Associate VP

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 Senior Program lead to manage implementation of Agency Loan system projects, ensuring delivery within time, budget, and specifications, managing the end-to-end execution of projects, till project closure. Support the management decision process through the creation of project charters, scope documents, risk assessments, budgets and IT Value (ROI, IRR) discussions. Prioritize and coordinate to get approvals for projects and drive project initiation. Estimate the impact of new or modified services in terms of cost, capacity, contingency, infrastructure, and resources. Conduct feasibility studies and confirm resulting business unit decisions. Consult with senior leadership to ensure strategic alignment of projects with multiple business units' strategy and objectives. 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. Perform project planning - identify resources required, establish project schedule, and estimate budget required; support Product Owner or Project Sponsor in formalizing and presenting Project Charter to senior management for approval. 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 5 years working experience. Good experience or subject matter expertise / knowledge in 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