Finance Data Strategy

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 $181,000.00 and $230,000.00. 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

This position is a subject matter expert in the Regulatory Reporting Automation for Bank holding Company, Branch, Liquidity or Broker Dealer regulatory reports. This position will provide leadership to the team by setting the direction, defining the accountabilities and assignments, articulating goals and objectives, and monitoring and evaluating work. This position requires engagement with stakeholders across multiple business units, functional areas to ensure alignment on delivery of a target operating model.

Responsibilities

• Lead high priority remediation and transformation programs that cover, among other components, organizational design, process improvement, and technology implementation.
• Manage end-to-end delivery against large scale transformation programs. Define program stakeholders, scope, timing, resource requirements and deliverables.
• Engage with stakeholders across multiple business units, functional areas to ensure alignment on delivery of a target operating model
• Deep knowledge of Regulatory Reporting for US and foreign financial companies (including but not limited to reports such as the FRB reports, knowledge of broker-dealer reporting, liquidity reporting, etc.)
• Drive the manual adjustment/orphan analysis by working with multiple report owners, data stewards and source system owners
• Understand the financial product lifecycle & F2B data lineage/data flow to remediate the data gaps using tactical and strategical approach
• Drive Data Management activities with focus on data definitions, data sourcing strategies and data model preferred
• Participate in Testing and Quality Assurance (including test planning, test execution and test management)
• Monitor delivery throughout the life of the transformation effort and assess outcomes to ensure completeness and sustainability.
• Promote coordination between program work-streams to ensure alignment and awareness of over-arching program objectives.
• Partner with impacted product and process owners to inform program delivery and objectives.
• Demonstrate a strong awareness of business stakeholder requirements and organizational context through delivery of complete, timely and sustainable transformation outcomes.
• Conduct reviews to ensure projects are added to the project reporting system and continuously updated with relevant, accurate, and timely data suitable for a senior management audience.
• Assist in developing project artefacts including project charters, business cases, governance materials, etc. to ensure effective governance and delivery of projects.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key business/governance/data governance and IT stakeholders to identify additional areas of risk and procuring their help in solving complex issues
• Train, supervise and review all staffs work under your responsibility

Qualifications and Skills

• 12+ years of work experience, including system implementation, Regulatory Reporting requirements gathering