Audit Associate - Data Analytics

 SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $97,000.00 and $156,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

Support business planning and operations by delivering key insights from corporate data sources. Develop reports and dashboard tools to visualize data for rapid understanding and communication. Work with business units to understand data requirements and implement processes for ensuring data integrity.

Role Objectives: Delivery

Maintain and run queries against corporate data sets to answer key business questions. Support exploratory analysis of existing data to uncover new trends and insights. Troubleshoot issues with reports and dashboards to enable continuous monitoring of important business performance metrics and support effective visualization of data. Assist in delivering advice to business units on data capture requirements for analysis and on the creation of metrics to capture performance insights. Provide support to business teams on utilizing reporting tools and application of data observations. Perform initial clean-up and classification of datasets, apply transformations to ensure compliance with data dictionaries, source missing data, and trace origin of any data quality issues.

Role Objectives: Interpersonal

Support Database Administrators with the management of data dictionaries, monitoring of data resource performance, and running processes for data cleaning and error checking.   Establish position as a resource to colleagues for advice on all aspects of data utilization, including capture, analysis, reporting, and prediction.   Support work with other business teams to utilize their business and market knowledge to develop key data questions and performance metrics.   Work with Data Governance team to ensure that all data is captured and utilized in ways that meet security standards and regulatory requirements.

Role Objectives: Expertise

Demonstrate basic knowledge of SQL, Python, and other data and query programming languages as well as remaining up to date on the latest industry tools and best practices. Display ability with Tableau, Power BI, and other data reporting and dashboard tools to create effective data visualizations. Employ understanding of statistical modeling and analysis frameworks to gain key insights from collected data and support development of predictive data models. Develop communication and presentation ability to capably illustrate complex data models to a wide audience of stakeholders.

Qualifications and Skills

Recommended years of experience: 3

Additional Requirements

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.