Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor. Execute day-to-day institutional client coverage across JPY interest rate products, including Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs), JPY interest rate swaps, swaptions, and cross-currency products. Support senior sales professionals in maintaining and expanding relationships with domestic and international institutional investors (e.g., life/non-life insurance companies, banks and asset managers). Collaborate closely with trading, structuring, and macroeconomic research teams to formulate and pitch actionable market color, trade ideas, and relative value analyses to clients. Handle real-time pricing requests (RFQ), order execution, trade booking, and post-trade coordination, ensuring absolute precision and minimal operational risk. Assist in client onboarding, account maintenance, and client analytics (e.g., tracking trade stats, hit rates, and share of wallet). Act as a reliable bridge between domestic clients and global desks to facilitate cross-border rates transactions across time zones. Comply strictly with all applicable internal compliance rules, risk protocols, and external regulatory requirements.
- 1–5 years of relevant experience in financial markets (Analyst to junior Associate level), preferably in Fixed Income sales, trading, structuring, or trade support/middle office. - Strong passion for macroeconomics, central bank monetary policy (BOJ, Fed, ECB), and interest rate dynamics. - Excellent quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Bloomberg Terminal. - High resilience, detail-oriented mindset, and proven ability to multi-task and execute under pressure in a fast-paced environment. - Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a client-focused, collaborative approach. - Native Japanese proficiency
- We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance. - We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year. - We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities. - We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices. - To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount). - We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
