Lieux
- Posting Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ville/Villes
Tokyo
Horaires de Travail
Temps plein
Arrangement de Travail
Hybride
Déplacement requis
10%
Aide à la réinstallation possible
Oui
Date d'envoi
03-Mar-2026
ID de l'emploi
16014
Description et exigences
Responsibilities:
The Head of Cash Management and Banking Team is accountable for the effective management of liquidity, cash operations, and banking relationships for the life insurance entity. The role ensures strong liquidity governance, regulatory compliance, and efficient deployment of cash resources, while supporting enterprise financial stability and strategic objectives.
1. Liquidity & Cash Flow Management
- Oversee daily liquidity operations to ensure timely settlement of claims, policyholder obligations, investments, and operating expenses. Maintain appropriate liquidity buffers in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal risk appetite.
- Optimize returns on working capital across currencies within approved risk parameters.
2. Cash Flow Forecasting & Planning
- Lead short-term and long-term cash flow forecasting. Monitor liquidity trends and risks and provide recommendations to senior management.
3. Banking & Financial Institution Relationship Management
- Manage relationships with domestic and international banking partners. Oversee bank account structures, mandates, and fee management.
4. Treasury Operations and Investments
- Oversee deployment of surplus liquidity into short-term investments in coordination with Investment teams.
5. Governance and Compliance
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and internal control frameworks, including SOX.
6. Payments and Collections
- Oversee premium collections, claims payments, vendor payments, and intercompany settlements.
7. Systems and Process Improvement
- Provide oversight for treasury management systems and drive automation initiatives.
9. Reporting and Communication
- Deliver accurate liquidity reporting to senior management and regulators
10. People Leadership
- Lead and develop the Cash Management team and collaborate across Finance, Investments, Risk, and Operations.
Experience:
- 10–15 years of progressive experience in treasury or finance roles within a life insurance company or major financial institution
Skills:
- Strong capabilities in risk assessment, liquidity analysis, and financial forecasting, relevant to cash adequacy evaluation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence at executive and cross‑functional levels.
- Excellent communication skills—able to simplify complex financial matters for non‑technical stakeholders.
- Strong project management capability, with experience optimizing processes and leading change initiatives.
- High degree of commercial literacy and strategic thinking, with ability to link capital strategy to enterprise value.
Preferable:
- Experience within global financial institutions or life insurers is strongly preferred. Strong technical experience in insurance, including understanding of capital regimes, regulatory frameworks, and financial reporting (e.g., ESR/SMR, economic capital, statutory accounting) is highly valued.
- Ability to navigate regulatory environments and capital rules across jurisdictions (helpful in multinational groups).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related quantitative disciplines.
Language:
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English.
Benefits We Offer
MetLife Japan offers a comprehensive benefits package that promotes work-life balance and employee wellbeing. Employees can take advantage of flex time policy and a generous time-off policy, national holidays, annual paid leave, special consecutive leave, and refreshment leave. We also provide full social insurance coverage, a commuting expense reimbursement, group insurance, and discounts on travel and English language lessons. To support work flexibility, employees also have hybrid work options, shortened working hours for parents with children in third grade or below, and a casual dress code.
About MetLife
MetLife Inc., through its subsidiaries and affiliates (MetLife), is one of the world’s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help individual and institutional customers build a more confident future. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 markets globally and holds leading positions in the United States, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
MetLife Japan began operations in February 1973 as Japan’s first foreign-owned life insurance company. Our purpose, “Always with you, building a more confident future,” encapsulates our strong commitment to leveraging our global network and best practices worldwide to stand with our customers and build trust with our communities.