Director of FP&A

Role Overview

The Director of FP&A will lead Japan’s planning and forecasting processes, develop forward-looking forecasts, and provide a clear and timely view of the financial outlook to senior leadership. The role requires significant progressive experience in FP&A, financial management, or a related discipline, with a strong commercial and strategic mindset.

What You Will Do

The Director of FP&A will lead analysis of actual results versus plan, forecast, and prior periods, translate financial and operational information into actionable insights, and recommend management actions. The role also involves simplifying, standardizing, and automating planning, forecasting, analytics, and management reporting processes.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have a strong financial planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and analytical capabilities, with the ability to identify business and financial drivers. The role requires excellent senior-stakeholder management and business-partnering skills, including the confidence to constructively challenge assumptions and influence decisions.

Requirements

• Significant progressive experience in FP&A, financial management, business finance, or a related discipline
• Director-level leadership capability expected
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
• Strong financial planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and analytical capabilities
• Strong commercial and strategic mindset with the ability to balance financial discipline with business objectives
• Excellent senior-stakeholder management and business-partnering skills
• Ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly and concisely to finance and non-finance audiences
• Proven leadership, people-management, and talent-development capability in a complex, fast-moving environment with competing priorities
• Business-level Japanese and English

Tagged as: Financial Modeling, Forecasting