Commercial Finance Manager

• Financial partnership to Marketing and Commercial — the guidance that shapes decisions before they're made

• Evaluation of business initiatives using return on investment, net present value, payback and scenario analysis — translated into a recommendation, not a spreadsheet

• The budget process with Marketing and Commercial, including whether spend is actually landing where the plan said it would

• Variance analysis that budget holders can act on, delivered early enough to matter

• Support to the annual plan and quarterly budget cycles, and the accuracy of what we report

• Financial controls and governance across functions — kept effective without making the commercial teams slower

• Material for senior, regional and global stakeholders that makes a decision easy to take

What you'll bring

• Confident investment analysis, plus the commercial reading of what the numbers mean

• Enough understanding of marketing and trade activity to challenge it credibly

• Experience of pricing and excise, and of a full company planning cycle

• Curiosity and a willingness to challenge the status quo persuasively

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a finance business partner, ideally in consumer goods

• Fluent Japanese and English

Where this leads
Typical next steps are Senior Commercial Finance Manager, then Commercial or Corporate Finance Controller, or Finance Director in a small-to-mid-size market outside Japan.