Senior Financial Analyst - Tokyo

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Adobe is a place where exceptional people work – We’re proud to offer market competitive employee benefits designed to suit you and your lifestyle. Some of the great benefits include health insurance, global days off, wellness fund, parental leave, access to our Employee Stock Purchase Program and programs designed to help you continue to build your career.

We also proudly empower our employees to get involved with corporate social responsibility and offer a broad range of opportunities to enable you to make a bigger impact through philanthropy, employee, and community engagement.

We know that people are the differentiator in our business, and that's why we want to meet you!

The Opportunity

Fantastic opportunity to join the Japan Finance team as we continue to build a top-class FP&A team that provides analytics insights, implements changes, and actively drives our rapid top line growth and margin expansion.

You will support the JP Director Sales for the Digital Media B2C business and  be responsible for the Financial performance for  JP B2C Sales organisation.

The role is located in Tokyo, reporting to the Senior Manager, FP&A, Asia-Pacific and Japan.

What you'll do:

Planning

Lead top line planning, rolling forecasting & reporting processes across the B2C Digital Media business for JP, including ARR, bookings. Develop and communicate targets, lead overall planning process, evaluate final results and synthesize and communicate to JP and Corporate leadership teams.

Forecasting

Design appropriate process, methodology, variables and modelling techniques to develop and deliver forecast of ARR. Be very curious with strong desire to drive issues to root cause, such as in the explanation of key variances between actuals and plans / forecasts

Reporting

Prepare executive facing reporting materials to summarize financial performance, such as quarterly financial review package, presentation decks for Quarterly Business Reviews and Executive visits.

Process Excellence & Automation

Drive efficient in processes & reporting, visuals that speak for themselves and self-service tools though smart use of the latest finance tools! Be the primary finance contact with the Adobe finance systems team and help make finance data and operating metrics easy to find and use.

Business Partnering

Actively engage and collaborate with JP and regional sales teams to drive solid financial analysis and deliver financial insight across supported markets.

Provide advice to business groups in managing budgets and driving to-line metrics.

What you need to succeed:

• Multi National Organization Experience desirable
• Positive and “can do” attitude as well as sense of urgency to complete tasks is essential.
• Ability to work closely with sales teams with credibility, independence and integrity.
• The position requires solid understanding of financial fundamentals, strong analytical and problem solving skills, accuracy, and excellent communication skills to articulate key business and financial impacts.
• Detail oriented with strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• A team player who can work closely with peers – across borders and cross cultures.
• Someone with a strong understanding of technology sales and experience in gathering and analyzing sales data.
• Strong understanding of Financial Systems and processes. Proficiency in MS Excel essential and PowerBI, TM1, Tableau, Anaplan experience would be a plus. 
• Experience in SAAS business model and understanding of related sales analytics, or finance issues is desirable.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance or related field; Professional qualification (CA/CPA/MBA) desirable
• Minimum 8 years of FP&A (or related) experience required
• Business proficiency in English required.
• Business proficiency in Japanese preferred.

Adobe for All

Adobe strives to create an environment where our employees can do their best work and drive their career growth and development based on their personal goals. From fair-pay practices to Employee Networks and programs designed to make everyone feel included, we're committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace for all.

Take the plunge and jump in

Liking what you have read and keen to jump in? Thinking you might not have all the skills we are looking for? Just take the plunge and apply – we know that by bringing together a diverse group of people, we become so much better together. We'd love to see where we can help drive Creativity for All together.

Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of gender, race or colour, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

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