Vice President, Incident Respond Lead

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) one of the worlds leading financial groups. Across the globe were 150000 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 worlds most trusted financial group its 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.

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the worlds leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history MUFG is a global network with around 2300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas Europe the Middle East and Africa Asia and Oceania and East Asia.. The group has over 150000 employees offering services including commercial banking trust banking securities credit cards consumer finance asset management and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the worlds most trusted we want to attract nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFGs global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards whilst our common values to behave with integrity and responsibility and to build a culture which is fair transparent and honest underpin 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.

MUFGs shares trade on the Tokyo Nagoya and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The groups operating companies include but are not limited to Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japans leading trust bank) Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japans largest securities firms) and MUFG Americas Holdings.

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Technology is responsible for the operation development and support of all technology across all areas of the local and international business. We ensure the IT strategy architecture solutions and service delivery are firmly aligned to business requirements and long term strategy of the group.

Technology comprises the following functions:

Architecture and Development team - which is responsible for the provision of shared services including architecture middleware new systems development quality assurance and release management.
Middle Risk and Back Office Team - which is responsible for all the applications used by these areas including the main trading system Murex.

Front Office Solutions - which provides a business-oriented focus to all technological developments that affect the trading floor.
Infrastructure team - which supports the operation of all production services voice and data networks other voice systems and desktop systems.

Programme Office and Purchasing - which is responsible for definition prioritisation and delivery of the annual investment portfolio as well as procurement and software licence management.

IT Risk and Control - which is responsible for implementing and managing all technology related controls over IT and information risk and business continuity supports the provision of disaster recovery solutions performs risk assessments and manages business recovery plans and the business recovery facility. Information Security is also the responsibility of this function.

Main Purpose of the Role:

To ensure effective management and control of information security IT and information risk for MUSI by ensuring all appropriate Security IT and common sense controls are in place that these controls are being followed and that this is evidenced across the whole business and IT department.

The role will involve liaising with the other information security functions within the MUS international business and MUFG group to ensure a consistent approach to all controls standards and policies is adopted across the organisation.

To ensure all necessary Information Security controls are in place and that an appropriate strategy to protect the firm from all Cyber external and internal threats is defined and being implemented.

To develop implement and manage compliance with appropriate IS and IT Security policies standards and procedures.

To support the relationship and associated reporting requirements between Technology and internal and external bodies e.g. auditors management committees Tokyo head office regulators (via Compliance) Operational Risk.

Key Responsibilities:

In this role you will be responsible for information/ cyber security across MUFGs banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the bank and the securities business subject to the same remit and level of authority and irrespective of the entity which employs you.

Serve as the Tier 2 escalation point within the SOC leading investigations into complex security incidents

Perform in-depth analysis of escalated events and alerts to determine root cause scope and impact

Lead and coordinate incident response efforts ensuring timely containment eradication and recovery

Act as the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Incident Response setting best practices and standards across the global SOC and IR (Incident response) functions

Contribute to the globalization of SOC and IR processes ensuring alignment and consistency across regions

Collaborate with global SOC and IR teams to harmonize incident response workflows tooling and reporting standards

Provide expert guidance to Detection Engineers to optimize detection logic and improve alert fidelity

Mentor and train junior SOC and IR analysts fostering a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence

Contribute to the development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations

Conduct quality assurance reviews of Tier 1 analysis and provide constructive feedback

Collaborate with the Detection Logic Engineering team to enhance detection capabilities and threat coverage

Support audit and regulatory engagements by providing timely and accurate responses to information requests

Liaise with cross-functional technology teams to ensure timely resolution of response tasks and escalate issues as needed

Support broader Information Security and Operational Security initiatives as required

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cyber threats attacker techniques and relevant laws regulations and best practices

Participate in out-of-hours incident response rotations as necessary

Skills and Experience:

Minimum 3 years of experience in a Senior SOC Analyst or Tier 2/3 role

Proven expertise in threat analytics incident response and cyber investigations

Strong understanding of attacker tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) across diverse environments

Familiarity with industry-standard incident response frameworks (e.g. NIST SANS)

Experience with both network-based and host-based threat detection and analysis

Proficiency in writing detection queries (Splunk preferred) and working with SIEM/EDR/SOAR tools

Solid understanding of operating systems networking and security infrastructure

At least 5 years of experience in Information Security within the financial services sector

Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to present complex issues clearly to stakeholders

Knowledge of international security standards and control frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001 NIST CSF)

Personal Requirements:

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Results-driven with a strong sense of accountability and urgency.

Proactive structured and logical approach to problem-solving.

Strong decision-making skills and sound judgment under pressure.

Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.

High attention to detail and accuracy.

Calm and composed under pressure with a collaborative mindset.

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age sex gender sexual orientation disability pregnancy and maternity race gender reassignment religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.