Mizuho Financial Group

Plan and support sales strategies for individual and mid-sized corporate customers, set and monitor KPIs, develop DX-enabled sales methods, and provide succession and asset-management solutions to affluent business owners in Tokyo.

Propose asset-management solutions to corporate clients across multiple industries. The role requires at least three years of corporate sales experience at a securities company and may be based in Tokyo or Osaka.

Lead enterprise-wide digital transformation strategy and execution across Mizuho Securities and the financial group. Manage AI, data, and business reform projects, coordinate stakeholders, report to executives, and mentor DX personnel.

Manage hedge fund and credit investments through economic and credit-market analysis, fund selection, portfolio monitoring, performance review, risk operations, and telework.

Plan and manage collateral-regulation operations, including client clearing, collateral management, and negotiation and execution of ISDA/CSA agreements for over-the-counter derivatives.

Plan and advance sustainability strategies covering climate change, natural capital, human rights, ESG disclosures and stakeholder communication. The role also coordinates internal and external initiatives.

Design and deploy global cybersecurity policies and controls for overseas offices and subsidiaries, coordinating governance, incident response, and cyber-intelligence sharing with regional security leaders.

Plan and advance cybersecurity measures, respond to incidents, monitor attacks, assess cyber risk, and coordinate security activities with overseas offices. The role requires systems-related experience involving cybersecurity or information security.

Coordinate with compliance officers at overseas subsidiaries to support global compliance operations, including framework development, regulatory projects, annual monitoring, investigations, reporting, and document management.

Lead technical evaluation, architecture design, production-readiness decisions, and standardization across multiple generative AI development teams. Support LLM, RAG, agent, evaluation, and guardrail selections while guiding secure, available, auditable, and cost-conscious production architectures.

Advises companies expanding into India and overseas markets through consulting, global information analysis, cross-border coordination, and banking product and solution proposals.

Manage accounting and REIT administration for J-REIT and private REIT clients, including monthly accounts, closings, disclosures, payments and meeting minutes, with future client-facing work.

Plan and verify AML/CFT and related financial-crime controls, while managing antisocial-force exclusion, transaction monitoring, suspicious-transaction reporting, and ongoing customer management.

Plans and advances internal audit operations, including audit plans, procedures, rules, improvement initiatives, and training to develop auditors’ expertise. Telework is available.

Handle ISDA master agreement and CSA execution, amendments, inquiries, and related administration while supporting margin regulation (VM/IM), trade reporting, and derivatives rules.

Conduct internal audits of company systems and verify control effectiveness. The Tokyo-based full-time role offers possible work from home and departmental flextime.

Research industries, sectors, and companies; publish reports on market trends; analyze clients’ management issues; propose strategies; and connect relationship managers with Mizuho Group financial businesses.

Conduct internal audit work across Mizuho Financial Group and its group companies, including audit planning, risk assessment, audit execution, global audit coordination, and liaison with overseas offices.

Support foreign-exchange transactions such as remittances, trade settlements, and forward contracts for companies and financial institutions, helping advance foreign-exchange sales.

Support the structuring and sales of interest rate derivatives, including pricing, execution assistance, and related activities within the market sales department in Tokyo.

Sell product syndicated loans, including domestic and overseas project finance, real estate, and LBO loans, to institutional investors and financial institutions, while promoting origination and distribution activities.

Lead transaction banking sales for Japanese corporate headquarters, proposing overseas cash management and foreign-exchange solutions. Implement cash products and support multinational clients, lead cross-border projects, and help shape products and client-focused initiatives.

Manage investments in alternative funds and mezzanine or equity financing for real assets, including due diligence, contract negotiations, execution, portfolio monitoring, reporting, and business planning. The role requires fund-related experience, English ability equivalent to TOEIC 800, and PC skills.

Monitor business activities in investment banking and market operations, support compliance framework development, and communicate with front-office and related departments.

Manage relationships with major Japanese corporations and provide financial and non-financial solutions. Identify needs across finance, business, overseas strategy and organization, using group capabilities to support clients’ business challenges and enterprise value.

Lead planning and governance improvements for IT risk management across overseas regions and locations. Assess existing controls, improve processes, monitor governance, and support global stakeholders in a hybrid Tokyo role.

Manage XVA portfolios for derivatives trading, including profit and loss and risk management, pricing support for domestic and overseas offices, tool maintenance, and hedge-planning initiatives.

Review credit applications and assign internal ratings for large Japanese companies and their domestic and overseas subsidiaries, using financial, business, industry and regulatory analysis.

Support domestic and international M&A opportunities from the initial review through execution, coordinating with coverage and product teams while preparing internal information and related materials.

Support compliance for wholesale business transactions, including regulatory compliance and conflict-of-interest matters, while helping develop and operate compliance frameworks in Tokyo.

Advise government agencies and private organizations on digital transformation, data use, mobility, autonomous driving, AI, automation, blockchain, and advanced technology strategies.

Originate and distribute syndicated loans by proposing corporate finance solutions, structuring transactions, preparing loan documents, coordinating financial institutions, and selling diverse loan products to investors.

Originate lease financing for domestic and international airlines, shipping companies, and leasing firms, including Japanese operating leases such as JOLCO and JOL. Banking experience is required; aircraft, ship, or structured finance experience is preferred.

Arrange structured, real estate, infrastructure fund, J-REIT and specialty finance transactions while proposing tailored financial solutions for financial institutions, corporations and investment funds.

Advise clients on corporate pension and retirement benefit plans through制度 analysis, plan redesign, new-plan implementation simulations, and benefit obligation calculations.

Manage middle- and back-office operations for alternative fund investments, including settlement, accounting, tax, numerical management and reporting. The role also supports department planning and requires financial-services experience.

Develop and advance R&D and DX strategies, analyze business challenges, propose technology and system implementation plans, and support organizational collaboration through execution.

Lead discussions with CxO-level executives and propose management, financial-capital, and non-financial-capital strategies for large enterprises, including capital structure, cash allocation, business portfolios, ESG, and governance.

Conduct internal audits across wholesale, retail, and corporate operations, verifying the effectiveness of controls. Work-from-home and flextime arrangements are available.

Connect overseas institutional investors and funds with corporate-owned real estate in Japan, leading cross-border transactions involving acquisitions, sales, and redevelopment projects.

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Provide consulting on numerical analysis, simulation, data science, technology trends and policy recommendations across mobility, manufacturing, energy, environment, infrastructure and disaster prevention.

Work across trade finance sales, product development and sales planning. Partner with large-corporate relationship teams to provide solutions, develop L/C and receivables products, and plan domestic and international business.

Manage syndicated loan agency operations, including document checks for new transactions, covenant monitoring, and coordination of decisions during the life of each deal.

Manage securities agency services for listed companies, including shareholder registry administration and meeting support, while proposing IR/SR and corporate governance solutions.

Supports industrial research analysts by obtaining, processing, and analyzing data, preparing materials, researching industries and companies, and contributing to strategic proposals for corporate clients.

Manage corporate pension programs through consulting, actuarial calculations, pension ALM investment advice, research, and preparation and explanation of reports for pension clients.

Manage and plan market, liquidity, and model risk activities at a financial institution, including quantitative analysis, data handling, numerical analysis, and model-building work.

Support organizational and human resources strategy, system design, training programs, and HR research for Mizuho Research & Technologies within Mizuho Bank, including organizational changes and client-facing solution development.

Plan and support corporate payments sales by using trade, foreign-exchange and transaction data, managing performance figures, developing services, and supporting sales initiatives and staff training.

Advise companies targeted by activist investors through marketing, proposals, and execution of individual advisory engagements. The role requires finance, legal, accounting, and tax knowledge.

Arrange LBO, M&A and mezzanine financing for PE funds and operating companies, monitor financed businesses, and support business development. The role is based in Tokyo.

Review IPO eligibility and underwriting of equity, debt and REIT offerings by assessing corporate governance, internal controls, business plans, financial condition and disclosure. The role supports sound capital markets and investor protection.

Plan and operate sustainability and non-financial risk management, including climate and human-rights risk rules, climate-risk measurement, trend research, disclosure, and management of reputation and third-party risks.

Manage overseas real estate fund selection, due diligence, investment decisions, monitoring, reporting, market research, and investor-focused product proposals.

Manage domestic real estate investment activities, including sourcing and due diligence, monitoring J-REITs and private funds, proposing products to institutional investors, and preparing reports.

Lead equity capital markets transactions including IPOs, POs, CBs and subscription rights, working with client coverage teams to develop proposals for listed and pre-IPO companies.

Support transaction banking sales for large, mid-sized and small-to-medium Japanese companies, plan and promote sales initiatives, and conduct proposal sales and operational work for clients in the payments business.

Trade currency options through market making, profit and position management, trading analysis, system infrastructure development, and cross-department projects. Requires currency-options book management experience, financial mathematics knowledge, Excel skills, and business English.

Structure, price, execute, and sell foreign exchange derivatives, primarily currency options. Develop new products, support system infrastructure, and advance projects with internal departments and affiliated companies.

Serve corporate pension and other institutional clients by explaining investment portfolios and products, proposing pension solutions, and supporting asset management reporting and portfolio construction. The role is based in Tokyo.

Coordinate administrative, budgeting, personnel, systems, reporting, performance management, meetings, and client events for an industrial research division while improving middle/back-office operations through IT.

Manage FX sales for domestic financial institutions, execute currency transactions, propose solutions, coordinate with traders and overseas offices, and support new-client onboarding.

Conduct real estate appraisals by negotiating assignments, analyzing market data, inspecting properties, preparing reports, and explaining valuations. Support consulting and sales teams across diverse assets.

Originate sustainable finance for large and small-to-medium enterprises, from identifying sustainability needs and proposing financing to execution and external disclosure. Coordinate with financial institutions, regulators, and third-party evaluators.

Provide investment banking proposals and relationship coverage for primarily mid-cap corporate clients of the Mizuho Group. The role requires at least three years of corporate sales experience at a securities firm.

Plan and manage IT procurement optimization, governance, partner strategy, and price and contract negotiations across group and global operations.

Conduct SOX testing to evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting, covering business-process controls and IT application and general IT controls. The role is based in Tokyo and allows working from home.

Provide strategy and management consulting for corporate clients, including long-term planning, organizational and governance design, business strategy, new business creation, DX and IT strategy, operational reform, profitability improvement, and cost reduction.

Plan and lead AI-driven business and process transformation projects across the financial group, from structuring business needs and planning PoCs through production rollout, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Provides tailored private banking solutions to corporate owners, addressing succession, capital policy, portfolios and related business and personal asset needs. Coordinates banking, trust and securities teams.

Plan and promote DX initiatives across the IT and Systems Group, using generative AI and AI-driven development to improve productivity, transform processes, and establish AI-use platforms and rules.

Advise real estate funds formed for domestic and overseas investors on financing and deal structures. Support asset finance, modeling, due diligence and scheme development with stakeholders.

Advise large companies on financial and capital strategies, including closing support, business portfolio restructuring, tax-based group reorganizations, succession planning, and ESG initiatives.

Provide FX sales services to overseas financial institutions, including central banks, hedge funds, real-money investors and other financial institutions. Execute trades, propose solutions and support client onboarding.

Originate and execute debt capital market transactions, proposing debt products to listed and comparable private companies in coordination with client coverage teams.

Conduct global IT control and cybersecurity audits across Mizuho Group, coordinate with overseas audit teams, identify common risks, and lead audit planning and execution.

Lead corporate finance activities for large companies, including relationship management, sector-based strategy proposals, M&A, securitization, project finance, and global support for Japanese and non-Japanese clients.

Advise companies on introducing and managing executive and employee stock compensation plans, including plan design, client presentations, disclosure support, and ongoing changes.

Manage syndicated loan agency operations, including document checks, loan signing, fund settlement, covenant monitoring, and coordination of lender decisions. The role is based in Tokyo with remote work one or two days per week.

Provide financial advisory services for domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including deal origination and execution. The role is open to junior and senior bankers with relevant M&A experience.

Manage relationships with large corporate, financial, and public-sector clients, coordinating trust banking solutions across real estate, pensions, and securities transfer services.

Advises corporate clients on real-estate development and rebuilding projects, preparing plans and analyses, presentation materials, and execution support with design firms and general contractors.

Drive foreign-exchange trading through electronic platforms across Japan and Asia, develop and expand client relationships, analyze transactions, propose solutions, and coordinate E-trading and related teams.

Manage pricing, allocation, offering, and documentation for domestic bond and equity finance syndication, coordinating underwriting and sales teams across corporate and IPO-related transactions.

Conduct IT audits and monitoring across Mizuho Financial Group and its companies, assessing IT governance, system risks, development controls, vulnerabilities, and remediation while reporting findings to management.

Conduct corporate consulting and policy support in the circular economy field, including research, technology assessment, quantitative analysis, model building, and scenario development.

Plan and manage procurement optimization, governance controls, and partnership development for IT systems, including negotiations and outsourcing management with partner companies across group and global operations.

Arrange and advise on project finance for power, resources, and infrastructure projects, and ECA finance for exports and overseas business, managing clients, due diligence, modeling, documentation, and syndication.

Work in financial market operations, providing client solutions through market products or handling trading, treasury and position management. Market experience is not required, and on-the-job training covers the fundamentals.

Design and build new operational workflows, support equity and financial markets divisions, coordinate IT-related development, and manage revenue and expenses while improving processes.

Plan and promote sustainability-related products, services, transition-support initiatives and future business themes, while coordinating customers, external alliances and relevant institutions.

Manage credit risk policies, ratings, provisioning, portfolio oversight and risk measurement, or plan and coordinate department operations, including reporting on overseas offices.

Advise listed companies on legal and regulatory matters, corporate governance, IR/SR, and takeover defense, while providing information and preparing written materials on these topics.

Conduct internal audits at Mizuho Trust & Banking, including audit planning, risk assessment and evaluation of controls across trust banking, governance, compliance, AML, IT and operations.

Plan and manage the optimization of market-data usage, demand management, and vendor price and contract negotiations across group and global operations. The role also manages information-use agreements, payments, and contract deadlines.

Structure and propose real estate finance transactions, mainly non-recourse loans. Assess property value and risks, negotiate terms, manage documentation and execution, and monitor deals through refinancing or restructuring.

Monitor securities trading, provide guidance, and support trade surveillance activities within the compliance division in Tokyo. Candidates may have securities compliance, equity trading or sales, RPA, or relevant mathematical and scientific university experience.

Audit and monitor AML/CFT-related systems across Mizuho Financial Group and its domestic and overseas group companies. Identify issues, assess compliance effectiveness, analyze root causes, and make recommendations.

Support risk management operations by aggregating, analyzing, and reporting risk data, coordinating with internal sections, and preparing materials with Excel and PowerPoint across financial risk areas.

Work in global transaction banking through transaction sales and product development. Support corporate clients with solution sales and develop internet banking, API, foreign exchange, payments, and trade finance products and schemes.

Advise companies on real estate utilization and strategy, including sales options, portfolio planning, analysis, and presentations. Collaborate with real estate sales and corporate relationship managers.

Handle domestic and overseas financial market regulations, coordinate with authorities and industry groups, develop internal rules, define system requirements, and build market compliance monitoring frameworks.

Support coverage bankers serving listed companies by marketing and proposing Mizuho Securities’ underwriting, M&A and structured finance products, with opportunities to join individual deals.

Manage the registration and removal of insider information and other restricted information, while maintaining records of information holders within the control room.

Advise mid-sized and listed corporate clients on business succession, family businesses, financial capital strategy and shareholder measures, working with relationship managers to deliver financial solutions.

Plan and manage facility management initiatives, budgets, business continuity measures, and emergency response. Oversee construction, maintenance, renewal, security, communications, and office-reorganization projects.

Develop corporate payment web services, including internet banking and cash management, from planning through release. Support system design and frontend or backend development.

Lead cybersecurity governance for domestic and overseas operations by setting security policies, cloud standards, vulnerability controls, risk assessments, and strategic roadmaps with key stakeholders.

Designs operational frameworks for production AI applications and agents, evaluates and selects IT and AI tools, and leads PoCs, governance, monitoring, security, incident response, cost management, and company-wide implementation.

Design architectures for introducing and applying advanced digital technologies that support Mizuho’s DX strategy. Lead projects across AI, platform engineering, data and analytics, modern security, application architecture, or blockchain.

Plan, develop, and operate business systems used by securities markets and corporate control functions. Handle the full development process from requirements definition through release, manage development partners, and support global projects and RPA/DX initiatives.

Lead SOC and CSIRT operations across the group, including security monitoring, incident detection, response coordination, threat hunting, global SOC planning, and major cyber incident management.

Plan and standardize group-wide system architecture, review architecture designs for individual projects, support enterprise-wide optimization, and coordinate stakeholders across business domains.

Plan, design, implement, and manage group-wide cloud infrastructure and architectures using AWS and GCP. Lead infrastructure governance, standardization, optimization, and coordination with stakeholders and specialists.

Lead Salesforce Financial Services Cloud implementation and CRM strategy, design data integrations and models, promote Snowflake-based data platforms, and manage cross-functional projects.

Plan systems and define requirements for securitization operations, promote IT-enabled efficiency and digitalization, manage system vendors, and advance DX initiatives within a financial services environment.

Design, build, operate and maintain server and network infrastructure, selecting cloud and data-integration platforms and proposing, implementing and supporting suitable architectures and solutions.

Evaluate the security of AI and generative AI products and projects, design assessment standards and processes, coordinate with stakeholders, and improve security operations. The role also supports vulnerability assessments, tool selection, reviews, and the launch of a new security function in Tokyo with hybrid office and remote work.

Design, build, operate and improve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting generative AI products and company-wide DX initiatives. Define architecture and security requirements while collaborating with AI technical leads and development teams.

Develop AI technologies and new services, then consult with clients on AI adoption. The role covers problem discovery, solution planning, data analysis, AI development, and implementation.

Manage system risks across IT governance, EUC and cloud environments, conduct risk assessments, and establish controls for EUC, cloud evaluations and RPA.

Develop and improve finance-focused LLMs by handling data preparation, model selection, tuning, evaluation, LLMOps, and application planning. The role also validates distributed AWS environments and works with product teams.

Lead planning, implementation, modernization, and ongoing operations for cybersecurity solutions across the Mizuho Group. Manage security infrastructure projects, coordinate teams and vendors, and design operating models.

Support the operation, development, data use, and project promotion of payment, cash management, and digital channel systems for overseas corporate customers. Coordinate with business and technology teams, overseas offices, and vendors while improving system operations and services. Remote work and flextime are available according to business and project needs.

Lead threat intelligence and Red Team/Purple Team activities, working with SOC and CSIRT teams to simulate attacks, identify vulnerabilities, and improve cyber detection, response, and resilience.

Lead projects for planning, developing, deploying, and improving generative AI products and AI agents. Manage scope, schedules, quality, risks, stakeholders, releases, and operational handovers in a hybrid Tokyo role.

Lead feasibility assessments, requirements alignment, technology selection, architecture, development, testing, and operational improvements for multiple generative AI and AI-agent products in a financial services environment.

Develop advanced information and communications technologies, including AI, machine learning, image processing, 3D measurement and recognition, VR/AR, compression coding, wireless communications, and cryptography, while prototyping applied systems.

Develop AI agents and generative-AI web applications for business-process automation, including prompt engineering, testing, evaluation and operation on AWS-based platforms. Hybrid work is available.

Plan, develop, and manage corporate web service projects, define requirements with clients, coordinate technology, and lead development teams as a prospective manager.

Plan and conduct cybersecurity audits across Mizuho Financial Group and its companies, assessing governance, systems, vulnerabilities, SOC and CSIRT operations, and incident response while proposing improvements.

Lead generative AI and AI-agent products from user research and PoC planning through launch decisions, release, KPI tracking, operations, and continuous improvement.

Advise on China-related business and support Japan-China M&A and alliances, including origination, execution, and planning. Business-level Chinese and English are required.