Jobs in Japan
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Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
Goldman SachsWe’re looking for a professional individual who wants to apply their financial market knowledge and further develop their understanding of a growing sector of the financial markets at the heart of regulatory reform. With the continued high rate of change in the regulatory reporting space, Regulatory Operations professionals have the platform to significantly impact their environment and the wider business. The Asia Regulatory Transaction Reporting team is looking for an experienced professional to lead transaction reporting across Japan and other Asia jurisdictions. In this role, you will work closely with Business, Compliance, Legal, Engineering, and Operations partners to solve complex problems and deliver practical, well-controlled solutions. Operations play a central role in supporting the firm’s businesses, helping teams execute effectively while maintaining strong risk management, controls, and asset protection. Asia Regulatory Transaction Reporting sits at the intersection of regulation, data, products, and technology, with responsibility for reporting obligations across multiple jurisdictions, regulators, exchanges, and asset classes supporting Global Banking and Markets trading activity. As the function continues to evolve, the team is advancing its transformation agenda through greater use of data, automation, and emerging AI capabilities to enhance scalability, controls, and operational effectiveness. Responsibilities include preparing to be exposed to various products under the 50+ reports the team covers by interacting with middle office teams, sales, other internal clients, and external regulators to meet regulatory requirements; evaluating and escalating risk items to protect the firm; ensuring manual processes are done with care and enhancing processes to eliminate manual work where possible; partnering with Technology to review and improve scalability and processes strategically and tactically; engaging in the testing and implementation of rule changes that impact reporting processes; developing a deeper understanding of complex transactions and working with business partners to assess market changes and support new business; and contributing to regulatory change, new business initiatives, system enhancements, issue remediation, and control improvements.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience - Minimum 5 years of experience in the financial industry, ideally including regulatory reporting, operations, compliance, or related control functions - Experience working with financial products, data, operating processes, regulatory requirements, or change initiatives - Highly proficient in written and spoken Japanese
- Familiarity with transaction reporting requirements or regulatory frameworks across Asia - Experience engaging with regulators, exchanges, or industry working groups - Experience contributing to regulatory, operational, or technology change initiatives from requirements through implementation - Interest in trade flows, reporting logic, system architecture, with a passion for leveraging data, automation, low-code, and emerging AI capabilities to accelerate the team's transformation journey and drive improvements in reporting processes and controls
- Medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident, and business travel accident insurance - Competitive vacation policies, generous vacation entitlements, and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year - Retirement savings and planning support, financial support for higher education, and benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected - Live financial education and content on a variety of topics - Medical advocacy, counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program, Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance, and a Workplace Ergonomics Program - On-site health centers in certain offices - On-site fitness centers in some offices and reimbursement for eligible employees' fitness club membership or activity fees up to a pre-approved amount - On-site child care centers, emergency back-up care, mother and baby rooms, homework rooms, advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources, transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave, and adoption, surrogacy, egg donation, and egg retrieval stipends
