Head of Data Governance - Financial Crime Risk & Core Compliance

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MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the largest financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards. Behaving with integrity and responsibility, underpinned by a desire to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, drives everything that we do.

We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long‑term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

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The Compliance department, covering both Financial Crime and Core Compliance activities, within MUFG works to ensure that our organization conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our clients within the regulatory and legal framework. It is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protect clients’ assets and to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used for further financial crime.

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Reporting to the Head of FCOE Operations the role holder will adopt/develop and implement data governance strategy, frameworks, policies and standards to ensure a high level of data quality, with specific focus on financial crime and core compliance risks.

This leadership role involves managing data-related risks, creating/maintaining data dictionaries, and fostering a culture of data literacy across Compliance/MUFG. In collaboration with various internal stakeholders, the role holder will collaborate with EMEA Systems Office (ESO), wider GFCD/Compliance stakeholders to ensure data is a trusted asset for decision-making and changes made are accurately assessed and approved, supporting both run the bank and change the bank activities.

This position requires strong leadership, a knowledge of financial crime and compliance frameworks, and expertise in data governance within highly regulated environments.

This role holder will work closely with the EMEA ECO/FCOE teams, EMEA Systems Office (ESO); EMEA Planning Department (EPD) and European Operations Division (EOD) as well as Global GFCD teams to improve communication and ensure data quality is paramount.

This role covers both Bank and Securities business lines.

Main responsibilities of the role/Data Governance team include:

• Strategy and leadership :
  Define and/or implement the data governance strategy, collaborating with required country/regional/global counterparts, leading a regional DG team with oversight of DG Compliance activities including AML, Sanctions, ABC, Trade Surveillance etc.

• G…