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Overview of the Department/Section:
MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia.. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.
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Product Control (PRO) plays a key role in both supporting and controlling the revenue generating functions of the Securities and Banking Divisions of MUFG in the EMEA region and consists of three technical teams: Client and Cross Function, Line Product Control and Valuations Control. The department’s key responsibilities include:
- P&L reporting, attribution & commentary
- Analysis of historical financials, variance explanations, forecast with risks and opportunities to current plan, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Independent price verification
- Reserving methodologies, including provisions, valuation adjustments and prudential capital reserves
- Leading/Implementing key firm-wide valuation projects
- Ensuring the correct controls and processes are in place to manage new and existing products
- Participate in projects & process optimization: creating systems & workflow efficiency and leveraging developments in technology (BI, AI, RPA)
The team covers the full suite of products traded by the organisation including Core Banking products (loans, facilities, deposits etc), Interest Rates, FX, Credit, Equity and Hybrids, including vanilla and exotics portfolios.
The department is central to the business and other support departments and is significantly involved with major systems implementations programmes. This may involve business process re-engineering and developing new processes entirely as well as enhancing current P&L and valuation methodologies.
Main Purpose of the Role :
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the PRO department within our client and cross functional data and analytics team that centralises and streamlines key data and reporting outputs across a combined CIB and markets team.
The successful candidate will support the team’s objectives by playing a key role in:
- The day to day production, validation and analysis of key data and outputs across our CIB and markets businesses;
- Defining and delivering enhancements to the overall data quality and control framework;
- Supporting FP&A business partners, front office relationship managers and senior management with adhoc analysis and preparation of MI.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with business management, front office relationship managers, FP&A business partners and technology to develop and deliver a suite of self-service data and Management Information (MI) across the EMEA CIB and International Markets Businesses;
- Preparation and review of core data inputs (regular management accounting adjustments, client allocations) that feed core PRO team processes and reporting outputs;
- Preparation of periodic and ad hoc analysis and presentation materials to support senior management decision making;
- Delivery of core MI outputs and data loads into central self-service toolsets, ensuring that business partners and key business stakeholders have access to accurate data on a timely basis;
- Support the development and maintenance of a data quality control framework and associated production processes for core datasets (including, but not limited to, client analytics, expenses and headcount data);
- Actively contribute to streamlining of processes and improvement in data quality, through identification of inconsistent and duplicative tasks and data quality control gaps;
- Support FP&A Business Partners to embed Client driven KPIs and budgets into financial and strategic business plans.
Skills and Experience:
- Relevant experience in Financial reporting or analysis roles (essential)
- CFA, ACA or CIMA qualification (beneficial)
- Previous experience in managing a team (beneficial)
- Experience of working with stakeholders of all levels (essential)
- Experience of working with Microsoft Excel (essential)
- Experience with BI/reporting/planning tools (essential)
Personal Requirements:
- Excellent communication skills
- Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
- A proactive, motivated approach.
- The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
- Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
- A structured and logical approach to work
- Strong problem solving skills
- A creative and innovative approach to work
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical/numerical 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.
