Talent

Maximizing Employee Performance and Supporting Professional Development

We work to ensure that all employees are always mindful of Our Principle, that professionals empowered by diversity reinforce and support each other to produce results as a team, and that each individual continues to take on new challenges. We are committed to developing professional human resources who embody this vision.

Human Resources Development and Training Policies

We are working to create an environment that enables each employee to take on new challenges with a positive outlook and to achieve their dreams and hopes while engaging in self-led growth.
To realize Our Vision as part of the "SMFL Way" and ensure our human resources strategy takes root, we have set the following three policies with respect to human resource development and training.

  • Supporting self-led challenges and career development
  • Fostering a culture of human resource development in business units and departments
  • Providing job satisfaction and unlocking employee potential through learning

One example is the launch of the SMFL Academy training platform. SMFL Academy is a mechanism through which employees can proactively hone their expertise to enhance our human capital.
As our business domains expand and diversify, we believe that one of the core missions of ours is to support self-led career development with the goal of ensuring each employee experiences growth. Going forward, we will encourage employees to undertake challenges in new business fields.

This diagram illustrates Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing’s policy on human resource development. As part of executing a human resource strategy linked to the company’s overall management strategy, various training and development initiatives and career support programs are interconnected to ensure that employees “derive fulfillment from learning and maximize their potential.” It also includes information on department- and branch-level human resource development, cultivating and promoting the corporate culture, and support for self-directed challenges and career development.

  • SMFL Academy

    A structural diagram of the smfl academy by sumitomo mitsui finance and leasing the offers not only digital global but also hierarchical training general education skills career

Human Resource Development

We have established an environment in which each employee can engage in self-led learning, and is actively expanding training opportunities led by each business unit and department in an effort to develop highly specialized talent according to the business strategy.
In FY2025, human resource investments are planned to reach ¥1.43 billion, of which education expenses will account for ¥740 million. Likewise, annual education expenses per person in FY2025 are expected to grow by a factor of 3.1 compared with FY2022.
These annual education expenses include job title and position-based training, unlimited GLOBIS learning opportunities provided to all officers and employees, fees for programs aimed at enhancing management skills, and external training costs incurred by the SMFL Business College. In addition, the expenses also include the Skill Up Challenge Fund, which allocatesIn addition, the expenses also include the Skill Up Challenge Fund, which allocates educational costs to each department to enhance our business foundation, and by actively utilizing this fund, we are also focusing on developing global talent and DX personnel.

Trends in investment in human resource development and education expenses

Stacked bar chart showing applications and transfers from 2018 to 2025 (planned). Applications: 5 in 2018, 21 in 2019, 56 in 2020, 62 in 2021, 88 in 2022, 94 in 2023, 87 in 2024, and 121 planned in 2025. Transfers: 3 in 2018, 6 in 2019, 15 in 2020, 35 in 2021, 35 in 2022, 61 in 2023, 56 in 2024, and 75 planned in 2025.

Trends in annual training expenses per person

Bar chart showing annual education expenses per person from 2022 to 2025 (planned). Values increase each year: ¥89,000 in 2022, ¥141,000 in 2023, ¥207,000 in 2024, and a planned ¥274,000 in 2025.

Grobal Human Resource Development

With the rapid expansion of global business, we define the types of global talent required by the Human Resources Department and each division, and consider and implement development measures based on their respective requirements. The Global Academy not only provides opportunities to improve language skills but also promotes systematic talent development by supporting the acquisition of skills necessary to drive global business within the SMFL Group and through "overseas work trainees."

Digital Talent Development

With the aim of becoming "an advanced digital company" as stated in Our Vision of the "SMFL Way", we are leveraging digital technology to drive a transformation in our business. Looking ahead to 2030, we seek to be a ubiquitous digital company and a company with digital as a business pillar. In addition to providing learning opportunities through the Digital Academy, which offers training and on-demand videos, we have launched an in-house trainee program for the purpose of developing digital talent as well as in-house DX talent certification systems (DX Pass and DX Drivers), and are working to enhance the digital mindsets, literacy, and skills of not only specialized human resources, but all employees.