Director of Finance

Rakuten, Inc. (TSE's first section: 4755) is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest ecommerce marketplace company worldwide. Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.

• Perform statutory, management, and responsibility reporting, including forecasting, budgeting, and reporting on performance against forecast and budget commitments along with performance vs prior year.
• Prepare monthly reporting for the Senior Leaders.
• Explain trends, drivers, and exceptions in business activities.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis as required.
• Provide weekly updates to the CEO, COO and CFO, analyzing changes to forecast and performance against budget and highlight areas of concerns.
• Work closely with company leaders to develop financial forecasts and operational goals, apply business judgment and financial insights to assist with decision making.
• Build financial models from scratch, maintain and update models, improve accuracy and simplification of existing models, perform automate summary reporting.
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan, using insights to iterate on forecasts and create action.
• Responsible for overseeing weekly forecasting and reporting to parent company; annual budgeting and periodic re-estimates; sales commission calculations across all channels; FP&A support to global partners and shareholders.
• Provide upper management with talking points for all finance related presentations.
• Provide detailed revenue analytics to business units and senior management and help to ensure key financial targets are met.
• Responsible for Quarterly DCF preparation and performance to budget analysis for Audit team.
• Prepare comprehensive variance analysis reports on monthly, quarterly and annual basis, explaining the key drivers and storylines affecting outcomes.
• Execute and operationalize the insights gained from models and analysis.
• Manage finance professionals.

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Economics, Marketing, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field.
• Five (5) years of experience in financial planning and analysis, or related experience.
• Experience with financial modeling.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of international financial reporting standards.
• Experience with financial management of international subsidiaries.
• Experience using SAP enterprise resource planning software.
• Demonstrated knowledge of budgeting software.
• Experience integrating acquired companies.
• Experience performing product financial analysis.
• Experience providing financial reporting for a publicly traded company.
• Knowledge of financial statement analysis and accounting.
• Experience with data visualization, generating insights, and reporting.
• Experience managing professional employees, including, training, motivating, and career development.
• Knowledge of digital marketing.
• Any amount of experience with the required skills is acceptable.