[Up to 25mil] Japan Regional Head of Division - ED level

A global Financial Firm is seeking an Executive Director Level - Japan Regional Head of Wholesale and Corporate Production Services.
This role provides strategic leadership for Wholesale and Corporate Production Services, ensuring the stability, resilience, and performance of critical applications and infrastructure supporting front-to-back business operations across all asset classes.

Responsibilities:
- The position includes full accountability for service continuity, major incident response, operational governance, and alignment with global strategy and regulatory expectations
- You will lead a large, distributed team, working closely with senior executives up to Senior Managing Director level, acting as the face of IT Production Services within Japan
- The role drives transformation and modernization initiatives—including automation, AI adoption, monitoring enhancements, and operational efficiency improvements—while managing production change flows to enhance business performance, reduce cost, and mitigate operational risk
- Strong capability in regulatory compliance and risk management in Japan’s financial environment is essential, ensuring adherence to internal controls and external audit requirements
- In addition, you will shape people development, vendor strategy, and budget governance, fostering talent growth and optimizing spend to deliver high-quality and cost-efficient production services

Why should you apply: 
- You will be part of a Global IT team to be part of winning asset banking
- Diverse and  Stable environment
- First-hand experience on high level digital transformation


Company Details: 
Headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Hong Kong, London, and New York, it is Japan's largest securities firm, employing approximately 26,000 staff worldwide and offering a full range of equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, and other investment products and services.

Working Hours: 08:40 – 17:40
Workstyle: By principle, it will be 1 day working in office, 4 days working from home (Depending on nature of the job, it will be decided by department head) 
Holidays: Saturday, Sunday, and National Holidays, Year-end and New Year Holidays, Paid Holidays, Other Special Holidays
Benefits: Social insurance, pension, transportation, etc.

Required Skills:
- At least 15 years experience in international banking or Financial services, specific experience in area of global markets – Equity trading
- At least 5 years’ experience with strong leadership, leading transformative programs in application production support
- At least 5 years experience in crisis management and executive level incidence responses