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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 $142,000.00 and $196,000.00. 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

JRI-America requires a Business Analyst for the Front Office Application Team. This person will be required to provide business analysis support on several key projects for the bank. In this role, Business Analysts will partner with the PM’s to; develop business requirements, use cases, ROI’s, acceptance criteria, manage projects through the SDLC, following the outline established by the Project Management Office, to manage budgets, resource plans, change management, and other aspects of vendor relationships, including and not limited to contracts, invoicing and statements of work. This person will need to possess a basic technical aptitude to assist in the development of the IT Risk, Vendor Risk, Validation Risk assessments, as well as other support functions. If required, assist in 2nd line technical support, identify business process improvements, recommend automation in lieu of manual process and be able to communicate technical solutions to business people as well as business needs to the technical teams. This individual will leverage his/her technical knowledge across disciplines, to test, configure, implement, trouble shoot, support and document (e.g., run books and process maps) 3rd Party Vendor applications (which includes on premise, cloud, SAS and Market Data Applications).

The candidate will be comfortable facilitating requirements meetings with Senior Bank personnel, participating in technical review meetings with members of the IT Department and presenting weekly project status to Senior JRIA Executives. Reports to the Director of Front Office Applications Department. Has no direct/indirect report. Works as an individual contributor.

Experience/Knowledge

• Project Management skills.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with some basic technical skills.
• Experience with the Microsoft Suite of applications, including, MS_Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience and a working knowledge of 3rd Party systems such as Service Now, COUPA.
• Experience working in a Bank or other financial institutions.
• Must be highly energetic, detail-orientated, and extremely proactive and have the ability to perform under pressure in a challenging environment
  

Role Objectives

• Ability to work in a matrix environment/ global team.
• Work well in teams but also as an individual contributor.
• Documentation and process mapping.
• Maintain and meet all scheduled administrative tasks.
• Work with various levels of business users, other IT staff and vendors as needed.
• Meet deadlines, comfortable with change management.
• Comfortable presenting weekly to more senior leaders.

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.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.

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