AVP, Data Program Manager

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG has a global network with 1,100 offices in over 40 countries. The Group has over 140,000 employees, offering services including corporate banking, commercial banking, retail banking, wealth management, investment banking, capital markets, personal and corporate trust, and transaction banking.

The Group’s operating companies include Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (Japan’s leading trust bank), and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest securities firms.

The Project Promotion team is part of the IT Planning, Reporting and Administration department (IPR). The role of the IPR department is to ensure communication and liaison with Head Office (HO) in Tokyo, for both Bank and Securities, as well as accountability for EMEA Technology-wide reporting, management of resourcing processes, management of asset processes and administration of wider planning processes including annual budget planning.

The Data Portfolio is part of the Project Promotion team which delivers EMEA and global projects within the planned schedule and budget.

2-3 Consultants / Contractors as part of the wider project delivery team.

• The successful candidate will be part of the Data Portfolio Change function, reporting into the Portfolio Head and its corresponding delegate on a regular basis.
• The Program Manager is responsible across each program/project for ensuring quality, outcomes, timelines and cost requirements are met. Among other Project Management tasks, the candidate will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of RAID logs, Business Justification documents, and Status reporting activities.
• The Program Manager will need to have extensive experience in Financial Institutions. Strong communication and interpersonal skills is a must, and candidates must have a well-organized structured approach to managing medium to large projects and work well with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and consultants.
• To engage key staff in Business and Technology team (as well as other key stakeholders from other departments) who are impacted by the portfolio of investment and (in-scope) expense projects.
• To provide accurate, and concise, point-in-time reporting to all stakeholders, generated from golden source tools including the General Ledger, and PPM (Portfolio, Program, Project Management) tools.

• Co-ordination across projects / work streams and across wider program to ensure synergies are identified and optimized
• Partner with key stakeholders across the business, technology and external vendors, understand external regulatory expectations and industry standards, where appropriate
• Oversee analysis / output and form clear recommendations and proposals that are based on sound business rationale ensuring consensus and collaboration with functional partners required to opine or sign off
• Run and manage steering committees (if required), working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against planned timelines.
• Be a trusted partner functional stakeholders and Planning department ensuring updates, issues and…