Director, Strategy and Business Management

**Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?**

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**Purpose of the Job**

This position sits within the Regional Business Development Department ("RBDD”) based in Singapore in the Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Asia Pacific. We are looking for a highly motivated personnel with strong leadership to be able to support Head of Department as their deputy. The role requires supporting the business across 11 countries within APAC.
- Implementing and penetrating GCIB APAC direction/strategy and gathering voices/information from the branches to further improve regional management framework/structure
- Planning and implementing initiatives to penetrating regional strategy to each transaction and customer relationship
- Gather, synthesize, and creatively analyze data to provide insights, identify issues and arrive at recommendations
- Look to increase governance framework in APAC for both business promotion and 1st line of defense
- Develop Executive-level materials for key meetings
- Lead engagement with the external vendors to bring in the best-in-class marketing tools into GCIB APAC business
- Collaborate with GCIB Planning Division in the headquarter in Tokyo to feed in the bank-wide updated policies as well as business related procedural changes into APAC region
- Support division and department to drive improvement in the process and operational efficiency
- Lead and work cohesively with the team. Adaptable to work with various departments and people and influence stakeholders
- Promote MUFG and team culture, and foster team collaboration

**Job requirements**
- Degree qualified
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in banking and financial industry
- Minimum 7 years’ experience of business / credit planning/strategy in corporate banking
- Demonstrate strategic planning and business management with independent and strong problem-solving skills
- Skills to build up framework and generating ideas for initiatives for business promotion
- Strong analytical and presentation skills with the ability to use Excel and PPT
- Program management experience with financial background
- Assimilates broad-ranging information quickly and able to distil into key points
- Ability to synthesize information to formulate a “story” for Senior Management
- Exceptional analytical skills to understand a diverse array of programs and complex end-to-end workflowsBusiness proficiency in written, reading and spoken Japanese as role requires liaising with Tokyo HQ on corporate matters is a plus but not mandatory.
- High level of resilience

MUFG Bank Ltd & MUFG Securities Asia Limited (collectively referred to as “MUFG”) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.