IT Operating Model and Strategy Advisory Lead

Mizuho's Office of Strategic Advisory operates as an internal advisory capability, partnering with senior leadership to address complex, cross-functional and cross-regional challenges. This role leads the Operating Model and Strategy practice, the firm's centre of excellence for target state design. The practice sits alongside Global Integration and Transformation and Program Incubation and Delivery Design.

The position reports to the Head of the Office of Strategic Advisory and carries delegated Co-CIO authority on designated engagements. The leader is responsible for scoping, structuring, and transitioning initiatives to the relevant towers or PMOs, with value realisiation tracked against the function's self-funding model. The role covers stakeholders across MUSO, EMEA, APAC, and Head Office, and supports Mizuho's broader push toward AI-enabled, scalable operations.

• Lead the Operating Model and Strategy practice as the firm's centre of excellence for target operating model and organisational design across IT, operations, and corporate functions.
• Design target operating models, organisational structures, governance frameworks, and decision rights to reduce run-the-bank cost and complexity.
• Develop shared services, nearshore, and location strategies, including build-vs-buy and outsourcing or partnership approaches.
• Conduct benchmarking, maturity assessments, and strategic diagnostics to establish baselines and quantify opportunities.
• Build financial and strategic business cases, quantifying spend, savings, investment, and payback to support executive decision-making.
• Build repeatable methodologies, tools, and internal intellectual capital that scale the practice and strengthen institutional knowledge over time.

• 10 or more years of experience in technology strategy, target operating model design, and organisational design, ideally within financial services or a top-tier management consulting firm.
• Demonstrated track record designing target operating models, governance frameworks, and shared services or global capability centre strategies at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise in benchmarking, maturity assessment, financial business case development, and build-vs-buy or outsourcing strategy.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional and cross-regional transformation engagements and influence C-suite stakeholders.
• Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with experience operating across organisational boundaries.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree in a related field strongly preferred. Must be legally authorised to work in the United States.

Mizuho Financial Group is one of the world's largest banks by total assets, with approximately 60,000 employees serving clients across 35 countries. Mizuho Americas provides corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income, derivatives, FX, and research services to clients throughout the US, Canada, and Latin America, employing around 3,500 professionals.