Finance teams in Japan face a familiar challenge: managing complex group structures across fragmented systems, manual spreadsheets, and localized tools that were never built for scale. Lucanet is here to change that. We are officially expanding into Japan – bringing our intelligent CFO Solution Platform to one of the world's most sophisticated corporate markets and significantly strengthening our Asia-Pacific footprint alongside our operations in Singapore and China.
The shift toward modern finance in Japan
Japan represents a massive market of internationally active, multi-entity businesses. However, many finance teams here still rely on heavily localized tools, fragmented system landscapes, and manual spreadsheets to manage their consolidation and reporting processes.
As these organizations seek to modernize, there is a rapidly growing demand for integrated technologies that offer true transparency and scalability across group structures. Finance professionals need a single source of truth for their financial data, eliminating the risks associated with disconnected databases and manual data entry.
Financial operations with intelligence built in
Lucanet answers this market need with our CFO Solution Platform. Purpose-built for finance teams, our platform combines Consolidation and Financial Planning and Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) into a single, multilingual cloud environment.
By bringing this technology to Japan, we empower local and multinational finance teams to achieve "reporting in one click" across all entities. Our platform delivers a seamless, robust experience built on key principles:
- Out-of-the-box functionality: You get started with ready-to-use solutions from day one, avoiding complex, drawn-out customizations.
- Fast time to value: Fast and easy implementation helps you quickly integrate, scale, and optimize operations.
- Intelligent automation: Automated workflows and data validation allow your teams to focus on strategic growth.
- Global compliance and trust: The platform fully supports both Japanese GAAP and international accounting standards such as IFRS, simplifying complex regulatory requirements within a highly secure cloud infrastructure.
- Seamless integration: Through hundreds of ETL adapters, the platform complements your existing ERP and accounting software environments.
Local expertise meets global scalability
“We are looking forward to launching Lucanet in Japan. By combining a fully localized platform with a native team and Lucanet’s deep financial expertise, we’re committed to being a long‑term, trusted partner for Japanese CFOs and their teams”, said Makoto Yabushita, Lucanet’s Country Manager for Japan. "Our platform is designed to integrate seamlessly into existing finance environments while supporting both Japanese and international regulatory and compliance requirements. By streamlining manual processes, improving data consistency, and enhancing financial transparency, Lucanet supports finance teams in playing a more strategic role in business management and decision making. We are committed to helping companies in Japan address increasingly complex business challenges and achieve sustainable growth as a trusted partner.”
Makoto Yabushita brings more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market leadership. With a proven track record in building local market presence and developing high-performing sales and customer engagement initiatives across the Japanese business landscape, he is ideally positioned to lead Lucanet's growth in the region. Under his guidance, we are building a dedicated local team spanning pre-sales, post-sales, marketing, and accounting functions. We are also collaborating closely with leading consulting and audit firms across the Japanese finance ecosystem.
“Japan is an exciting next step in our global expansion journey,” said Elias Apel, Lucanet’s CEO. “This step is our response to an increasing demand for standardized and easy to use consolidation and planning solutions. We already serve customers in Japan and together with our local partners, we are now even more committed to bring cloud and AI innovation to the office of the CFO in Japan.”
Leading the future of finance
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