Financial Analyst

About ElectroRoute Japan

ElectroRoute Japan is a renewables focused, energy trading and services company based in Tokyo Japan and a subsidiary of the Japanese trading house, Mitsubishi Corporation.  The company has grown rapidly from starting in 2019 to now employing over 25 professionals, a mix of European and Japanese nationals, in our offices in Marunouchi, Tokyo.

ElectroRoute Japan intelligently captures the value in the renewable value chain, from generation, to trading, to customers. This is achieved by leveraging the benefits of new technologies, our advanced methodologies, and the application of unrivalled expertise to develop innovative energy trading and renewable risk management solutions. These mitigate the factors which can impede clean energy investment and help make net zero a reality for our customers.

Electroroute Japan builds on the expertise of Electroroute Europe with an expert trading team which operates 24x7 in Ireland, the UK, across Continental Europe and in Japan; utilising our bespoke trading platform, ElectroRoute CORE, to provide essential trading services to wind farms, solar farms, and batteries.

Our ambitious growth plans will see us increasing the volume and variety of our activities over the coming years, requiring growth in the strength and depth of our team to help us make net zero a reality.

The Position

Financial Analyst: Finance team is responsible for preparing daily PL and monthly management pack to support decision making for management team. Due to our business expansion and in-housing accounting function form outsourcing company, the position is newly created and reports to Head of Finance and Sr. Finance Manager.

The Role

• Support Sr. manager to ensure daily transactions are aligned with company policies and procedures.
• Support Sr. manager to prepare the financial models (e.g. Discounted Cash Flow, Valuation for Derivatives).
• Responsible for data maintenance for daily PL and monthly invoice.
• Prepare Know Your Counterparties (KYC) documents for credit approval.
• Responsible for daily transaction booking into Oracle, NetSuite accurately and timely manner.
• Prepare BS reconciliations for bank, AP/AR and other BS accounts.
• Support Head of Finance to prepare monthly management reports and statutory financial statements.
• Support internal and external audit.

Role Requirements

• 3+ years of Finance experience
• Understanding of IFRS and JGAAP
• Team spirit
• Self-motivated
• Business level of English
• Advanced Excel skill

Welcome skills: In addition, the following would be an advantage

• Having interest in Trading (Any product is possible. E.g. Equity, Bonds, Commodities)

• Having interest in Data Analysis using coding (No-Code or Low-Code is also welcome. E.g. Power Query, Power BI. We do not require to use hard languages such as C, JAVA, Python and no experience in coding is needed.)

• Worked with Oracle NetSuite

• Knowledge for Financial Instruments (Futures/Forward/Options)

Reporting to

Head of Finance and Sr. Finance Manager

Location

Tokyo, Japan

Employment contract period

Permanent

Others

• hybrid work(3days at office/2days WFH)
• flexibility around work style
• thriving industry

Diversity & Inclusion

ElectroRoute Japan is an equal opportunity employer. We aim to create value through diversity and inclusion. We seek to attract candidates to reflect the diverse nature of our society. Diversity and inclusion allow the ElectroRoute Japan team to be curious, creative, and promote positive change. We understand the many demands on all our employees, and we adopt flexible working arrangements where possible. Working at ElectroRoute Japan offers something special for everyone.