Business Analyst (Japanese-Speaking)
Description
The role is based in Japan, Tokyo and requires working from the client's site.
Why Ness
We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.
You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.
You’ll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to trainings and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities and attractive compensation.
Requirements and responsibilities
This role owns business analysis and requirements definition for a major platform modernization program for a Japanese customer.
The Business Analyst is customer-side facing, embedded in Japan, and acts as the voice of the business—translating customer needs into clear, structured, testable requirements for the delivery
organization.
What You’ll Do
- Clear, complete, and unambiguous business requirements
- High-quality user stories with acceptance criteria
- Minimal rework due to misunderstood requirements
- Smooth UAT and business sign-off
- Strong trust relationship with Japanese stakeholders
- Business Analysis & Requirements
- Elicit and document business requirements directly from customer stakeholders· Create epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Maintain bilingual requirements documentation (Japanese/English)
- Clarify business rules, edge cases, and constraints
- Stakeholder Engagement (Japan-Based)
- Act as primary interface with customer business and IT stakeholders
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and walkthroughs in Japanese
- Support consensus building and decision alignment
- Manage requirement clarification cycles
- Requirements Lifecycle & UAT
- Maintain traceability from requirements → development → testing → acceptance
- Support UAT planning and execution
- Validate delivered functionality against business intent
- Support sign-off and acceptance documentation
- Collaboration with Delivery
- Hand over clean, implementation-ready requirements to the delivery team
- Respond to clarification questions during development
- Support change impact analysis when scope evolves
- Work closely with the Technical Project Manager (but does not manage delivery)
What You’ll Bring
- Native or fluent Japanese (JLPT N1 preferred)
- Business-level English (B2+)
- 5–8+ year's experience as Business Analyst· Strong experience in enterprise software projects
- Excellent written documentation skills (Japanese & English)
Not checking every single requirement?
If this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.
Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.
At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity.