Vice President, Finance Transformation & Optimization

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 Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, 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 $117,000.00 and $159,000.00. 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 provides support to senior management and other business stakeholders for the FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) Team in Finance and Strategic Planning Department, Americas Division (FSPDAD), and under supervision of our Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
 
Scope of responsibility includes, but not limited to: process automation, system integration, architecture design, and automation for financial analysis and planning purposes. This role also focuses on providing both business and technical support through measuring, evaluating, and improving financial data analysis, planning, and forecasting processes, managing reporting of our financial results, analyzing key business drivers, and evaluating strategic initiatives. This role will contribute to major areas of the FP&A Team, which includes financial resource optimization, management and regulatory reporting, and coordination with various stakeholders of the organization from Head Office to our bank’s back office, middle office, and front office.

Role Objectives

•    Provide system integration solution for management and regulatory reporting. 
•    Architect and develop a strategic architecture framework for enhancing and streamlining our daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting processes.
•    Establish data and process architecture to support end to end reporting processes and key points of data integration across management reporting, financial reporting, and client reporting.
•    Automate current management reporting through R, Python, VBA or PowerBi.
•    Define and establish processes and governance standards to ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy.
•    Identify and leverage regulatory reporting platform to build more integrated financial resource management reporting, including ROE, NIM, PPNR, etc.
•    Deliver frequent reporting at the aggregate regional level and granular business level to enable business management.
•    Collaborate to develop forecasting processes to enable entity, business, and regional views of both local and global financial resource consumption and constraints.

Qualifications and Skills

•    5+ years of working experience in financial industry in Finance, Risk, or Technology departments. 
•    Strong conceptual knowledge of Business Intelligence, data and process architecture to support end to end reporting processes and key points of data integration across management reporting, financial reporting, and client reporting.
•    Strong organizational, oral, and written communication skills, with ability to communicate effectively with all levels of support and business partners.
•    Working experience on financial reporting, business analysis, data analysis and/or project management is preferred.
•    Working knowledge of financial services industry (finance, banking, accounting, and business management, etc.)
•    Drive process efficiencies through automation and delivery of data pipelines to enable self-service reporting and analytics
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