Global Financial Crimes Compliance Testing, Assistant Vice President

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.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

• Responsible for supporting the Global Compliance Testing function by driving central governance of testing activities, standards, procedures, training, quality assurance, leveraging regional structures and best practices to perform deep dives and targeted risk‑based thematic reviews of Financial Crimes Compliance (AML, Sanctions, ABC) and Core Compliance processes globally with an emphasis on the design adequacy and operational effectiveness of measures (controls) taken to monitor and mitigate applicable risk.
• Play a key role in the development and enhancements to testing methodology, standards and procedures, Annual Test Plan, testing tools and training.
• Address inquiries from Global and Regional Testing Units, regarding the requirements of the testing standard and procedure.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to understand business and functional requirements and support management in developing test plans, scripts, procedures, and sampling methodologies that incorporate regulatory expectations, industry developments, lessons learned from regulatory findings and internally identified issues by compliance testing and internal audit.
• Coordinate with Global and Regional Testing units to identify use cases for the use of artificial intelligence within the execution of testing, as well as testing of processes utilizing artificial intelligence.
• Play a leading role in financial crimes and/or core compliance related projects and engage with global and regional compliance management in the implementation of a coordinated, consistent, and risk‑based testing program.
• Execute quality control processes to drive adherence to Global Testing Standards.
• Apply in-depth subject matter and industry expertise in reviewing reports summarizing the objectives, scope, findings and conclusions of completed testing.
• Monitor developments, such as changes in the regulatory environment, financial crime/core compliance risks and industry developments which may necessitate ad‑hoc testing.
• Support general compliance activities and other duties, including special projects as assigned.

• 3+ years of relevant experience, including experience in the financial crimes compliance and/or core compliance area of a global bank, consulting firm, or regulatory agency.
• Experience with performing compliance testing, quality control/assurance processes or internal/external audits preferred.
• Knowledge of financial crimes compliance and/or core compliance laws and regulations.
• Excellent judgment and analytical skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite of products, including Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience in working in diverse teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• BA/BS Degree required; CPA, and/or CAMS a plus.
• Some travel may be required, domestic and international.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $88,000 to $109,000 depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance‑based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with…