Director, Finance Transformation & Optimization

We are seeking an experienced finance Director with strong communication and analytical skills to transform and drive transparency in SMBC Americas Division's financial operations. 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). The individual should be skilled in driver-based reporting, forecasting, financial data analysis, and scenario modelling to drive actionable insight. This function requires strong influencing and negotiation skills and provides the opportunity to demonstrate thought leadership to senior management.

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.

• 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, etc.
• Deliver frequent reporting at the aggregate regional level and granular business level to enable business management.
• Identify, challenge, and communicate risks and impacts to management team while considering business implications and dependencies.
• Innovate and improve existing processes around management reporting.
• Collaborate to develop forecasting processes to enable entity, business, and regional views of both local and global financial resource consumption and constraints.
• Drive critical continuous improvement initiatives, as needed, including performing gap assessment, critical analysis, setting up projects/initiatives to drive results.
• Develop constructive relationships within and outside the team, including communication of key messages and updates to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner and managing client expectations and determining actions to improve services, as necessary.

• 10+ 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.
• Drive process efficiencies through automation and delivery of data pipelines to enable self-service reporting and analytics
• Working experience on financial reporting, business analysis, data analysis and/or project management is preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously and plan/prioritize appropriately.
• Ability to lead and drive initiatives through creative thinking and pragmatism.
• Working knowledge of financial services industry (finance, banking, accounting, and business management, etc.)
• Proficient level of programming skills in Python, SQL Scripts, VBA, and/or R.
• Hands on experience on System Integration with Oracle Database, Tableau, and Power BI, etc.
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, along with ability to quickly learn new programs and applications.

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.