Vice President, Compliance and Financial Crime Project Manager – IT Planning Division

About the Opportunity

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups.

Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed, and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

We are MUFG. 360 years of heritage. A world-class set of businesses. And more than 180,000 employees in 50 markets. It’s no surprise that MUFG has grown to become one of the top five banks in the world.

Our services include commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. MUFG offers stability in an ever-changing market, providing services to high-profile clients worldwide.

Our vision? To become the world’s most trusted financial group. You’ll help us achieve it. Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.

Dept overview

The IT Planning division is a global Programme Delivery Management team responsible for the delivery of the strategic Delivery portfolio across Bank and Securities entities in EMEA. The team is based in London with oversight, prioritization & delivery for the International Securities business portfolio and Bank London branch portfolio. The Delivery portfolio is delivered across key regional programs of work (Front Office, Compliance & Financial Crime, Operations, Finance, Risk & Data, Human Resources, Technology, and Planning), and overseen by the Regional Portfolio Committee.

Outside of the core Programme delivery portfolio; the IT Planning function leads a stream that develops and delivers Strategic or Transformation programs of work. The objectives of these are predominantly to drive simplification and deliver a sustainable operating model in EMEA that is aligned with strategic business or functional targets.

This stream currently manages the delivery of various initiatives that help define and delivery against strategic or MTP initiatives for EMEA management.

Over the past three years, MUFG in EMEA has embarked on an integration journey between MUFG Bank London and Securities to support the delivery of a sustainable business and operating model for the longer term business growth that aligns with internal performance objectives and externally to support our Clients and Market footprint in EMEA.

Main Purpose of the Role

The successful candidate will be part of the Compliance and Financial Crime Portfolio Change function, reporting into the Portfolio Lead and its corresponding delegate on a regular basis. When required, the candidate must be able to facilitate technical analysis and translate facts and figures to allow for streamlined decision making by non-subject matter experts. Experience in either Compliance (data quality, data governance, regulatory reporting / monitoring and trade / comms surveillance) or Financial Crime (AML, KYC and Sanctions screening) is a must to ensure quick understanding of content and anticipating risks or issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for delivering complex change projects from initiation through to build, deployment and handover to the business
• Manage programme of projects, some as overall project manager, some via work stream leads
• Accountable for managing the full project lifecycle adhering to management standard governance and best practice from project initiation to closure
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of the programme
• Competent in managing to established project methodology and best practice

Work Experience

Essential:

• Experience in successfully leading full lifecycle complex projects
• Minimum 10 years proven track record delivering projects to financial institutions within time and budget
• Strong governance approach to delivery
• Effective communication and leadership

Skills And Experience

Functional / Technical Competencies:

• Full understanding of the project lifecycle
• Strong project delivery and deadline management
• Experienced user of project management tools
• Proven experience of managing budgets

Education / Qualifications

Degree level (min)
Programme/Project management or Financial markets led accreditation (beneficial)

Personal Requirements

• Excellent communication skills
• Result & Delivery driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach
• Conflict management ensuring collaborative outcomes

About Company

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected, and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.