If he leaves he’ll be the second major executive from Nissan to depart in less than two years. Times are extremely tough at Nissan these days. CEO Makoto Uchida recently declared that the company is in “emergency mode.

Nissan Motor's CFO Stephen Ma is set to step down, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter, weeks after the Japanese automaker issued a profit warning and announced plans to cut thousands of jobs globally.

Citing a singificant reduction in income and profitability, the manufacturer said it will cut production capacity by 20 per cent and reduce its global workforce by 9000 employees. A statement released by the company said that “facing a severe situation,

Ma joined Nissan in 1996 in North America and worked in financial roles in China and Japan before being promoted to CFO in December of 2019