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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 $95,000.00 and $. 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.

General Team Description

Strategic Development sits within Finance and supports enterprise-level strategic development efforts, including selective strategic transactions and other complex, non-routine initiatives. The team partners closely with Treasury, Legal, Risk, Tax, Operations, Technology, and business stakeholders, and works with external advisors as needed.

Role Overview:

The Associate, Strategic Development is a generalist execution role supporting enterprise-level strategic development work, including strategic transactions and special situations that shape the firm’s structure, footprint, and long-term positioning. The Associate partners day-to-day with a Vice President, Strategic Development and supports end-to-end execution by producing analyses, coordinating diligence and cross-functional inputs, and preparing governance-ready materials to enable timely decisions and efficient execution.

This role is suited to a strong generalist with high capacity, strong work ethic, excellent attention to detail, and a bias for ownership and follow-through and able to deliver high-quality outputs under tight timelines and shifting priorities.

Reporting Line:

Reports to a Vice President, Strategic Development.

Strategic Development & Inorganic Opportunities:

• Support evaluation and execution of strategic transactions and non-standard initiatives, including selective acquisitions/divestitures, partnerships, minority investments, carve-outs, internal restructurings, and other special situations.
• Build structured analyses that clarify options, trade-offs, risks, and decision points for leadership.
• Develop and maintain market, peer, and competitive context relevant to active initiatives and strategic alternatives.

Execution and workstream ownership:

• Own defined transaction and initiative work streams end-to-end, including analysis, coordination, drafting, and follow-through.
• Build and review financial models and supporting analyses, including valuation, sensitivities, scenario comparisons, and impact assessments.
• Support diligence execution for assigned work streams by coordinating requests, organizing inputs, synthesizing findings, and surfacing key risks, gaps, and trade-offs for VP review.
• Maintain a clear path for assigned work streams (key deliverables, dependencies, approvals, and timing),…