Compliance Business Program Manager

 SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $137,000.00 and $200,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

The candidate will work with SMBC’s Regulatory Change Management (RCM) Team to support the Business Program Oversight Office (BPO) for Regulatory Change Management (RCM) and Risk Assessments (RA) areas.

The role works with departments across SMBC’s Americas Division to manage BPO matters. This includes, but is not limited to, the development and ongoing maintenance of an overarching book of work (BOW), execution roadmap, program plans, program management reporting and workstream(s) status reports. The role also requires facilitating the implementation of a consistent target operating model using strong program governance and reporting, experience with managing a portfolio of related projects, effective communication and liaising with relevant stakeholders, technology and vendor partners to drive organizational goals and successful execution of the agreed upon BOW and roadmap. Additionally, the role will support production of status, metrics, and management information necessary for appropriate oversight, internal engagement, and effective program execution. The role will also support the onboarding of the respective areas into the  Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform. Collaborative, organized and coordinated approach with all related work streams and business lines is required to drive the organizational change.

Role Objectives

The job responsibilities are described herein:

• Responsible for efficiently and effectively executing BPO agenda with accountable stakeholders, including handling day-to-day matters.
• Maintains the organizations BOW comprising strategic and business as usual (BAU) activities including BOW prioritization, scope of work finalization and deliverables management to achieve organizational goals.
• Coordinate comprehensive range of program management matters with responsibility for efficiently and effectively executing the change program with accountable stakeholders, including handling day-to-day matters   
• Support the organization’s efforts to adopt NextGen Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) tools for certain cross-enterprise compliance program activities.
• Demonstrate awareness and understanding of stakeholder business requirements and organizational context throughout project execution                                
• Monitor delivery throughout the life of the project effort and assess outcomes to ensure completeness and sustainability
• Handle coordination between program workstreams to ensure alignment and awareness of over-arching program objectives.
• Partner with impacted product and project owners to develop program objectives and track expected outcomes.
• Assist in developing project artifacts including project charters, business cases, governance materials to ensure effective project governance and delivery.                   
• Schedules and attends meetings with key stakeholders and vendors to ensure program needs are addressed; documents the content of meetings and communicates to senior management and relevant parties