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The Group Head & Executive Director for Business Planning oversees the strategic planning and business management functions for SMBC’s Wholesale Banking operations in India. Based in Singapore with a solid-line reporting to the Co-Heads of Corporate and Investment Banking, India, the role ensures coherent strategy execution, portfolio optimization, global connectivity, and disciplined business governance across Corporate & Investment Banking activities in India. The role also supports future-state governance preparation in anticipation of potential wholly own subsidization.

Strategic Planning & CIB Model Design (India Market)

• Lead the design, enhancement, and governance of the CIB operating model for India.
• Define the target state coverage framework across major client segments.
• Ensure alignment with SMBC global sector coverage and risk appetite.
• Drive mid- to long-term business planning initiatives.
• Assist with new strategic ideas and their implementation

Regional–Global Coordination (SMBC Global Platform)

• Act as key interface between India onshore teams and global units, including India CIB team in Singapore.
• Integrate India-originated opportunities with global account plans.
• Coordinate strategic dialogues across regional and product partners.

Business Management & Portfolio Oversight

• Oversee portfolio management including revenue analytics and profitability monitoring.
• Lead budgeting cycles and performance management for Wholesale Banking India.
• Establish MIS, dashboards, and KPI frameworks.
• Ensure alignment with credit risk on sector strategies and portfolio limits.

Partnership Management & Internal Coordination

• Coordinate with Risk, Finance, HR, Compliance, Operations, and Legal across regions.
• Strengthen collaboration with SMBC Group companies.

Operational Governance & Process Excellence

• Oversee management processes including internal controls and operational planning.
• Ensure adherence to regulatory expectations from RBI, SEBI, MAS, and JFSA.
• Maintain disciplined management reporting to HQ and regional committees.
• Prepare future-state governance framework for wholly own subsidization.

People Leadership & Cross-Border Team Management

• Lead and coach a cross-border planning team.
• Promote a high-performance, transparent culture.
• Develop future leaders for SMBC India franchise.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• 10+ years' experience in Wholesale Banking or CIB Strategy.
• Experience in multi-jurisdiction business planning.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Ability to lead teams across geographies.
• Excellent communication and synthesis skills.
• Experience designing organization and process architecture.
• Strong risk and control awareness
• Effective stakeholder management
• Sound judgment and problem-solving skills
• Structured and organised working style

This role can be based in either Hong Kong or Singapore.

The Asia Head leads the end to end growth and solution strategy in addition delivery execution to ensure our Clients funds are available at the right time, in the right location and the right currency for corporates and non-bank financial institutions. This includes defining the right account architecture, location and the optimal automated funding and multi-currency solutions set to support both financial and commercial transactions. The role sets regional blueprints and commercialization plans, partners with Sales, Product and the Corporate Bank and scales adoption and revenue while protecting our leadership in liquidity and account management. The leader is adept at combining traditional and next generation capabilities (physical and notional pooling, virtual accounts, blockchain constructs) to meet client needs, expand market share and retain the bank’s leading position in Asia.

Job responsibilities

• Lead regional Liquidity & Accounts (LAS) penetration and commercialization strategy, set growth objectives and deliver adoption, revenue growth, margin expansion, cross sell, and wallet share gains, in addition coordinate cross region and cross LOB plays (e.g., Trade, Merchant Services).

• Lead an APAC specialist team, set coverage model and book of work, drive enablement programs to align with client buying and usage behavior and deliver balance and revenue plans by sector and country cluster, expand liquidity wallet share across regions. Partner with corporate bankers and payment sales to target opportunities.

• Serve as senior sponsor on priority client and prospect engagements, shape global RFP responses and C suite pitches, tailor compliant account architectures for automated funding, cash extraction, payout and settlement flows across global markets.

• Apply end to end liquidity and account structuring expertise and corporate regulatory know how (including third party money), influence product roadmap using voice of customer, data and digital trends.

• Serve as APAC market expert on regulations and trends affecting funding automation, pooling, cash extraction, and settlements, embed strong risk and control behaviors, proactively identify, escalate and remediate issues, maintain clean audits and regulatory readiness by jurisdiction.

• Elevate market presence through client and industry engagement (events, seminars, webinars, presentations), including on the ground initiatives monitoring competition, economy, regulation and client behavior and provide thought leadership to accelerate platform transformation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related equivalent; advanced credentials a plus. Demonstrated experience in liquidity management and payment solutions with client facing product or sales leadership across Mid and Large Cap corporates in APAC (10+ years total; 5+ years leadership).

• Deep structuring expertise and regulatory literacy, including third party money considerations and intercompany or merchant settlement flows; awareness of domestic and international tax and accounting implications from clients’ perspective.

• Strong familiarity with market and industry trends and technological advancements (virtual accounts, blockchain, data driven solutions); ability to leverage these to inform innovation and commercialization impact in Asia.

• Proven leadership and stakeholder management within large cross functional organizations; track record of setting strategy, building teams, and delivering against revenue and platform outcomes in complex, regulated environments.

• Strong understanding and appreciation of the regulatory and control environment; proactive risk identification, escalation, and remediation to maintain audit readiness and regulatory compliance by market.

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills; ability to engage at C suite level and translate complex structures into clear, outcome oriented narratives and decisions; strong organizational and strategic skills; execution oriented, independent operator who delivers efficiently at regional scale.

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What you will do

• Lead, originate, execute and portfolio management of digital infrastructure investment opportunities
• Prepare document for internal investment committee meetings
• Senior end-to-end hands-on role in investment team, responsible for expanding digital infrastructure platform, AUM growth, product development and fee revenue
• Deep individual contribution in underwriting, acquisitions, portfolio management, and stakeholder management
• Involvement in strategic and tactical work, from high-level negotiations to detailed underwriting and analysis
• Keep abreast of all digital infrastructure markets across APAC

Must-have skills & attributes

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering or a quantitative discipline (strong academic record)
• 12-15 years’ relevant experience (investment banking, project-finance, infrastructure PE, Big 4 modelling, or in digital infrastructure company as a developer, operator, and/or investor within Asia Pacific)
• Solid financial-modelling ability in Excel; comfortable building models from a blank sheet and running sensitivities
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of work, maintain attention to detail, and meet deadlines in afast-paced environment
• Excellent  interpersonal,  negotiation,  and  communication  skills,  able  to  manage  senior stakeholders both internally and externally
• Experience in managing investor, lender, and/or JV partner relationships
• Passion for digital infrastructure and long-term investment strategy
• Working knowledge of accounting, valuation and basic debt-structuring concepts
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication; able to distil findings into investor-ready slides
• High attention to detail, self-starter mentality and willingness to take ownership in a lean team
• Eligibility to work in Singapore and readiness to travel within Asia-Pacific

Nice to have

• Experience  with  ESG  frameworks  (IFC  PS,  SFDR,  TCFD)  or  climate-tech  databases (BloombergNEF, Mercom)
• Exposure to asset-management or portfolio-optimisation projects
• Experience preparing investor presentations, data-rooms or other fundraising materials