Markets COO / Business Management - Associate / Vice President

Profile Summary

The role provides business management and project execution support to the Markets arm of the CIB Structured Financing Group (CSF). There is focus on implementation of new products and coordination of strategic projects while offering broad exposure across structured financing product suite (including but not limited to repo, TRS, CLO) and opportunity to develop expertise in product governance, change delivery, business management and strategic execution within a growing business.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Support the CSF COO in the development and implementation of new products, business initiatives and strategic projects.

- Coordinate project workstreams, maintain project plans, manage actions and track milestones to support timely delivery of business priorities.

- Assist with the preparation of business cases, governance materials, committee papers and supporting documentation required for new business and product approvals.

- Support engagement with key stakeholders across Front Office, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Treasury, Operations and Technology to facilitate the delivery of new initiatives.

- Maintain oversight of initiative pipelines and contribute to status reporting, issue management and governance forums to support effective decision making.

- Assist with strategic planning activities, management presentations, business reporting and ad hoc analysis for senior management.

- Support the coordination of regulatory, operational and control-related workstreams associated with new products and business activities.

- Contribute to maintaining a robust control environment by supporting audits, policy updates, governance requests and other business management activities.

- Provide general business management and project support across CSF as required.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse issues, identify solutions and drive actions through to completion.

- Resilient, adaptable and highly organised to be able to manage multiple competing priorities in a dynamic business environment.

- Demonstrates initiative, ownership and a willingness to learn new products, processes and areas of the business.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across a range of stakeholders.

- Ability to coordinate activities across multiple teams and maintain momentum on projects and business initiatives.

- Good attention to detail and a structured approach to task and project management.

- Commercially curious with an interest in financial markets, structured financing and product development.

- Experience in one of the following areas is desirable: business management, project management, change management or a related area; a second line of defence function with daily interaction with FO (e.g. product control, risk or operations)

- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.

- Degree educated or equivalent professional experience.

What Mizuho can offer you

In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:

- Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus

- Non-contributory pension

- 27 days’ annual leave

- Core working hours*

- Hybrid working - office and home based*

- Virtual GP

- Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders

*For applicable roles only

At Mizuho we are committed to supporting equality, diversity and equality, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities.

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