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.