Corporate Planning Finance Leader Candidate
Japan’s largest mobile payments platform (~75M users); SoftBank/LY Corporation fintech JV; 40% equity holder of Binance Japan.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
About PayPay
PayPay Corporation is a Tokyo-based fintech company operating Japan’s leading QR/mobile payment service, founded 2018 as a SoftBank/Yahoo Japan (LY Corporation) joint venture, with banking (PayPay Bank), insurance and securities offerings. In October 2025 PayPay acquired a 40% equity stake in Binance Japan, making the crypto exchange an equity-method affiliate.
Skills
About the Role
Work in PayPay's corporate planning function on medium- and long-term business plans, annual budgets, forecasts, KPI and profit-and-loss variance analysis, management financial reporting, management accounting systems, financial management process improvements, shareholder and executive reporting, and special projects.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in investment banking or research at a securities company, or financial advisory at a consulting firm
- Ability to build simulation models for business planning and communicate with department heads to finalize plans
- Financial accounting knowledge covering relationships among the three financial statements and financial forecasting models
- Experience preparing budgets and analyzing budget-to-actual variances
- Experience preparing and presenting financial reports for executives
- Experience consolidating business-unit financial reporting into company-wide reporting
- Experience designing, operating, and improving profit-and-loss and KPI management models for new businesses
- Business-level English is desirable
- IPO preparation or investor relations experience is desirable
- USCPA, MBA, or securities analyst qualification is desirable
Responsibilities
- Prepare medium- and long-term business plans and annual budgets
- Create monthly KPI and profit-and-loss forecasts
- Review actual results and analyze budget-to-actual variances
- Prepare monthly financial reports for executives
- Coordinate accounting treatment changes and irregular closing entries with management accounting requirements
- Operate and improve the management accounting system
- Design, build, operate, and improve financial management processes
- Prepare ad hoc reports for shareholders and executives
- Drive special assignments
Benefits
- Hybrid workstyle
- Super-flex work system with no core hours
- Annual paid leave of 14 days in the first year, prorated by joining month
- Personal leave of 5 days per year
- Health insurance
- Employees' pension insurance
- Employment insurance
- Workers' compensation insurance
- Defined-contribution pension plan
