Vice President, Treasury Capital Management

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $146,000.00 and $180,000.00. 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.

Role Description

• Run processes and perform ad-hoc analyses to support BAU and strategic initiatives, including capital distribution, cost of capital, group policies and procedures, and analytics;
• Analyze and interpret financial statements to develop forecasting processes to enable entity, business, and regional views of both local and global financial resource consumption and constraint;
• Develop and enhance financial forecasts and perform detailed analyses to support capital management initiatives, including stress testing;
• Utilize spreadsheet software and analytics tools to analyze and interpret large datasets;
• Prepare high quality, well-structured presentations for senior leadership and other stakeholders;
• Maintain an understanding of SMBC’s regulatory capital and funding processes and anticipated future regulatory rule changes;
• Collaborate cross-functionally across Risk, Finance, and Treasury teams and maintain foundational knowledge across Treasury disciplines, inclusive of liquidity management, funds transfer pricing, and asset / liability management;
• Support end-to-end project management of routine and ad-hoc workstreams within Capital Management through minute-taking, artifact documentation and status reporting to senior leadership; and
• Support the drafting, review, and update of relevant policies relating to Treasury fields such as the Capital Management Policy and Capital Distribution Framework.

Key Competencies

• Self-Starter: Demonstrates motivation to understand processes, has the confidence to question the status-quo and resilience to find creative solutions in a complex work environment;
• Partnership and Collaboration Skills: Strong communication skills required to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels in the organization. Strong ability to influence without authority to guide and convince others, including members of own team and colleagues in other areas of the bank;
• Improvement Mindset: Demonstrated ability to understand and derive relationships across complex subject matters in order to perform sophisticated, complex analyses to achieve efficiencies;
• Organizational and Time Management Skills: Ability to manage a constantly evolving inflow of projects and meet targets;
• Adaptability to Change: Thrives on challenges in a fluid and dynamic working environment; and
• Presentation Skills: Ability to produce senior management ready reoccurring and ad-hoc packages for CUSO Treasurer, U.S. CFO and other key stakeholders inclusive of financial results, peer comparisons, what-if analyses with regards to new initiatives and/or new business.

Qualifications And Skills

• 6+ years of working experience in financial industry in Finance, Treasury, or Risk departments – prior experience in CCAR/DFAST is preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, mathematics, computer science or related field, Master’s degree preferred; and MBA/CFA/FRM/CPA or other professional qualification highly preferred
• Programming analytics, QRM capital integration, data aggregation and automation
• Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously and plan/prioritize appropriately
• Lead and drive initiatives through creative thinking and pragmatism
• Excellent writing skills, previous experience in drafting corporate policies or procedures is highly preferred
• Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI
• Basic experience in Python, R, SPSS, and/or SQL
• Strong presentation and inter-personal skills

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at [email protected].