Assistant Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Planning

Role & responsibilities

• Support / lead / program-manage Strategic projects including but not restricted to existing business growth, new business incubation, inorganic growth, new business build and partnerships (synergies with SMBC Corporate customers), risk management (credit policy, operational, fraud), risk analytics, collections and recoveries excellence, operational excellence.
• Program management of strategic projects.
• Support execution and delivery of strategic projects e.g. incubation of new business, new partnerships (synergies with SMBC Corporate customers), risk management, recoveries excellence, etc.
• Drive CEO priorities understand CEO priorities in CEO-LT reviews, develop/review minutes of the meeting, track closure with cross-functional senior teams / LT members.
• Develop presentations for Management Reviews; identify areas of focus / priority / value creation for the business / organization.
• Macro / industry / competition intelligence to identify opportunities for SMICC business growth / value creation. May include both primary and secondary market research and data analysis.
• Above responsibilities may include cross-functional interaction with Sales, Product, Risk Policy, Underwriting, Collections / Recoveries, Tech teams.
• Above responsibilities may include interactions with shareholder (SMBC) teams – direct, and seconded to SMICC.
• Above responsibilities may also require engagements with external partners, including business partners, Strategy / Tech / Risk Management Consulting Partners, investment bankers, digital / tech service providers.