Risk Management. 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.

In this role you will focus on implementing frameworks designed to identify, evaluate, and manage operations-related risks and controls across the company or a particular business or function. Responsibilities include integrating that framework with business operations and keeping key stakeholders across the organization informed regarding their control environment; leading or supporting various programs, including Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA), process, risk, and control, projects risk management, and other risk policies, standards, and processes.

As part of an effective risk and control framework, Operations for the Americas (OPE) documents and executes risk and control assessments across processes related to Operations. There is a comprehensive coverage and joint accountability model with Technology that promotes early identification and assessment of operational and technology risk, effective design and evaluation of controls, and sustainable solutions to mitigate operational and technology risk.

• Drive implementation and sustainment of operational control framework
• Evaluate and benchmark process execution against outstanding standards
• Manage the execution of Operations controls self-assurance and risk assessment activities (ad hoc controls review, risk and control self-assessments (RCSA)) and independent risk and audit activities as needed)
• Drive control design for Operations controls and consult with Operations partners in support of their commitments to align with all applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies and procedures
• Perform review and challenge of Operations controls and/or main functionality undergoing critical technological changes in partnership with Operations and Technology during projects life cycle.
• Drive risk culture; influence self-identification and disclosure of control self-assurance gaps
• Ensure gaps are addressed via remediation plans that adhere to issues management mandates: timely issue and corrective action submission, accurate root cause identification, corrective action monitoring, on time closure, no failed validations, and no repeat issue
• Monitor and evaluate emerging risk, internal operational trends, and external risk events for potential impact to control environment, and third-party vendor engagements monitoring
• Prepare risk analysis and risk mitigation recommendations
• Support risk governance by ensuring our control environment performance is reported and has risk management plans in place
• Support the preparation of risk and controls governance materials as needed
• Manage key risk metric creation for inherent risks in accordance to the enterprise risk appetite, and investigate when metric breaches occur

• 7+ years of experience in operational risk management, (Includes operations, operational risk management, compliance, audit, and third party risk management), or a combination thereof within banking, or other highly regulated environment.
• Knowledge in Payments areas including, but not limited to:
  Wires, ACH, Check, and Fraud.
• Knowledge of critical domestic and international banking regulations (BSA/AML, Dodd Frank, USA Patriot Act and OFAC, Nacha…