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Head of Corporate Strategy, Managing Director
Union Bank
New York, NY, United States
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Head of Corporate Strategy, Managing Director
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 5th largest financial group in the world with total assets of over $2.4 trillion (as ranked by SNL Financial, April 2016) and 140,000 colleagues in nearly 50 countries. In the U.S., we’re 13,000 strong, working together to positively impact every customer, organization, and community we serve. We achieve this by delivering on our values, putting people first, fostering long-term relationships built on honesty and mutual understanding, and inspiring the best in each other. This is all part of our inclusive, high-performing culture supported by Total Rewards that include our cash balance pension plan. Join a team that’s working to fulfill its vision to be the world's most trusted financial group.
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role will be the key leader in building MUFG Americas Annual Strategic Plan. The Head of Corporate Strategy will bring an external benchmarking industry perspective, help to influence groups with emerging trends in the industry and manage strategic enterprise projects in lieu of consultants.
The role will jointly lead MUFG Americas (MUFG Americas Holdings (MUAH), including MUFG Union Bank and BTMU US Branches as well as Canada and Latin America) central strategy formulation and strategic planning efforts, as well as coordinate strategy with key MUTB and MUS (USA) subsidiaries.
Major Responsibilities:
• Lead the Americas Annual Strategic Planning Process
• Strengthen the coordination between corporate and business unit strategies
• Work directly and coordinate with Business Unit and support function senior management, Financial Planning & Analysis and BTMU liaisons. The role will include heavy interface with MUFG’s wholesale bank in NY. Prior experience and in-depth familiarity with corporate & investment banking and capital markets is required
• Support corporate development function with strategic analysis and insights related to inorganic solutions to achieve corporate strategic objectives
• Lead the team in serving as the internal Corporate Strategy Consultant
• Manage engagements of external Strategy Consultants for maximum efficiency and alignment with corporate strategy, shareholder & management goals
• Manage the development & preparation of annual, triennial and other periodic strategic plans for presentation to Executive Committee of the Americas (ECA), MUAH Board of Directors, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi (BTMU) and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) management
• Oversee strategic performance management using Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) scorecards, for key strategic initiatives. PDCA scorecards are a key management tool to assess the effectiveness of strategic initiatives, tracking both KPI’s and financial progress against objectives
• Assess external market developments including:
◦ Existing lines of business and current portfolio gaps
◦ Market structure, performance, competitive dynamics
◦ Provide direct input into strategic planning and strategy formulation processes
• Contribute to business portfolio analysis:
◦ Review key developments regarding performance and risk
◦ Work with finance group and enterprise risk management to help identify required paths of action to optimize portfolio performance
• Manage a team of Corporate Strategic Professionals and Analysts
Qualifications
Required Skills & Experience:
• An MBA or other relevant graduate degree is strongly preferred
• A minimum of 15+ years of related business experience with a strategic focus within the financial services industry
• Previous experience with a major management consulting firm and or Big 4 consulting firm coupled with financial / investment banking work experience
• Experience in corporate and business unit strategy development and management of large implementation efforts preferred
• Direct work experience that includes strategy development and/or execution within the financial services industry.
• Strong business and financial acumen and be comfortable dealing with complex financial analyses and concepts
• Requires a problem-solver who relies on facts and data to drive decisions.
• Effective negotiation skills
• Ability to communicate, through both written and verbal means, to a broad variety of audiences
• Ability to build consensus in a working group and successfully coordinate and manage persons outside of his/her direct sphere of influence
• Ability to interact with senior leaders at both the business units and in the corporate office and be able to represent the Company with senior-level external constituents
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
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