AVP, Project Manager / Business Analyst (Loans & Capital Markets Systems) (Singapore)

Job description

Headquartered in Tokyo, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a leading global financial institution and a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group). Built upon our rich Japanese heritage since 1876, we put our customers first and provide seamless access to, from and within the Asia Pacific region. SMBC is one of the largest Japanese banks by assets and maintain strong credit ratings across our global integrated network. We work closely as one SMBC Group to offer personal, corporate and investment banking services to meet the needs of our customers. With sustainability embedded within our strategy and operations, we are committed to creating a society in which today’s generation can enjoy economic prosperity and well-being, and pass it on to future generations. Job Responsibilities Work with Program lead to manage implementation of Agency Loans related projects, ensuring delivery within time, budget, and specifications, managing the end-to-end execution, till project closure. Engage business users, perform business analysis of business requests relating to project, understand and document user requirements, engage with technology teams to formulate solutions to address busines pain points. Support in creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments, budgets and IT Value (ROI, IRR) discussions. Conduct feasibility studies and confirm resulting business unit decisions. Collaborate with Product Owners or Transformation teams to understand business goals, needs or pain points and initiate necessary projects to address these. Perform technology solutioning, collaborate with business analysts to co-create business requirements to define scope of projects; collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to outline IT solution. Support L1 and L2 teams to manage production applications owned by team. Job Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology; Finance & Banking or commerce with min 6 years working experience. Good experience in, or knowledge of syndicated loans, loan origination, loans related products and operations. Good technical knowledge with experience in banking business process re-engineering and solution design. Experience in Investment or Corporate Banking Domains and regional (Asia Pacific) preferred. Good experience with Asia Pacific banking regulations and rules including cloud guidelines, third party risk management and regulatory compliance requirements. Good experience or understanding of solution architecture, design patterns and best practices in business-technology solutioning. Good experience in stakeholder management, strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship building skills and ability to achieve results with these stakeholders in a collaborative manner. Excellent communication skills and strong ability to steer / influence positive outcome effectively. Good experience managing external partners and vendors; able to lead cross-workstream(s) and off-shore vendor delivery team(s). Professional certification, such as ITIL/ITSM, PMP would be an advantage. Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills. Work location: One@ChangiCity