VP, Business Management

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. 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.

This is a hybrid position. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites up to four days per week and work remotely the remaining day(s). A member of our Talent Acquisition team will provide more details.

With your deep expertise and proven success using analytical thinking and iterative problem-solving, you have what it takes to strategically and tactically manage programs and processes. Whether balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders or making sound decisions using data, analysis, past experience, and a risk mindset, you will serve as a trusted advisor who routinely solves complex business problems and delivers against milestones. In the process, you will have exciting opportunities to develop your skills, expand your network, and build your career.

Responsibilities:

• Consult on business unit strategy and provide execution leadership or support

• Work with business unit heads to support: 

• Human Resources, to ensure resource strategy aligns with capabilities, workforce strategy, and location strategy

• Internal customers (employees and business units), to streamline business processes and break down barriers to align to business priorities, leverage automation, gain efficiencies, and enable an entrepreneurial business

• Site optimization, to align business unit space requirements with firm/line of business strategy

• Provide strategic guidance and advisory services to business unit heads to improve consistency and standardization

• Work with Project Management Office to align business unit strategy with annual appropriations and midterm business plan submissions

• Own and manage business unit financial plan and cost controls

• Develop strategies for the business unit to increase the company's bottom line

• Work with business unit and business unit finance team to monitor and control financial spend

• Work with financial management to create a cohesive product and service strategy along with pricing trajectory (product catalog)

• Serve as the primary point-of-contact for third-party vendor strategy

• Partner with sourcing to build and maintain comprehensive and accessible books of record for all technology suppliers and supplier delivery commitments (internal / external)

• Provide clear insight into vendor spend, maintenance renewals, and other outside costs for vendor operations to execute

• Engage in key stakeholder communications, stakeholder governance routines, leadership meetings, and management routines

• Manage the collection of business unit information for governance and management routines and ensures that deliverables are met on time

Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or Operations or Business / Management or Finance related fields.

• Equivalent work experience equally preferable.

• 8+ years of overall professional and leadership experience

• Minimum of 6 years overall experience in Finance and/or Business Management

• Preferred experience: previous work at a financial services firm

• Experience working with budgets, planning, and appropriations business cycles.

• Communication experience, both written and verbal, at a large team scale.

• Leadership experience in conducting working sessions, facilitating focus groups, driving team meetings and process improvement sessions etc.

• Strong skills in risk assessment analysis and a solid understanding of business and financial markets

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and an ability to interact with all levels of management

• Ability to analyze risk trends, identifying, and project signs of changing risk levels

• Deep understanding of respective business area and its inherent risk