Assistant Vice President, Human Resources

Headquartered in Tokyo, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a leading global financial institution and a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group). Built upon our rich Japanese heritage since 1876, we put our customers first and provide seamless access to, from and within the Asia Pacific region. SMBC is one of the largest Japanese banks by assets and maintain strong credit ratings across our global integrated network. We work closely as one SMBC Group to offer personal, corporate and investment banking services to meet the needs of our customers.

With sustainability embedded within our strategy and operations, we are committed to creating a society in which today’s generation can enjoy economic prosperity and well-being, and pass it on to future generations. 

The incumbent will play an important role to acquire the right talents for the Bank/Shared Service Centre. The person is responsible for understanding the hiring needs of the businesses and will manage the end-to-end recruitment process. Besides acquiring new talents for the Bank/Shared Service Centre, he/she will build talent pipelines to support current and future strategic business needs, support talent programs and initiatives.The incumbent will play an important role to acquire the right talents for the Bank/Shared Service Centre. The person is responsible for understanding the hiring needs of the businesses and will manage the end-to-end recruitment process. Besides acquiring new talents for the Bank/Shared Service Centre, he/she will build talent pipelines to support current and future strategic business needs, support talent programs and initiatives.

Job Description

• Partner with the Head of respective business units, HR Business Partners and hiring managers to understand their businesses, define the staffing needs and agree on recruitment strategy for the assigned business divisions.
• Perform  full cycle of the recruitment process to meet manpower requirement including resourcing, interviewing,  selection and other on-boarding process.
• Execute and deliver day to day recruitment activities professionally within the committed timeline and standards.
• Responsible for ensuring the recruitment process which includes but not limited to, compensation negotiation, background screening of potential candidates to meet with internal and external compliance requirements.
• Partnering with different HR functions to work on different projects to contribute to the HR Value Chain.
• Lead and participate in recruitment initiatives including digitalization and streamlining of recruitment processes.
• Build strategic talent pipelines with market mapping and networking activities.
• Gather market intelligence on talent landscape.

Job Requirements

• University Degree of equivalent in any disciplines.
• Preferably minimum 5 years in talent acquisition experience from recruitment agency/ in-house talent acquisition.
• Proven track record in performing the full recruitment cycle which includes engaging business effectively to understand their hiring needs, formulate strategies to attract and source candidates, candidates screening and profiling, interview and selection, offer proposal and negotiation.
• Ability to multi-task and operate effectively under fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy in work delivery.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good working knowledge of MS Word and Excel.
• Proactive, resilient and agile.
• Strong team player who is able to work with minimum supervision.