VP, Business Planning / Transformation Manager, Global Markets Division Americas

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Job Summary:

The Business Planning / Transformation Manager (VP) will together with existing Business Strategy/Planning team support Head of Global Markets Divisions Americas. His/her primary focus will be on supporting the Head of Global Markets Divisions Americas by focusing on the Japanese Corporate Sales Trading and Treasury business based in NY. Candidate will assist in delivering strategic growth initiatives advice management actions based on business KPI dashboard and/or building a robust managerial performance reporting platform by engineering & refining the complex process.

Responsibilities will include:

• By being a part of Front Office members forming and executing strategic initiatives of a bank for S&T / Treasury business as an independent enabler of the bank.
• Formulation and execution of strategy and initiatives will include the following aspects:
  • Cultivating support from senior managements as sponsors
  • Collaboration and partnership with internal support teams (Risk Compliance Legal IT and Finance etc.) to promote business priorities
  • Developing and driving implementation of innovative technologies / third party services to gain leaps in operational efficiencies

• Being accountable for engaging stakeholders throughout all phases of the initiative from formulation to execution:
  • Organizing tasks dependencies and issues based on In-depth functional understanding of S&T / Treasury business of large banking institutions
  • Manage progress of individual tasks & RAID for the initiatives escalate to senior management promptly and effectively
  • Engaged with other stakeholders both internally and externally to ensure appropriate representation.

• Leading business performance analysis by accessing various managerial reporting / metrics and consolidating the trend and view of the organization with simplified visuals and clear message. The contents include

• Cost analysis (systems vendors internal allocations etc.)
• Revenue analysis (client segment product etc.)
• Budget / resource planning to meet revenue/NOP targets
  • Consolidating data reports process so that we can create a robust managerial reporting platform efficiently from process and governance perspectives
    • To that extent commit to critical regular management reporting generation on a timely manner as a part of planning team

Skills & Requirements:

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree
• Aminimum of 5-7 years of prior large corporate financial services work experience
• Preferably as a Sales Trader Treasurer or Business Manager supporting a complex global bulge-bracket banking organization with Fixed Income or FX products
• Knowledge of business trend analysis data mining data analysis resource allocation
• Successful hands-on delivery experience of digital transformation using modern technologies / platform
• Successful hands-on delivery experience of managerial / financial reporting consolidation and process improvement
• Prior experience in a Business Strategy function or Strategy & Management consulting firms is a plus
• An advanced Masters degree in Accounting Financial Engineering and or a CPA CFA certification or an MBA is a plus
• Experience in managing and mitigating business risk

General skills & experience:

• Excellent MS application skills including Excel and PowerPoint to enable senior management reporting
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong decision-making skills the ability to demonstrate sound judgment
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Business level Japanese speaking writing and reading is a plus (but not mandatory)
• It is a plus to have some skills (but not mandatory) with actual delivery of projects/products/services: Statistics background w/t Python Machine/Deep Learning implementation data visualization with Tableau/Microsoft Power BI Process Automation with Gen AI / AI agent cloud platform setup such as AWS bedrock Snowflake Data Bricks etc.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $125K - $168K depending on job-related knowledge skills experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits retirement plans educational assistance and training programs income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities paid maternity and parental bonding leave and paid vacation sick days and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary