Japan GEM (Global Entity Management) Leader

1. Provide governance and legal entity oversight of Japan.

2. Optimize the operations of company business in Japan to enable the business to move quicker by streamlining processes and ensuring the control functions are suitably able to support the commercial objectives; and provide the leadership that encourages the management team to further coalesce into a high performing, unified whole.

3. Initiate, own and execute strategic projects related to corporate governance, regulatory and licensing.

4. Support the execution of strategic regulatory engagement plan for Japan to continually uplift the relationship with key regulatory agencies.

5. Function as the senior leadership faceoff with regulators during onsite audits, discussions on salient issues, etc. And establish and maintain strong contacts with key officials, including legal, legislative, regulatory and law enforcement individuals and organizations on both operational and strategic level.

6. Build effective, trust based, working relationships with Head Office, the local Boards, Regulators, Government, Industry bodies and other key stakeholders.

7. Monitor and track legislations and regulatory initiatives impacting company

1. Prior experience as a GM/COO or functional executive, in the international leadership team of a significant financial services business of scale and complexity or in related regulated industries.

2. Experienced interacting with independent Boards and Regulators.

3. Familiarity with the landscape in Japan, coupled with perspectives from working in a matrixed environment. Ideally, they would have experience working for a US multinational at some stage in their career.

4. Knowledgeable about competitive forces within and outside of the industry; and

5. Track record of driving results for an organization

6. Support crisis management matters with management