Commercial Lending Data & Process Steward, Vice President

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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.

Position Summary

We are on an exciting journey to improve the quality and accessibility of our data to empower business users to make nimble meaningful business decisions utilizing data. To accomplish this, we are looking to hire an individual with deep commercial lending business process and operations knowledge. The ideal candidate will have significant business/operations knowledge on how deals are originated, booked, and serviced. This role is ideal for a seasoned commercial lending professional who has deep knowledge of loan origination, underwriting, servicing, and portfolio management—and who is motivated to improve the quality and usability of the data that supports those processes.

This is not a technical or analytics role. The selected candidate will act as a business subject matter expert, partnering with the front office and operations teams to improve the clarity, controls, and quality of our commercial lending data.

This role is expected to act as the team lead or manager for a team of 3 – 7 individuals. Please note this role can also be filled at the AVP or Analyst level for the right candidate, without team lead or manager expectations

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the business steward and point of accountability for critical data elements across the commercial lending domain (e.g., borrower, facility, collateral, pricing, covenants, exposure)

• Define and maintain clear business definitions, usage rules, and ownership for commercial loan data

• Ensure data reflects the true business intent and operating reality of commercial lending products and processes

• Identify where process gaps, manual workarounds, or inconsistent practices lead to data quality issues

• Partner with business and operations teams to improve upstream processes that produce loan data

• Help prioritize and resolve data issues that impact reporting, client experience, risk management, or regulatory obligations

• Translate business requirements and pain points into clear, actionable guidance for downstream consumers of loan data

• Participate in data governance forums related to commercial lending

• Support data quality monitoring, root‑cause analysis, and issue remediation efforts

• Improve transparency and confidence in how commercial loan data is sourced, defined, and used across the organization

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in commercial lending, such as origination, underwriting, credit administration, loan operations, portfolio management, or commercial credit risk

• Strong, hands‑on knowledge of the end‑to‑end commercial loan lifecycle and related processes

• Ability to explain complex lending concepts clearly to both business and non‑business audiences

• Strong collaboration, influence, and problem‑solving skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of accountability

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to data quality, process improvement, or control environments (formal or informal)

• Comfort working across teams and driving change without direct authority

• Curiosity and passion for improving how business data is created and used

• Team lead or people management experience preferred

What this role is not

• Not a data engineering, analytics, or technical role

• No prior data experience or data background is required

• No coding, modeling, or system development responsibilities

• No requirement for formal data management experience

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