborate with business leaders, and drive company performance through budget management and financial insights.

Provides finance administration, accounts payable support, supplier onboarding, office administration, facilities coordination, business development assistance, and English-Japanese translation and interpretation for Japan operations. Responsibilities include invoice processing, reconciliations, reporting, records management, proposal support, client engagement, stakeholder coordination, and process improvement. The role is based in Tokyo, requires four days per week in the office, and supports multiple workstreams independently.

Supports R&D finance through budgeting, forecasting, expenditure monitoring, variance analysis, and financial reporting. Partners with Japan-based and global R&D stakeholders to provide decision-support insights, performs IFRS-compliant accounting for R&D expenses, and identifies opportunities to simplify, improve, and automate related processes and systems.

Associates will evaluate and execute investment opportunities in renewable energy, perform due diligence, model financials, and support negotiations.

Leads APAC financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, P&L and cash flow analysis. Performs variance analysis, translates results into leadership insights, improves reporting through automation, maintains financial data accuracy, supports strategic projects, and coaches junior team members.

Partner with commercial leadership to manage P&L, FP&A, budgeting, reporting, and compliance for Orthopaedics/DePuy Synthes Japan. Support financial planning, inventory and CAPEX oversight, separation/ERP migration activities, audits, and cross-functional initiatives while providing insights to drive growth, profitability, and governance.

Develop user-facing financial AI and equity research algorithms across query understanding, document processing, entity recognition, event detection, retrieval, ranking, and quality evaluation. Build datasets, labeling systems, benchmarks, and production evaluation frameworks. Apply large language models, NLP, machine learning, reinforcement learning, knowledge graphs, and multimodal methods while collaborating with engineers to deploy and continuously optimize financial data and knowledge systems.

Leads JV and Japan manufacturing operations finance, including financial planning, manufacturing cost analysis, capital expenditure governance, fixed assets, treasury support, METI subsidy compliance, audits, internal controls, and process improvement. Serves as the primary finance liaison with JV partners and cross-functional stakeholders while managing and developing three Senior Analysts. Requires extensive finance experience, strong business partnering and governance skills, and native Japanese with business-level English.

The Associate Director of Institutional Sales will develop and manage client relationships, raise institutional capital, and collaborate on business development within Japan.

Sell Zscaler cloud-native security solutions to major enterprise finance accounts in Japan. Build C-level relationships, design long-term account strategies, coordinate cross-functional teams (Customer Success, Enablement, Architecture), and drive cloud transformation through strategic sales and trusted advisory engagement.

Leads day-to-day finance operations for FT Japan and supports other Asia entities. Responsibilities include financial close and reporting, reconciliations, variance analysis, statutory and tax compliance, audits, internal controls, treasury, banking, payments, stakeholder management, and finance transformation initiatives. The role partners with regional Accounting Services and Finance teams to improve processes, strengthen governance, and ensure compliance with Japanese regulations, IFRS, and FT Group policies.

Leads Japan finance strategy, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, revenue management, pricing, contract reviews, and net working capital optimization. Partners with business, operations, and regional finance teams to translate financial data into actionable decisions, strengthen controls, ensure compliance, improve workflows, and support finance transformation and system enhancements. Requires fluent Japanese and English communication and strong analytical, commercial, and collaboration skills.

Own the finance inventory platform roadmap and product lifecycle, including requirements, integrations, UAT, releases, troubleshooting, and data migrations. Build Python, SQL, VBA, dashboard, and low-code tools independently while automating finance workflows with AI, LLMs, copilots, and RPA. Lead ERP integrations, reconciliations, documentation, and scalable finance transformation initiatives while managing stakeholders across operations and senior leadership.

Manage financial, management, statutory, tax, and cash-flow reporting; prepare annual reports and statutory accounts; oversee reconciliations and compliance; liaise with auditors and advisors; and drive finance transformation through AI, automation, data analytics, and technology. Partner with systems, data, engineering, and business teams to implement scalable finance solutions and improve controls, efficiency, and accuracy.

Manage capital expenditure reporting, forecasting, budgeting, governance, accounting, compliance, and investment reviews across manufacturing plants in Japan and Korea. Lead annual and multi-year capex planning, analyze variances and returns, enforce controls, coordinate stakeholders, and drive process standardization, digitization, automation, and SAP upgrade initiatives. Ensure audit readiness, tax and statutory compliance, benefits tracking, and post-investment reviews while advising senior management on capital decisions.

Manage commercial finance and FP&A activities, including financial and management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, ROI measurement, and business partnering. Monitor sales, gross margin, and profitability against plans, recommend corrective actions, improve reporting processes, and support cross-functional initiatives as a finance PMO.

Lead financial reporting and analysis for Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and performance monitoring. Provide financial insights and recommendations to support business decisions, improve profitability, and enhance processes. Facilitate collaboration with internal business partners, support cross-functional initiatives, manage PMO activities for Calvin Klein expansion, drive brand integration, and assist the Director of FP&A in advancing business objectives.

Lead IT finance planning and control, produce monthly financial packs and variance analysis, support budgeting, forecasting and investment cases, ensure financial controls and month-end close, and partner with IT leadership and finance teams to manage spend, prioritization, and governance.

Lead and support finance-related internal audits: plan audits, perform risk-based testing, review working papers, manage progress and budgets, assess findings, draft English audit reports, and support remediation actions while collaborating with senior management and global audit teams.

Join MetLife Japan's Finance Audit team to perform risk-based testing, review audit working papers, complete audits within time budgets, assess and rate audit findings, prepare discussion papers, and support remediation plans. Collaborate with executives and overseas audit teams and maintain audit quality while pursuing professional development such as CIA certification and English skill improvement.

Manages project finance, accounting compliance, statutory and group reporting, internal controls, audits, tax coordination, and financial risk. Oversees project budgets, costs, margins, revenue recognition, contracts, and subcontractor payments. Supports month-end and year-end close, reconciliations, regulatory compliance, SOX controls, process automation, ERP implementation, and finance transformation. Supervises assistant accountants and provides technical accounting guidance across PRC GAAP, IFRS, and US GAAP requirements.

Own an AI finance product vertical end-to-end, including strategy, metrics, roadmap, technical design, delivery, and launch. Partner with engineering on APIs, data flows, ledgering, reconciliation, security, scalability, and failure handling. Integrate regulatory requirements across KYC, transaction monitoring, limits, privacy, and licensing. Apply AI with evaluation, safeguards, human oversight, and reliability controls while aligning engineering, compliance, operations, treasury, finance, and design.

Lead and manage the Thailand finance function including local and US GAAP monthly close, budgeting, forecasts, OPEX and balance sheet review, working capital, audits, tax compliance, SOX/FCPA controls, business partnering, process improvements, and team coaching.