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 $196,000.00. 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 Vice President is a member of JRIA's Business Application Support Team supporting the SMBC Leasing and Finance business. They will perform business analysis, application development, support Leasing software and reporting to ensures Leasing business systems comply and integrate successfully with the wider systems and policies within SMBC.

This position is part of the Technology Team which is responsible for IT development, project leadership, application support, and business analysis.

This is a global role that involves working closely with business and IT teams in the US and UK.

Works along with the Leasing Business to identify and understand requirements

Supports and develops internal software, databases, and reports to meet the needs of the business.

Supports various business and regulatory reporting requirements.

Develops software systems, automates processes, and develops operational and financial reporting capabilities including development of applications and interfaces with SMBC systems, enhanced reporting capabilities, or functional support for new markets to meet support efficient business operation and growth.

Develops process flow diagrams and analysis documents and create test plans and test cases.

Ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing maintaining complex SQL databases ensuing optimal performance and data Integrity.

Collaborate with data-analysts, business intelligence teams and other stake holders to deliver data-driven solutions that support business solutions.

Role Objectives

• Works with the various IT teams to plan and implement production deployment of all software, reporting and configuration changes.

• Provides high quality systems support to operations and finance teams for all software and reports developed by the Systems team to ensure efficient and accurate usage by the business users and ensures documentation is clear and current.

• Assists the Leasing Finance back-office team in making configuration changes to LF’s core lease/loan accounting system.

• Adheres to project plans and assumes responsibility for delivering projects on time and on budget.

• Develops and supports tools to maintain and improve data quality within Leasing Finance systems and ensure any downstream data feeds and processes are correct.

• Responds in a timely manner to requests and queries from the wider Bank around data quality issues with any downstream data feeds and to ad-hoc and routine report requests by the LF team.

• Partner with business team leads to gain insight into user needs and develop a plan to improve the utility of implemented applications.

• Advise the development team of business unit needs and advise on the creation of a roadmap for new processes and features.

• Engage with key application users to study key business processes and advise on building procedures to best utilize application features.

• Conduct periodic meetings of support staff to discuss incident patterns and identify new policies and procedures to improve utility or reliability of applications.

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to write and communicate requirements to business and technology partners

• Be a self-starter

• Ability to influence people outside the immediate span of controls

• Exhibit mastery with support and reporting tools, incident management and issue analysis to improve support procedures and methods.

• Display comprehensive knowledge of application back-end query tools and scripting languages to support monitoring and proactive issue identification.

• Possess required knowledge of application development languages to enable real-time debugging of application issues and troubleshooting of code.

• Show ability to provide counsel to business units in planning and implementation of business applications.

Qualifications and Skills

• Able to gather and analyze business requirements and requests and translate them into efficient, accurate and robust software solutions.

• Familiarity with Data Warehouse concepts and able to write and maintain complex SQL queries.

• Excellent software development skills and knowledge of Data modeling techniques and experience with Scripting languages.

• Strong Experience in STAR Schema, Facts and Dimensions tables.

• Strong Experience in ETL Process Development, Maintenance and Optimization

• Implement Data Governance best practices and ensure the data quality and compliance

• Strong experience in Regulatory Reporting in Finance Domain

• Knowledge of Azure Fundamentals and cloud based data warehousing platforms (e.g AWS Redshift, Azure SQL datawarehouse)

• Ability to work on numerous projects simultaneously, priorities appropriately and communicate progress to management and other stakeholders.

• Understand basic accounting principles and understanding of data governance and data quality principles.

• Excellent numerical and financial skills and good verbal and written communication skills

• Knowledge of Lending and Leasing is required.

Additional Requirements

D&I Commitment

Responsible for fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, holding leaders accountable for creating an inclusive environment through awareness and practice of equity in recruiting, developing, and promoting diverse talent.

SMBC’s employees participate in a hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.