Digital / Innovation Strategy Vice President

Overview

The SMBC AD Innovation and Fintech, Digital Strategy team is seeking an experienced Digital Strategy VP to join the team. This is a highly visible role where you will be working with our senior leaders across the bank to help drive and define our strategic direction. Preferred experience to help you be successful includes leading or conducting strategy exercises, market sizing, opportunity creation and shaping, working and partnering with the external tech and fintech ecosystem, and delivering strategic initiatives, innovative products and capabilities within corporate environments. Knowledge and experience working with specific business lines of a universal bank and / or emerging technologies is preferred.

Responsibilities

Support the Head of Digital Strategy in defining and delivering the long term vision of the bank for Strategic Innovation and Fintech related initiatives

• Define, drive and deliver strategic initiatives from initiative shaping to strategy definition

• Identify strategic growth and revenue opportunities for the bank

• Translate strategic direction to business and technology actions and roadmaps with understanding of the overall business, technology and operational impact and required deliverables

• Create business cases as need be to support initiative shaping, strategic investments and acquisitions

• Work with senior business leaders to translate needs into actionable initiatives and development requirements

• Lead and work with cross functional teams to deliver the strategic roadmaps, prototypes, POCs, and MVPs

• Define, structure and develop work products, deliverables and stakeholder communication

• Conduct desktop research to identify, assess and quantify new trends in demand and technology

• Conduct desktop research to benchmark competitor activities in strategic development areas, emerging technologies and digitization

• Conduct design thinking workshops with senior business leaders to uncover new opportunities to be explored or prototyped

• Work with technology and fintech firms to co-create opportunities

• Attend and participate in industry events and forums to exchange and glean knowledge on emerging technologies with industry SMEs, and identify potential future partners for the bank

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience related to management consulting, strategy, transformation, and/or digital / innovation strategy roles

• 3 years of experience in strategy

• Prior experience in financial services

• 2+ years of experience in Management Consulting (MBB, Big 4 a plus)

• Prior experience in Technology and/or Digital Strategy. Technology understanding and interest required. SME knowledge of emerging technologies a plus

• Strong communication, power point and story boarding skills required

• Strategic opportunity identification and market sizing experience a plus

• Financial modeling (business case development) required, M&A Commercial Due Diligence experience a plus

• Capital Markets, Structured debt, Sales and Trading experience a plus

Job Locations US-NY-New York

Posting Date 1 month ago (6/21/2022 6:08 PM)

Career Category Information Technology

iCIMS ID 2021-10845

Corporate Title VP

Type Fulltime-Regular (Exempt/Non-Exempt)

SMBC is an EO employer M/F/Veteran/Disability