Associate - Global Markets Risk and Controls

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.

The Assistant Vice President (AVP) will play an important role within the Global Markets Risk and Controls – Regulatory Risk and Surveillance team, helping the business identify, manage, and mitigate regulatory risk across securities, swaps and derivatives products.

• Partner directly with the Global Markets business to help identify, monitor, and mitigate regulatory risk
• Serve as a point of contact for Front Office stakeholders by responding to trading desk inquiries, investigating regulatory exceptions, and clearly communicating findings and recommendations.
• Design, enhance, and execute processes and controls that help prevent, detect, and remediate potential regulatory issues of non‑compliance
• Help shape practical corrective action plans and remediation strategies for identified issues.
• Contribute to high‑impact regulatory projects and initiatives across Global Markets, including new business initiatives, regulatory change implementation, and related technology enhancements.
• Drive execution by developing project and action plans, coordinating across stakeholders, providing clear status updates, and supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) for system enhancements.
• Participate in industry calls and forums, including ISDA and similar groups, preparing concise, actionable notes for internal stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in banking, financial services, or external consulting supporting financial services clients, ideally in a role involving Markets, controls, regulatory risk, or change initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and related productivity tools.
• Working knowledge of Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Derivatives products, as well as Sales and Trading functions.
• Experience with derivatives‑related banking regulations preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex regulatory topics into clear, practical guidance for business and control stakeholders.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $94K and $142K depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance‑based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

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