Vice President - Senior Audit Manager - Corporate Investment and Regional Banking

London, England, United Kingdom

12/11/2024

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 120,000 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.

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.

Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.

EMEA Internal Audit Office (EIAO), as the Bank’s third Line of Defence, and in accordance with the Global Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Standards (IIA Standards), provides independent assurance to the Board and Executive Management on the quality and effectiveness of governance, risk management and internal controls to monitor manage and mitigate key risks to achieving the Bank’s objectives.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS

TBC

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

An exciting new opportunity has emerged for a Senior Audit Manager to join our Corporate Investment and Regional Banking audit team within the EMEA Internal Audit function. Senior Audit Managers are responsible for executing and delivering all audit engagements assigned to them by the Chief Auditor and Heads of Audit. In terms of understanding our structure Audit Directors will supervise audit teams in the scoping, planning and delivery of audit engagements and the role of the Senior Audit Manager is to support the Audit Director. The role includes some responsibilities in relation to annual planning and the risk universe.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supporting the planning of audits by the Heads of Audit and Audit Directors and assist the Heads of Audit with their respective Portfolios, risk universe sections, risk assessments and audit plans.
• Assisting with strategy and approach papers for entities and risks within their Head of Audit’s portfolio, as directed.
• To have, or to develop, specialist areas of subject matter expertise, specifically related to the Bank’s front office product/portfolio risks and associated control activities. These areas will be agreed by the Heads of Audit based on the team’s skills assessment matrix.
• Deliver continuous monitoring assignments for agreed entities under the supervision of Audit Directors.
• Maintain constructive relationships with stakeholders so that audit planning and delivery is achieved smoothly and professionally.
• Lead audit engagement to the required methodology standard. May have responsibility for multiple engagements concurrently.
• Provide ongoing feedback to the Audit Director during and at the end of each engagement; escalate any performance related issues to the Audit Director or Head of Audit. May include coaching team members.
• Support the implementation of good practice throughout the team by maintaining a strong understanding of the audit methodology.
• Display strong appreciation of risk and control in banking.
• Coordinate Management Action Plans directly with stakeholders. This may involve the testing of remediated controls and closure of issue.
• Assist the Head of Audit in preparing third party submissions for the Chief Auditor.
• Work collaboratively with all Internal Audit & Credit Exam colleagues regionally and globally.
• From time to time, may also be required to take a team role in non-‘BAU’ initiatives e.g. a working group.
  
  

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Extensive experience of working in an Audit function within the Wholesale/Investment Banking Sector, or similar Big-4 experience with relevant industry, product and operational exposure.
• Extensive experience of delivering integrated audit engagements, working closely with business audit teams.
• Front Office and operational activity audit knowledge and demonstrable understanding of key risks and corresponding audit techniques.
• Demonstrable experience of leading multiple concurrent complex audits.
  
  

Preferred:

• Experience of working in a 1st line technology role.
  
  

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential

• Relevant industry qualifications e.g. CIA, ACA, FRM
  
  

Education / Qualifications:

Essential

• Higher education or equivalent industry experience
  
  

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
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
• Strong numerical skills
  
  

Please note, MUFG operate a hybrid working model - 3 days office based (London)/2 days wfh

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.