VP, Relationship Manager, Japanese

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.

This is a strategic role to develop and manage relationship with the top-tier Japanese and Korean corporate banking customers and to generate mutually beneficial business opportunities for both customers and the Bank.

Job Responsibilities

• Formulate concrete plans for the achievement of higher performance, and take charge of administration and management
• Develop specific measures for making efficient use of group resources, and take charge of implementation and furtherance
• Take charge of conducting and maintaining themoneylending business, and increasing deposits
• Take charge of facilitation of domestic exchange transactions,foreign exchange transactions and other tasks
• Strictly exercise profit management, and endeavor to assure and increase profits
• Promote good relationship with customers or other business connections, and strive to establish foundations for achieving higher performance
• Take charge of establishing and promoting a bank-wide cooperation business framework
• Take charge of administering, managing and improving overall administrative affairs in the office.
• Strive to develop better relationship in the office, stimulate morale
• Develop and implement plans for education and training for subordinates, and provide guidance on and supervise performance of duties thereof

• Graduate degree from university
• Strong written & verbal communication skills inEnglish
• Minimum 10 years Banking & Finance experience.
• Leading and managing a small team.
• Engaged in Corporate Banking
• Derive a pareto optimization between profits and results
• Proficiency in Japanese is advantageous as this role requires presenting and communicate to Japanese corporate clients whose main language is Japanese. This role also needs to prepare and present reports in Japanese and read financial statements in Japanese.
• To demonstrate strategic and creative thinking in their business.
• To have a strong appreciation of the inherent risks that involved in achieving goals
• To promote a compliance-first mindset within the team
• Ability to manage change
• Strong planning and organizational capabilities
• Effective time management skills
• Analytical mindset and ability to enable process implementation
• To build and nurture relationships at all levels
• To ensure adherence to laid down risk and compliance frameworks
• Ability to articulate the right goals, set priorities and benchmarks
• Strong numerical and financial skills with the ability to interpret financial information and able to design and use financial models
• Good understanding of the functioning of various departments / teams in the organization
• In depth understanding of the risk environment in which the bank operates
• In depth understanding of the regulatory framework in which the bank operates