Financial Analyst Full Time

Job Reference: BWJ037
Compensation: 6-8mil JPY salary
Other: you can work from home (50%)

Position Summary:

The Financial Analyst (FA) will be responsible for the provision of business performance reports, daily sales report, retail sales report and support to report to both internal and outside Japan.

The FA is the key business partner for the management team, marketing, Chanel Customer Marketing team and sales team of Japan who holds commercial responsibility over Japan. He or she is also in charge of global business performance reporting.

The role reports to the Finance Director (FD) Japan and is part of the Japan finance Team.

Required Skills & Traits:

• Strong ability of data analysis (Strong excel skill is must: VLOOKUP, PIVOT, SUMIF)
• Strong ability of making graphs (Excel, Power Point)
• Proven analytical thinker
• Strong communication skills within a multicultural environment
• Proven ability to work across functions, carry out data analysis, identify trends, and develop commercial options to address commercial issues.
• Proven skills in planning & reporting techniques and methods, incl. KPIs management
• Deep SAP knowledge an advantage
• Finance or accounting knowledge are preferred (Boki 2 Kyu)
• Native Japanese
• Fluency in English preferred, knowledge of other languages is a plus
• Customer and results oriented
• Pragmatic/hands on approach/ Problem solver
• Adaptive/flexible, but firm when required
• Self-starter/ team player/ motivator

Key Activities & Responsibilities

• Responsible for monthly business performance report on depletion, shipment, inventory part
• Responsible for data mining and make comparison report on the above comparing previous year and budget number
• Responsible for improving excel data base to operate more easily more accurately
• Support data input of marketing, sales, supply teams
• Responsible for establishing process on daily sales report
• Responsible for establishing process on RDP (Retail Data Products) report by brand by region
• Responsible for making report which shows business performance both on figures and graphs
• Supporting of strategic business plan, yearly budget, monthly forecast
• Supporting of business performance report to APAC
• Supports decision making partnering the relevant team and put timely financial insights, fulfilling sales, marketing and management information requests
• Responsible for supporting balance sheet analysis
• Responsible for other things related to above

Key Relationships

Internal: Finance Director Japan, Off-shore finance team, Marketing team Japan, Sales team Japan

External: Outsource vendors

Experience & Education

• Minimum 3+ years of financial data analysis
• Experience on handling big data
• Experience on making excel data base which is user friendly to input
• Experience on subtracting data from SAP
• Experience on making clear business performance report to parent company outside Japan
• Experience on making clear business performance reports with data and graphs
• Experience in consumer goods industries preferred