Date: 2024/04/01

Location: Head Office, Tokyo

Interested applicants may send their Resume with a Cover Letter, along with copies of college or university certificates, and letters of previous company’s employment (Two or more).

Position

Title – Associate / Assistant Manager
Function – Corporate Planning

Department

President’s Office

Details about the department

President’s Office directly supports the strategic functions of the President. Members of the President’s office usually are specialists in different specific areas and will be working on the specific projects assigned by the President, reporting directly to the President.

Company Description

Family-owned aircraft leasing and trading company with a specialty in general aviation (a sector that covers all of aviation apart from military and commercial airlines). ITC has an operating history of over 30 years. A well-experienced commercial director leads the company as president and CEO. The company is often perceived to be unique in the sense that the company’s internal language is predominantly English, with a multi-cultural office, where you will be working with people from Australia, Canada, the UK, Peru, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Japan. The company has customers worldwide, with a primary focus on North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Employment status

Permanent employment

Period of employment

Full-time employees: No stipulations (65 years old with retirement age system).

Probational Period

Six months

Salary range

• Depending on the experience.
• If performance is as expected a bonus equivalent to two months’ salary shall be paid twice per year in summer and in winter, hence a total of four months additional salary. Exceptional performance may be subject to an additional bonus.
• A salary review is done every six months, where fair assessment would allow salary raises and extra bonuses for those who exceed their qualitative or quantitative targets.

On-the-job training

While we are looking for a candidate with existing skills in corporate planning, intensive on-the-job training shall be provided throughout and beyond the probational period unless the candidate comes from the same industry of General Aviation. The candidate would be expected to be proactive in learning about the company and more importantly about the industry.

Recruitment background

Due to organisational expansion, we need ‘Financial Controller & Corporate Planning’ functioned personnel who may help us plan our growth and convey such growth strategy to our financier, and investors, whilst developing their own careers.

Expected joining date

As soon as possible

Role Summary

Responsible for supporting management’s business decisions by conceptualizing financial strategies, medium to long-term management strategies, and business initiatives.

• Assess the business pipeline
• Planning, progress management, and review of business plans
• Investor relations

Tasks

• Planning, progress management, and review of a single-year budget with Finance & Accounting.
• Planning, progress management, and review of a single-year budget with Finance & Accounting.
• Controller duties (Performance analysis and coordination with sales divisions).
• Visualization of sales activities through the use of internal systems.
• Preparation of IR materials (Annual report, etc.)Whilst it may seem to be a lot, the company is still small enough for one person to be able to conduct all the above and report to the CEO.

Qualification Requirements

• Experience in corporate planning or financial controller.
• Outstanding PC Skills (PowerPoint, Word, and Excel).
• Experience in public speaking.
• Accounting knowledge.
• Project Management skills that involve multiple divisions.
• Experience in dealing with different cultures.

Language

Business level in English and Native level in Japanese.

Desired Characteristics

• Curious enough to go through such intensive on-the-job training.
• A natural communicator and team player.
• Strong sense of ownership, a natural leader.
• A positive /energetic person.
• A good logical thinker and a good listener.
• Clean / well-organized / detail-oriented person.
• A person with a hobby focusing on work and life balance: work hard, play hard.

Others

The company will be flexible and open-minded to consider additional/specific terms for the right candidate.