- Leading global bank with one of the largest customer bases in Japan, and an extensive international network covering financial and business centers around the world.
- The bank consists of 30 branches across 15 countries in APAC and set up the Regional CXO (CIO (IT), COO (Operation) and CCO (Compliance)) teams to address current critical challenges. The Regional CIO team will contribute to the achievement of business growth strategy by providing strong standardized systems and enterprise architecture.
- The Regional CIO team (APAC) has set a large scale IT transformation programme, which involves a maximum of 500 Man-months (for resource assignment) over a period of 5 - 7 years.
- This role will engage you in some of their most important challenging issues including the Transformation programme in APAC to build a strong backbone for APAC's growth ambition (including drastic improvement in regional IT skill and capability).
Company Profile
MIZUHO BANK, LTD. IS A SUBSIDIARY OF THE JAPAN-BASED MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. (LISTED ON THE TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE AND NYSE) AND IS ONE OF THE LARGEST FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANIES IN THE WORLD. MIZUHO BANK, LTD. PROVIDES FINANCIAL AND STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FOR THE INCREASINGLY DIVERSE AND SOPHISTICATED NEEDS OF ITS CLIENTS WITH OFFICES LOCATED IN ALL THE MAJOR CITIES OF THE WORLD SUCH AS TOKYO, NEW YORK, LONDON, HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE.
Job Responsibilities
This role is responsible for managing key missions of the large scale APAC IT transformation programme (which involves a resource assignment of 500 Man-Months in peak months and a programme period of 5 - 7 years). We expect you to lead key initiatives such as:
1. Define and operate our APAC IT transformation programme portfolio management to align APAC IT strategy.
2. Project initiation tasks aligned with APAC IT strategy and business prioritization.
3. Define and build new tech delivery model and new operating model.
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1) Portfolio Management of APAC IT Transformation (including APAC IT Roadmap)
a) Monitor and prioritize each initiative and system development projects.
- Set up the monitoring/prioritizing plan and process.
- Monitor progress for each system development plan created by application and infra development team.
- Operate monitoring and facilitate APAC IT Strategy Committee to update the status and prioritization for each key initiative.
b) Monitor the value realization.
- Set the value framework for value realization for each key initiative.
- Monitor the value realization plan (including schedule) for each key initiative.
c) Discuss and revisit business alignment.
- Plan and execute the review of the key initiative deliverables (such as project & investment plan, design documents and project completion report, etc.) to align business targets and requirements.
- Facilitate discussions about the action plan to address alignment gaps.
2) Project Initiation for Major APAC IT projects.
a) Ideate each initiative into a real project (start pre-study).
- Define project initiation process and template.
- Identify key initiatives from APAC IT strategy based on prioritization and collect business impact and expectations.
- Prepare for pre-study/discovery phase project plan with investment of the project plan.
b) Socialize and communicate to obtain approval.
- Build relationships with related departments within APAC Strategy.
- Set the communication plan for socializing.
- Explain and obtain approval of each key initiative alignment from related department heads.
- Explain and obtain approval of each key initiative from senior management as part of stakeholder management to align their APAC business and IT strategy.
3) Develop and Operate Tech Delivery Model for Transformation.
a) Make policy/design concrete Delivery Model.
- Define the delivery model policy and concept and detail delivery structure.
- Socialize with related teams to align the concept of the delivery model.
- List vendor requirements, assessment criteria, and scoring rules.
- Publish the RFI to do initial assessment for each vendor.
b) Onboard & Arrange contracts with development vendors.
- Based on the concept and policy of the delivery model, prepare for RFPs to build the delivery team.
- Review and facilitate the proposal session to select the vendors.
- Assess and make decisions for the target vendor for each key initiative.
- Support vendor onboarding (contracting, resourcing, kick-off preparation and logistics, etc.).
c) Operate the Delivery Model - Conduct RFP/contract process for each project.
- Confirm and review the vendor plan (Master & Detail) based on RFPs for each project.
- Monitor vendor's process and performance and prepare for vendor assessment and mitigation plan.
4) Develop and Maintain the New Operating Model for Region/Countries.
a) Define Operating model for Region/Countries.
- Support and monitor current operating model for Region/Countries and list improvements for centralization and standardization in APAC CIO.
- Establish communication rules (Monthly Meeting, Committee, Reporting), KPI Management to monitor APAC/Country initiative progress, and HR development plan to improve skillset and capability coverage.
b) Reporting management.
- Plan (including schedule) reporting schedule to senior management to update the progress of the new operating model.
- Explain to senior management and share feedback with Country CIOs.
c) Collect knowledge and case studies for operating model.
- Collect benchmarks and case study samples of operating models and list pain points and improvement points.
- Set the plan for improvement followed by the PDCA cycle.
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