Business and Finance Analyst

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Job details

Company overview

We are part of North America's largest group of personal insurance providers, offering extended warranty services for consumer electronics, appliances, and smartphones. We are one of the fastest growing warranty service providers in recent years, offering a wide variety of warranty programs in more than 16 countries around the world. In Japan, we also offers immediate and in-person repair services through its stores.

Responsibilities

This Business and Finance Analyst will help maximize Japan subsidiary’s profitability through providing reporting, analysis and insights on business performance. This role will report to the Commercial Performance Director.This role will be responsible for helping build financial models and create reports. Well-qualified candidates will have experience in analyzing business data and building financial models. The day-to-day tasks include creating and maintaining financial models, reporting KPIs with dashboard, conducting ad-hoc analyses.
Main responsibilities:

• Prepare financial forecasts. Work with stakeholders from the US finance team and Japan business team to ensure that the business is aware of the path forward and can set goals and objectives accordingly
• Provide insights. Analyze the business performance and data and tune it into regular reporting where appropriate
• Help improve the overall company's performance. Identify opportunities to improve, or mitigate risks.
• Build and maintain financial models of Japan subsidiaries (extended warranty and smartphone repair business) using Excel
• Pull claim data from database (repair data, store performance) using SQL
• Clean and import raw data using Python (data quality assurance)
• Build and automate KPI dashboards (claim mix, customer satisfaction) using Tableau
• Prepare documents for senior leadership (summarize business case and financial impacts) working with the US Finance and Analytics team
• Work with the Japanese clients and the repair partners to discuss finance related issues
• Identify problems and opportunities for Operations team (analyze repair costs, reduce stocks)
• Give recommendations for Sales team (pricing impact analysis, claim forecast, ROI analysis)

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Curious growth mind-set, looking to add value and expand knowledge
• Financial modeling in Excel
• Attention to detail
• Logical and numerical reasoning
• Documentation of business cases/plans in Japanese and English
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience of work experience as finance analyst or data analyst
• Created financial forecasts in Excel
• Prepared KPI reports and analyzed business data
• Worked both with the domestic and international companies

Preferred qualifications:

• Data analysis with Python, SQL & Tableau preferred, but not required

 

The appeal

Benefits of joining the business:

• Growing business opportunities
• Monthly allowances for phone/internet, wellness, and professional development
• Flexible working environment
• Inclusive hybrid work model

Salary

6 - 9 million yen

Location

Tokyo