Flod CO Strategic Projects, AVP

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.

Purpose of the Role

To lead all the support functions within KYCD which are critical to provide sustainability to MOD KYC which includes the following key focus, to oversee:

• KYC Technology Strategy,

• KYC Processes and Operations, Continuous Improvement,

• KYC Data & Vendor Management,

• KYC MI and Reporting,

• KYC Client Strategy,

• KYC Audit and Regulatory,

Primary Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, development, delivery of best-in-class Know Your Customer (KYC) programs, policies and practices for FLoD CO.

• Drive KYC program enhancements by working collaboratively with all members of the program.

• Provide strategic project support, monitoring project progress, and ensuring completion within the acceptable quality and time thresholds.

• Work collaboratively across functional teams within FLoD CO to ensure effective and efficient operations.

• Identify opportunities for innovation with technology and Lead/support Technology Vendor evaluations in the KYC tech space.

• Coordinating with global cross-function teams to identify, prioritize and facilitate execution of potential enhancements to projects/overall program.

• Working closely with relevant internal stakeholders to develop procedures and guidelines to improve KYC for onboarding of new clients, develop SLA and clear definitions for business and client to minimize communications with clients and develop straight through processes.

• Applying a structured methodology to assigned project (tech and non-tech) engagements, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence, Risk, Compliance and enterprise-wide technical program initiatives.

• Perform gap analysis on existing policies, process and technology capabilities and making recommendations for improvements.

• Suggest improvements to the KYC process that strengthen the process while maintaining efficiency.

• Responsible for composing and writing detailed business requirements for KYC related projects, recommendations, and reports for presentation to management.

• Apply data analytics and visualization with tools like PowerBI/ Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio to draw insights and enable data driven decisions.

• Create reports, presentation material, and communications for senior stakeholders and committees.

• Build business cases that support decisions to ensure optimal solutions that cater to both business and financial requirements.

• Keeping abreast of regulatory changes, new regulations and internal policy changes in order to further identify new key developments & risk areas.

• Contribute thought leadership and analytical rigor to identify operational and compliance issues, develop solutions, and drive decision making and support operations by bringing leading practices and modern technology solutions to FLoD CO Operations

Requirements:

• Requires 4-year university degree.

• Requires 5-7 years of experience in financial services in Financial Crimes Compliance, either within a commercial banking enterprise or Big 4 management consulting organization

• 5 + years of KYC, Customer Due Diligence, Customer Screening (Adverse Media & PEP) subject matter /program experience

• Strong proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power Automate, Visio)

• Big 4 or top tier management consulting/advisory experience strongly preferred.

• ACAMS certification is a plus.

• Prior experience with any of the following Onboarding and Screening Pl