Assistant Vice President - Financial Crime Transformation Programme

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OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION

The Financial Crimes Office for EMEA (FCOE) in London is part of the Global Financial Crimes Division (GFCD) headquartered in New York. It works to ensure that our organisation conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our clients within the regulatory and legal framework. It is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protect clients’ assets and to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used to further financial crime.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Financial Crimes Office for EMEA has established a Transformation team within the Operations department to help support the delivery of key Financial Crimes initiatives.

The role will involve the creation and execution of action plans to implement key initiatives, enhance efficiency as well as close issues and remediate gaps. The role is required to help support the delivery of the new and ongoing change initiatives across the Financial Crimes portfolio. Covering Sanctions, AML and ABC, the role involves close working relationship with the Regional and Global Financial Crimes teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting Financial Crimes teams deliver key projects across MUFG entities and locations globally.

Essentially working with either the FCOE Sanctions, AML or ABC teams to actively progress projects and deliverables to ultimately implement and embed the new initiatives for Financial Crimes.

You are responsible for:

• Identify and manage the delivery of plans / actions / tasks in order to implement improvements to financial crimes procedures or processes.
• Document/update plans, progress, meetings and escalations
• Collaborating with various teams across Financial Crimes working with action owners on the implementation of new controls / uplift.
• Assist managing the delivery of varied projects and strategic initiatives.
• Manage and escalate risks or issues.
• Managing and assisting action owners in developing plans, in consultation with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Provide the necessary status updates and reporting consistent with agreed timelines.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Relevant financial crime experience in a financial services firm, consultancy firm, regulatory agency or law firm

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential

• Broad understanding of banking
• Understanding of financial crimes risk and working practices
• Understanding of risk, compliance and related controls
• Robust stakeholder management and reporting experience
• Experience of delivering and managing Projects / Workstreams
• Subject Matter Expertise in one or more Financial Crime area
• Excellent communication

Preferred:

• Financial Crime controls (processes) knowledge/experience
• Experience of working with multi-jurisdictional stakeholders and teams

Education / Qualifications:

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• Share the workload, team player and help the team grow its profile and reputation
• A proactive, motivated approach
• Ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• Passionate about Financial Crimes
• Ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly with tight deadlines by communicating with stakeholders and the team
• A calm diplomatic approach and measured communication, with the ability to prioritise and communicate efficiently
• Excellent time management
• A structured and logical approach to work and strong problem solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

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.