Finance Data Strategy

Position Overview

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group with a 400-year history and a presence in nearly 40 countries. Headquartered in Tokyo, the Group offers a diverse range of financial services including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. It serves corporate, institutional, and municipal clients both locally and globally.

Salary: $181,000.00 - $230,000.00 per year. The specific salary will be based on individual qualifications, experience, and market considerations, and the role may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award.

This position is a subject matter expert in Regulatory Reporting Automation for Bank holding Company, Branch, Liquidity, or Broker Dealer regulatory reports. It requires providing leadership by setting direction, defining accountabilities, engaging with stakeholders across business units, and ensuring the delivery of a target operating model.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead high priority remediation and transformation programs covering organizational design, process improvement, and technology implementation.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of large-scale transformation programs by defining stakeholders, scope, timing, resource requirements, and deliverables.
• Engage with stakeholders across multiple business units and functional areas to ensure alignment on the target operating model delivery.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of Regulatory Reporting for US and foreign financial companies, including FRB reports, broker-dealer reporting, and liquidity reporting.
• Drive manual adjustment/orphan analysis by collaborating with report owners, data stewards, and source system owners.
• Understand the financial product lifecycle and F2B data lineage/data flow to remediate data gaps using tactical and strategic approaches.
• Lead Data Management activities with a focus on data definitions, sourcing strategies, and data model preferences.
• Participate in testing and quality assurance, including test planning, execution, and management.
• Monitor transformation delivery to assess outcomes and ensure completeness and sustainability.
• Promote coordination between program work-streams to align with overarching objectives.
• Partner with impacted product and process owners to inform program delivery and objectives.
• Ensure projects are accurately reported and continuously updated with timely data for senior management.
• Assist in developing project artefacts such as charters, business cases, and governance materials to support project delivery.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with business, governance, data, and IT stakeholders to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Train, supervise, and review the work of all staff under your responsibility.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of work experience including system implementation, Regulatory Reporting requirements gathering and design, data sourcing design, and operational improvement projects.
• 7+ years of regulatory reporting experience at a financial services company or in a comparable role.
• Knowledge of products such as derivatives, loans, and securitization and related booking systems like PRISM, Impact, or Horizon.
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Excellent communication and senior management relationship management skills.
• Strategic thinking with strong analytical, problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Team player with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience in financial products such as derivatives, loans, securities financing, trading assets, deposits, and cash to drive regulatory reporting data sourcing activities.
• Experience with FRB report forms and instructions (e.g., FRY-9C, CCAR 14Q, 14M, 14A, FFIEC-002, FFIEC-009, FRY-15) to build data sourcing and rule specifications.
• Experience using AXIOM to automate regulatory report filings for regulators such as FRB, FFIEC, and FINRA.
• Ability to influence beyond the immediate span of control, negotiate and resolve conflicts, and collaborate with business users, IT partners, and vendors.
• Skilled in engaging with senior management and building strong relationships with delivery partners across functions.
• Knowledge of commercial investment banking structures, regulatory frameworks, product offerings, financial operations and planning, and human capital strategy.
• Expertise in creating robust project management and governance structures to support complex transformation efforts.
• Highly developed sense of initiative, accountability, and the ability to effectively prioritize multiple tasks.
• Excellent relationship management, collaboration, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated experience in defining and implementing project/change management, governance, or reporting standards and procedures.

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid workforce model offering the opportunity to work from home as well as from an SMBC office (with the requirement to live within a reasonable commuting distance).
• Competitive benefits package, including cash compensation, incentive awards, and additional employee benefits.
• Reasonable accommodations provided during candidacy for applicants with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws.