Overview
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”) Group is a Japanese multinational banking and financial services institution headquartered in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The group operates in retail, corporate, and investment banking segment worldwide. SMBC is a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (“SMFG”), a Tokyo-based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management. SMBC Americas Division, with more than 3,000 employees, oversees operations in the US, Canada, Mexico, and South America.
The firm is going through a multi-year Regulatory Reporting Transformation program and this position reports into the Director of Change Management Department. You will work with other teams within the Data and Technology Departments to carry out the Project Management activities to support regulatory reporting automation program within FAD Controllers to ensure that project plan is developed and up to date, implement project management practices, project status, communicating/monitoring Risk and issues to management and other stakeholders. Automation Team’s main objective is to provide assurances to the CFO Function that manual reporting process due to internal control deficiencies, misinterpretations and data issues that could impact regulatory reporting are minimized.
The Project Manager defines, develops, budgets, implements, documents, and manages the bank’s strategic, important and/or cross-functional enterprise-wide technology projects. The role focuses on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors, stakeholders, etc. Spends significant time on project management tasks, coordination, managing schedules, risks and issues As assigned, leads, or assists in the planning, implementation, and introduction of projects for new systems and technologies.
The anticipated salary range for this role is between $122,000 and $170,000. 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.
Responsibilities
- Leads planning, execution and/or implementation of projects through all phases, tasks, and timelines.
- Facilitates the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, funding, and resource requirements.
- Completes projects or assigned tasks in accordance with defined project management methodology.
- Manages Project Budget & Resource allocation and utilization.
- Manages clients/stakeholders (including subject matter experts from different Technical teams); determines needs, facilitates communication, and implements changes, where applicable.
- Monitors project progress and provides regular status updates to management.
- Manages vendors, negotiates/defines initial contracts, resolves issues, and provides ongoing communication, tracks deliverables.
- Participates, where necessary, in requirements gathering/elicitation, design and/or testing phases.
- Resolves or assists in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas; implements changes where applicable.
- Submits CR’s (Change Requests) and SML’s (System Maintenance Logs) as part of the change management process.
- Ensures project closure activities are completed, including completion of all tasks, final updates to Schedule, closure of all risks/issues and archival of all documentation.
- Conduct Process Quality Reviews
Qualifications
- Formal project management expertise and knowledge of project management methodology/SDLC/PLC processes in IT financial services environments.
- Experience in managing complex IT processes and projects across multiple business and technical areas
- Demonstrated working knowledge of end-to-end IT processes
- Ability to influence people outside the immediate span of control, negotiate and resolve conflicts, and work with business users, IT partners and vendors
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to articulate concepts and ideas to diverse audiences
- Able to work well autonomously and be a complete self-starter
- Experience working with technology vendors to implement application, infrastructure, or security product solutions
- 7 to 12 years of specialized experience in Financial Services
- Required BA/BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance or Management Information System concentration is preferred
- Licenses /Certifications – PMI certification or the equivalent is advantageous
- Language Skills: Business fluency in English
- Software Systems / Programming Languages: MS Office, MS Visio, Power BI, MS Project, Enterprise Resource Management tools, CMMI/ITIL/COBIT is preferred; Agile Methodology / Framework