Corporate Planning

This corporate planning role supports company-wide management and works close to the management team. The company operates the Fanicon fan-community app, iCON Suite, RIPPLY, iCON CAST, and online marketing consulting services, following businesses in B2B influencer marketing and B2C fan communities.

Initial responsibilities include monthly budget-versus-actual analysis, identifying variance factors, preparing annual budgets, and updating forecasts. The role also prepares materials for management meetings and board meetings and aligns numerical information with business divisions. Depending on aptitude and preference, responsibilities may expand into finance or management control.

Additional work may include assisting with financial results summaries and investor-relations materials, researching M&A candidates, designing KPIs, improving business processes, and operating internal controls.

Corporate-planning experience itself is not required. The posting targets candidates with experience in planning work or practical work involving business figures, including sales planning, business planning, marketing, or business promotion involving numerical management. The required-conditions section lists experience in budget-versus-actual management, management accounting, or corporate planning for at least two years; sales planning or business planning for at least two years; data analysis, BI construction, or business-system operations improvement for at least two years; practical work at an audit firm, securities company, bank, or trust bank for at least two years; or at least three years as the main person responsible for monthly and annual accounting closes. Strong alignment with THECOO DNA is also listed as a requirement.

Preferred qualifications include experience at a listed company, Japanese Bookkeeping Level 2 or above, and experience using SQL or BI tools such as Tableau. Experience reading the three primary financial statements, participating in IR or M&A, operating Salesforce or other SFA/CRM systems, promoting BPR, or working with J-SOX is also welcomed.

The position is full-time and located in Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Annual compensation is approximately 5.5 to 8.0 million JPY; the stated range is a guideline and may be adjusted based on experience, previous compensation, ability, and company rules. Salary is reviewed once a year, and a financial-results bonus is available. The probationary period is six months.

Working hours use a flextime system with core hours from 11:00 to 15:00. The guideline is eight working hours per day, with average overtime of 20 to 40 hours per month. Holidays include a two-day weekend on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, annual paid leave after six months of employment with 10 days granted in the first year, bereavement leave, sick leave, marriage leave, maternity and parental leave, and nursing-care leave.

Benefits include social insurance, commuting transportation expenses, Benefit Station, full support for installation and use of a high-speed home internet line specified by the company, and support for study meetings, training participation, and book purchases. A designated smoking room is provided. The selection process consists of document screening, a first interview, a second interview followed by a personality aptitude test, a final interview, and an offer; the process may change.