Management Control Manager

This role is responsible for group-wide management control and corporate planning at USEN＆U-NEXT GROUP, together with team management. The group is reviewing its existing management methods, moving toward a sector-based structure and advancing the sophistication of its management control processes.

Main responsibilities include supporting annual budget preparation and the development of the medium-term management plan; managing and analyzing monthly budget-versus-actual results on a consolidated and individual-company basis; providing numerical support for performance improvement; operating the secretariat for the board of directors; coordinating work between group companies; and promoting cross-company collaboration to create synergies. The role also supports launches of newly established companies, participates in post-merger integration, and contributes proactively to transformation and management-control enhancement themes alongside recurring work.

Required qualifications are at least five years of practical experience in management control or corporate planning at an operating company; experience negotiating and coordinating with executives and stakeholders across multiple departments; experience managing members or leading projects; and basic knowledge of management accounting and financial accounting. Preferred experience includes overseeing management control or corporate planning for multiple subsidiaries at a group headquarters, working across several businesses or industries, participating in PMI or new-company launch phases, contributing to medium-term planning or business strategy, advanced PC skills, and experience designing, introducing or using BI tools.

The position is expected to join as a manager or manager candidate and may later develop toward organizational management, group-company strategic advisory or CFO-related roles. The department has 11 members, including eight men and three women, with one member working concurrently in another role.

Employment is full-time. The workplace is in Kamiosaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo. Working hours use a flextime system without core hours, with standard working time of 7 hours 30 minutes per day and a 60-minute break. Remote work may be possible depending on daily work conditions, although existing department members generally have a high office attendance ratio. Annual holidays number at least 125 days, with weekends and public holidays off. Salary is an annual amount of JPY 8,000,000 to JPY 12,000,000; one fourteenth is paid as monthly compensation and one fourteenth is paid separately in June and December. Monthly compensation includes deemed pay for 25 hours of work, except where discretionary work arrangements for a managerial supervisory position apply. Benefits include social insurance, transportation allowance, a Remote Worker allowance, qualification incentives, defined-contribution pension, employee shareholding, health examinations and various service and leisure benefits.