A global consumer products company is looking for a Lead Analyst, FP&A. The selected candidate will partner with business leaders across Sales, Strategy Planning & Digital Experience, and Customer Service to drive financial planning, performance analysis, forecasting, and actionable recommendations that support Sales and Operating Profit.
Responsibilities
Collect, compile, and analyze financial data, monitor key metrics including income, expenses, operating costs, and CapEx, and support accurate accounting and financial assessments.
Analyze actual results against budgets and forecasts, identify underlying variance drivers, and communicate risks, opportunities, and actionable recommendations to business leaders.
Prepare budgets, quarterly forecasts, financial plans, and management reports for Sales, Strategy Planning & Digital Experience, and Customer Service, while evaluating how spending and KPIs contribute to business performance.
Partner with Sales to understand Cost Center strategies, Action Plans, spending priorities, and distributor incentive programs, including non-cash awards; assess their impact on Sales, bonus costs, COI, distributors, and buyers.
Objectively evaluate operating expense effectiveness and review Customer Service payment-method KPIs to support achievement of financial targets.
Support the design, development, and maintenance of financial reporting systems and tools while ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory, operational, and corporate policies and procedures.
Collaborate with an overseas shared services center to validate data integrity and reporting accuracy, and coordinate with Centers of Excellence to align financial assumptions, methodologies, and shared data inputs.
Requirements
Fluent Japanese communication skills at business level, equivalent to JLPT N1.
Strong ability to interpret large volumes of financial and numerical data, draw accurate conclusions, and translate complex financial information into actionable business insights for stakeholders and global audiences.
Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and intermediate-level macros.
Ability to prepare executive-level reports, including data preparation, synthesis of findings into action points and recommendations, and effective presentation design.
Understanding of general financial and accounting principles, including working knowledge of GAAP and their practical application.
Database programming skills using tools such as TM1, Cognos, and Access.
Ability to collaborate effectively in virtual, cross-functional, multicultural teams across multiple international regions and to build trust-based relationships with internal clients, peers, and external vendors.
Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and constructive conflict-resolution skills.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail, quality, sound prioritization, and effective resource and time management.
Strong consulting, advisory, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to apply analytical tools, financial modeling, logical reasoning, and business judgment to develop recommendations.
Benefits
Health insurance
Employees' pension
Employment insurance
Industrial injury insurance
A minimum of 10 days of leave granted from the seventh month after joining, in accordance with Japanese labor law
About the Company
A global consumer products company engaged in the import and sale of a broad range of household and consumer products, including home care, housewares, personal care, nutrition, and gourmet products. The role offers the opportunity to work closely with multiple business functions and international teams, applying financial analysis to business planning and decision-making.