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Mizuho Financial Group

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Big Ambitions - Lack of Talent - Vice President Mizuho Financial Group Employee Review

2.0
May 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Mizuho has some large ambitions of becoming the premier stop for Investment Banking when working in the Asian Market. Investing quite heavily in cloud technology and virtualization to drive in that direction. Health Benefits are about half the out of pocket costs compared to Domestic Firms, while remaining as comprehensive.

Cons

Stuffy management who resistant to change and stifling the ability of the firm to move towards its goal directions. Work from home policy following the pandemic restriction relaxation is a mess of differing policies depending upon department and manager. 401k match is an abysmal 2% Raise average 3% while inflation is near 8%, providing pay cuts to employees and demanding more expenses. Manual excel processes are hard to change. Firm lacks a proper data governance program, and instead ops for lite Data Management Office for a check in the box type design that is failing every department that should be able to rely on it. Back office lacks skills and personnel to support firms growth goals and likely to collapse. Manual processes pose systemic risk to the firms ability to grow and current staff involved in those processes are overworked and likely to leave.

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Cons

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