Operations Risk and Control, Assistant Vice President

Overview

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. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

• Issue Management
  • Assist with the support remediation of gaps via remediation plans that adhere to issues management mandates: timely issue and corrective action submission, accurate root cause identification, corrective action monitoring, on time closure, no failed validations, and no repeat issue.
  • Assist and participate in the identification of issues and partner with stakeholders in opening issues (Audit/Compliance/Management Identified).
  • Acquire necessary management approvals.
  • Project manage the Issue/Action Plans for key issues (e.g., Registration of EUCs for MUSA Operations, Record Retention).
  • Maintain open page records (progress status updates, link issues to risk and controls, losses, etc.).
• Risk Assessments
  • Assist with the execution of front‑line risk assessment activities (ad hoc risk/control review, all components of the Risk and Control Self‑Assessments (RCSA), fraud assessments, third‑party vendor assessments, scenario analysis, monthly risk reporting).
  • Understand risk taxonomy, inherent risk rationales, proper control descriptions, Basel risk categories.
• Control Testing
  • Support control testing team by gathering necessary samples needed to test controls.
  • Rewrite controls to meet control description requirement.
• Metrics & Reporting
  • Prepare risk reporting, risk analysis and risk mitigation recommendations, including control environment performance and risk management plans for critical issues.
  • Prepare key risk management reporting such as Risk Management Business Review (M ), risk metric reporting, issue management reporting.
  • Assist with creation/tacking/management of MUSA Operations SLA metrics between front office and MUSA Operations.
  • Assist with monthly trigger event reporting and risk event losses identification/reporting/track.
  • Monitor and evaluate emerging risk, internal operational trends, and external risk events for potential impact to control environment.
• Audit/Compliance
  • Assist in preparation/maintenance/tracking of audit/compliance calendar.
  • Mitigate audit issues and draft management action plans.
• Other
  • Support management to generate various metrics reports for senior management and board level committees.
  • Assist in sustaining the operational risk and control framework and ensuring MUSA Operations is aligned with bank policies.

• 2‑5 years of demonstrated experience with Operations Risk and Control design, including RCSA.
• Bachelor’s degree required in risk management, finance, business, information systems, or equivalent field.
• Demonstrated analytical, critical thinking, and problem‑solving capabilities with an iterative approach to identifying solutions and driving decisions.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, work independently with limited oversight, and deliver high‑quality results from inception to completion.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present, influence, and serve as a trusted advisor across multiple disciplines.
• Effective listening skills with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and continuously learn through hands‑on experience.
• Strong organizational and conceptual skills, with attention to…