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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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MicrosoftJapan – Frontier Industry Advisor – Financial Services Are you passionate about banking & Insurance industry transformation for the Frontier AI era? Financial Services(FSI) is undergoing a fundamental shift in how institutions grow, operate, manage risk, meet regulatory expectations, and serve customers. Banks/Insurers are moving from experimentation to enterprise-scale transformation, reshaping customer engagement, relationship management, lending, payments, deposits, treasury services, fraud and financial crime, credit and risk decisioning, compliance, operations, and core banking modernization. By applying trustworthy, secure, scalable AI, Microsoft is helping FSI reimagine their businesses from outcomes inward—using breakthrough technologies to simplify operations, improve decision quality, strengthen resilience, deepen customer trust, and unlock new sources of growth. Microsoft’s Frontier Industry Advisory team is at the heart of that innovation, working directly with banking business leaders to rewrite the playbook in light of disruption while staying grounded in the mission and business objectives of the industry. Across Japan, banks/ insurers are navigating a distinctive regulatory and market environment, alongside supervisory expectations from FSA. This role brings that regional context to how Microsoft helps banks scale trustworthy AI. As a Frontier Industry Advisor on the Asia Frontier Financial Services Industry team, you will help Microsoft’s most strategic banking/ insurance customers define and execute AI-led transformation agendas. This role is responsible for originating industry-led business opportunities and executive conversations that connect business outcomes to Microsoft cloud, data, AI, security, and partner capabilities. You will be the banking/ insurance industry subject matter expert engaging with senior business decision makers to identify, generate, and nurture transformational opportunities. You will go deep with select customers to help them move beyond isolated pilots toward governed, scalable AI adoption that delivers enterprise outcomes such as profitable growth, improved operating leverage, faster and more trusted credit decisioning, stronger fraud and financial crime controls, better customer and banker experiences, operational resilience, and regulatory confidence. You will also develop Microsoft’s frontier banking/ insurance practice through thought leadership, targeted customer engagements, and strategic planning with Microsoft’s account teams and industry leadership. A defining element of Microsoft’s Frontier Company strategy is Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)—multidisciplinary, AI-accelerated engineering teams that embed with customers to co-build and productionize AI and agent solutions. As an Industry Advisor, you are a primary originator of FDE opportunities: you identify where embedded engineering can move a bank from AI ambition and isolated pilots to production-grade outcomes, and you partner closely with FDE teams and the account team to turn industry vision into deployed business value.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ years customer-facing experience in financial services, management consulting, consultative selling, technology, or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience, - OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Health Sciences, Supply Chain, Education, Business, or related field AND 5+ years customer-facing experience in financial services, management consulting, consultative selling, technology, or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience, - OR equivalent experience. - 7+ years of experience in a consultative sales, advisory, strategy, business development, transformation, or technology leadership capacity, either directly within the Banking industry or with enterprise technology, fintech, payments, data and analytics, core banking, management consulting, systems integrator, or advisory firms serving Banking clients. Experience may include work with retail banks, commercial banks, corporate banks, investment banking groups within banks, payments organizations, lending businesses, deposits, treasury services, cash management, risk, compliance, fraud, financial crime, regulatory reporting, customer experience, branch and contact center operations, digital banking, core banking modernization, or banking operations, with a focus on driving digital transformation through cloud, data, AI, Frontier AI, automation, security, and modern platform capabilities.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 10+ years customer-facing experience in financial services, or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience, - OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related field AND 7+ years customer-facing experience in financial services, management consulting, consultative selling, technology, or industry-relevant equivalent management or technical work experience, - OR equivalent experience. - Experience working with Banking business leaders on transformation opportunities across areas such as retail banking, commercial banking, corporate banking, payments, lending, deposits, treasury services, cash management, customer onboarding, branch and contact center modernization, digital banking, credit decisioning, fraud and financial crime, risk management, compliance, regulatory reporting, data and analytics, core banking modernization, and banking operations. - Ability to engage senior business decision makers, shape business value propositions, and translate strategic banking priorities into technology-enabled transformation opportunities. - Working knowledge of cloud, data, AI, Frontier AI, automation, security, and modern application capabilities as applied to regulated banking and financial services environments. - Proven ability to work across account teams, solution teams, engineering, partners, consulting organizations, and senior customer stakeholders to shape complex transformation programs and drive execution. - Experience with Asian banking markets and familiarity with the Asian/Australian regulatory environment (e.g., FSA, Japanese insurance regulator). Fluency in both English and Japanese is needed. - Experience identifying, originating, or collaborating with forward-deployed or embedded engineering teams (e.g., Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineering / FDE motion) to co-build and scale production-grade AI and agent solutions with customers.
- Flexibility: Balance what matters—your work, your life, and your team—through trust, autonomy, and shared accountability - Growth: Stretch your skills, expand your impact, and grow with support that meets you where you are - Wellbeing: Support for your body, mind, and financial future—so you can stay energized and do your best work - Community PCS: Find your people, build your network, and feel supported every step of the way
