About Us
Mizuho Bank is the banking subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, which is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world, as measured by total assets of approximately US 2 trillion. Mizuho's 55,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in over 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.
Mizuho Bank Singapore Branch has an established local presence with over 50 years of history and serves as the regional hub for the bank's APAC operations.
Operating with a Full Bank License, Mizuho Bank Singapore Branch provides banking services to over 2,000 Japanese and non Japanese corporate clients, with a staff strength of about 1,000 employees. We provide expertise in corporate finance, trade finance, cash management, funds transfers, project finance, and treasury services to help businesses develop and find new opportunities. We also collaborate with our affiliate company, Mizuho Securities, to provide investment banking solutions to our clients.
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2066BR
Department
Asia-Pacific Corporate Function Coordination Department
Section
Core Banking Delivery
Location
Singapore
Job Responsibilities
Functional Leadership
- Analyze the business requirements and convert them to technical requirements for the CASA platform implementation, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, IT standards and business objectives.
- Be a go to person for all functional needs for the requirements
- Be a trusted advisor for business stakeholders on the functional implementations
- Establish and enforce governance needs, compliance with security, scalability and performance requirements.
Solution Design, Development and Integration
- Be part of the solution design and development discussions. Provide inputs for the seamless integration with vendor solutions like Oracle FLEXCUBE and with bank's core and downstream systems like Payments / Trade Finance / Lending / Markets.
- Take ownership for the data models and dictionaries between systems for the appropriate integration
- Have a complete control on the requirements for the integrations with third-party CASA systems and regulatory systems
- Support system migration, ensuring minimal disruption and data integrity during transitional phases.
- Collaborate with vendors, internal IT teams, and stakeholders to provide the required solutions and troubleshoot issues wherever applicable.
Risk and Quality Management
- Identify and mitigate operational and technical risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring high-quality deliverables that meet business and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct configuration reviews, performance tuning to ensure robust and scalable implementations.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management
- Work closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, and vendors to ensure alignment between technical and business objectives.
- Act as the primary liaison between internal teams and platform vendors, ensuring smooth integration and issue resolution.
- Provide functional insights and updates to senior management, supporting strategic decision-making and project governance.
Continuous Improvement
- Stay updated with emerging industry trends, driving innovation in technology and core banking systems.
- Document best practices, functional standards, and lessons learned to support future implementations and organizational knowledge sharing.
Job Requirements
Experience Requirements
- Strong expertise in CASA systems, with functional knowledge and implementation experience with focus on business analysis, testing, integration and implementation of solutions. Oracle FLEXCUBE DDA experience is highly preferred.
- Extensive experience in CASA implementations across various markets (preferably APAC region).
- Extensive experience leading functional delivery of large-scale, multi-market platform implementations in the international banking or financial services sector.
- Proven track record in overseeing solution design, integration, and end-to-end implementation for banking platforms.
- In-depth knowledge of security, compliance, and regulatory requirements for platform technology in the financial sector.
- Ability to manage and collaborate with geographically distributed teams across multiple APAC markets
Key Skills and Qualifications
- Education:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Certifications:
- Any cloud certifications could be added advantage (AWS or Azure)
- SWIFT Certifications if any, for instance, ISO 20022, could be value add.
- Other Product Certifications will be advantageous.
- ISO 20022 Knowledge:
- ISO 20022 knowledge on the message formats for SWIFT
- Hands on experience working with both MT and MX message details and nuances
- Key Skills:
- SQL: SQL knowledge will be important. Any tool knowledge of SQL will be mandatory.
- Documentation: BRD/FSD preparation experience, experience in coming up with test scenarios, reviewing test cases etc. will be required.
- Hands-on functional experience with platforms such as DDA's, Customer on-boarding, Reference Data, FX systems for various markets
