Data and Finance Operations Governance, Vice President

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 160,000 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.

Job Summary:

This governance role will play a critical part in the management of the centralized governance function for the FCOA organization. This function will lead the coordination of key governance functions like control testing, control tower management, Issue Management, policy development, lines of defense and regulatory preparation/interactions. The role will support the Governance MD with governance activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Evaluate, enhance, design, and develop standards, polices, and procedures
• Manage internal and external reviews, audits, inspections, and investigations relative to standards, policies, and procedures
• Run compliance procedures and controls and recommend appropriate governance policies
• Advise and collaborate with stakeholders on developing standards, identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks and controlling weaknesses
• Promote awareness of standards and governance to the various stakeholders and their respective business units
• Support testing for Data Risk Horizontal Control Program
• Support Data Control Tower key activities
• Maintain inventory of mandated reporting and monitoring

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
• Advanced systems knowledge with strong capabilities in Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel (including pivots tables and VLOOKUP)
• Strong stakeholder management experience and ability to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization, and be viewed as a team player
• Ability to be a business partner who can influence and garner support from cross-functional teammates
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong Office 365 and presentation skills
• Effective use of collaboration tools, such as MS Teams and SharePoint
• Understanding of regulatory environment and compliance concerns required
• Ability to learn and adapt to new capabilities/tools based on business needs

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
• Demonstrates leadership
• Communicates effectively
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
• Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
• Collaborates with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
• Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
• Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
• Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity
• Iterative problem-solving
• Serving as a trusted advisor
• Ability to prioritize work without management direction, and provide clear and documented status updates/metrics to management
• Ability to communicate with both business/management and technical colleagues
• Exceptional organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities while adhering to established milestones and timelines
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems with minimal guidance
 

WORK EXPERIENCE
• Must have proven experience within a large, highly-matrixed organization with recent work related to standards and governance, process re-engineering, project management, and/or general process improvement
• Extensive knowledge of and demonstrated experience interpreting and applying one or more recognized, related compliance and/or risk management regulations and frameworks to develop governance
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience