Bilingual Investment Analyst

We firmly believe that our employees drive the success of the company! With success in mind as the ultimate goal, we strive to create and provide an environment that offers challenging, stimulating and financially rewarding opportunities. We are looking for The Right One to join our team!

What's In It For You?

• Competitive Salary with Bonus Opportunities

• Paid Time Off

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits (Low Premiums!)

• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts

• 14 Paid Company Holidays

• 401(k) with Company Contribution

• Educational Tuition Reimbursement

Summary

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Investment Analyst is a key member of a small team of professionals in Toyota Tsusho America’s Corporate Development and Investment group. The individual in this role will help drive growth through investment, M&A, and other strategic initiatives. A thorough understanding of our diverse businesses will be used to collaborate with existing divisions on existing market growth strategies. The analyst will evaluate new investment projects with business divisions for management approval and will support business units and subsidiaries even after the approval by monitoring financial activities of existing investment. The analyst will also serve as a liaison between TAI and its parent company in Japan.

• Conduct feasibility analysis on important investment projects of all group companies from a financial / strategic standpoint.
• Evaluate the financial health of company by analyze Income statement, Balance sheet and Cah Flow statement.
• Build strong relationships with key corporate functions, such as finance, accounting, and legal departments.
• Serve as a liaison between TAI and counter departments in a parent company in Japan.
• Communicate with the company’s management to support their business decision making processes.
• Coordinate investment decisions in accordance with Toyota Tsusho group’s policy by reviewing all investment proposals for management approval.
• Support subsidiaries’ start up activities, such as guiding them to establish proper Control Process and Policy.
• Communicate with business divisions to provide suggestions, review notes and guide them to the correct approval process.
• Support and understand deal execution activities, including due diligence, financial modeling, and valuation analysis, and assist cross-functional deal teams.
• Some business travel required.

 SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsibilities of supervisor expected.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting.
• Minimum of 6-10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, business valuation, and budget control.
• Experience with financial modeling.
• Candidate with strong analytical abilities.
• Requires critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong initiative and ability to manage multiple projects.
• Ability to work well with others in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Willingness to trip throughout US, Canada, and Mexico
• Experience in the automotive industry will be helpful.
• Big 4 experience is a plus but not required.
• Candidate who has or is working toward passing CMA or CFA exam.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (emphasis on Excel & PowerPoint)

Ability to utilize Excel functions, such as VLOOKUP, Power Query, and Macro is necessary.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Business English writing/communication skills are required.
• Fluency in speaking, reading, and writing in Japanese.

Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer! It is the policy and commitment of the company to maintain a work environment that provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all its employees and applicants. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital/domestic partner status, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other applicable lawfully protected basis. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

We seek to employ individuals qualified for a position by virtue of job-related educational standards, training, experience, and personal qualifications.