Finance Supervisor

This role supports the FP&A processes of Olympus’s global Gastrointestinal Solutions Division, a division with approximately $4.5 billion in revenue. The position serves as a partner to the global GIS Finance team and helps ensure that FP&A activities are completed on time and comprehensively.

Responsibilities include leading strategic planning and forecasting, performance management, reporting and ad hoc financial analysis. The role supports global actuals, forecasting and budgeting processes that provide financial and operational transparency to GIS General Managers, Division Heads and Strategy Team partners. It also supports rolling monthly, quarterly and annual budget and forecast cycles for GIS business-unit P&Ls in partnership with global and cross-functional finance teams.

The position tracks and reports key success factors and KPIs, helps develop long-term global financial plans based on business and portfolio drivers, and supports the expansion of financial control and management to working capital. It prepares presentations for the Board of Directors, Global Executive Committee and GIS Executive Committee, linking financial information with strategic priorities. The role also helps establish infrastructure for diagnosing progress against financial objectives and provides management with feedback on performance against plan.

The role collaborates with global finance leadership to identify and implement financial practices, methodologies and tools. It includes responsibility for career coaching, growth and personal development of direct and indirect reports, as well as other related duties. The position works with GIS business units, functions and regions across time zones and cultures and provides financial data and analytics support to global GIS leadership.

A bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required. An MBA or CPA is preferred. Candidates must have business-level fluency in both English and Japanese and more than five years of experience in financial management and strategy, advanced accounting and financial analysis, and project management. Experience with global organizations, preferably in the MedTech industry, and financial systems is preferred. Experience with SAP and/or Hyperion is also preferred.

Applicants need strong financial management competence, business acumen, communication and influencing skills, PC skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Word, the ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities in a fast-paced environment, and experience leading and developing global teams. Experience implementing and influencing process or organizational change, collaborating across functions, and working with stakeholders at all organizational levels is required. Initiative, emotional intelligence, ownership, adaptability and willingness to learn are also valued competencies.

Telework may be available depending on the circumstances. The location is Olympus’s Hachioji headquarters in Tokyo, with possible work at satellite offices. The employment location may change within the company’s defined work area.

Flextime and telework may be available under applicable conditions.