Sanctions Customer Due Diligence, Analyst

Sanctions Customer Due Diligence Analyst – MUFG

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.

This individual will serve as an analyst on the Relationship Review Unit within the Global Sanctions Advisory discipline of the Global Sanctions Compliance Department (GSCD), conducting sanctions customer due diligence (CDD) reviews for MUFG customers globally. The analyst will work with regional financial crimes offices, First Line of Defense teams in the Americas, and other teams within Global Sanctions Advisory to review customers’ sanctions exposure and document an analysis of the customer’s risk to the bank.

• Perform sanctions due diligence reviews on prospective and existing customers at time of onboarding, periodic KYC review, or ad‑hoc KYC review.
• Review customer exposure against applicable sanctions regulations and MUFG policies.
• Draw and document informed conclusions based on applicable sanctions risks.
• Understand and interpret sanctions regulations and monitor changes to such regulations.
• Coordinate with regional financial crimes offices and First Line of Defense teams on sanctions CDD reviews and initiatives.
• Collaborate with other teams within Global Sanctions Advisory to conduct investigations into complex fact patterns and customers presenting heightened sanctions risks.

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in international relations, foreign policy, political science, or economics.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Interest in foreign policy and international relations landscape.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently to deliver results.
• Ability to conduct complex investigations and draft write‑ups to explain to senior team members.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $67,000 to $80,000 depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for discretionary performance‑based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Our Total Rewards program provides a competitive benefits package—including health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance, training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws. The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for personnel so classified.

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