Join the Mizuho team as a Lead Systems Analyst/PM/Scrum Master!

Role Summary:

• As a Lead Systems Analyst, work closely with business users at all levels to understand and document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work closely with development teams in analyzing, designing, building, and testing financial business applications.
• Maintain active communication channels with all stakeholders on deliverables and periodically send status reports.
• Ability to provide end-user application support to front-office, middle-office and back-office users.
• Should have excellent communication skills & strong analytical skills.
• Should have prior experience interacting and communicating with senior management.
• Should have experience working in fast paced, high pressure environments.
• Should be able to drive projects with minimal, unstructured or no requirements.
• Should be able to track all outstanding bugs, enhancement requests and production issues and manage them from initiation to completion.
• Ability to perform QA testing and troubleshoot production issues.
• Ability to prioritize and allocate resources, tasks effectively.
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and work with multiple teams.
• Good knowledge of JIRA and Agile development methodology is a must.
• Should have prior financial domain experience.
• Candidates with investment banking experience would be preferred.
• SQL knowledge and data mining skills a huge plus.

The expected base salary ranges from $101k-$145k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations.

Company Overview

Mizuho Americas is the fastest growing region within Mizuho Financial Group (NYSE: MFG), the 15th largest bank in the world with total assets of approximately $2 trillion. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America and our capabilities span investment and corporate banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Mizuho Americas employs more than 3,000 professionals across 15 offices within the Americas. Learn more at www.mizuhoamericas.com.

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an EEO/AA Employer -M/F/Disability/Veteran.

We participate in the E-Verify program.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

We are a leading global bank, with one of the largest customer bases in Japan, and a global network of financial and business centers. We continue to pride ourselves on our "customer first" principle as a centerpiece in servicing both our individual and corporate customers, with the goal of becoming their most trusted bank.