Vice President, Risk & Controls Market Operations
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count
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.
First Line Risk & Control Team
First Line Risk & Control Team is part of the Operations Risk & Control pillar within the EMEA Operations division. Its purpose is to equip the Product Service pillars in Operations with a dedicated pre-emptive first line control function which will enable Operations to meet internal and external (including regulatory) obligations. Duties include providing dedicated risk & control oversight to product service pillars and executing the central control assurance function by driving the control agenda sponsoring control themes across pillars delivering control MI / risk reporting owning control framework.
Main Purpose of the Role
Risk & Control Specialist
In this role you will be supporting the Product channel ensuring effective control oversight of Operations processing activities through pre-emptive monitoring reconciliation and continuous risk assessment. Proactively identify potential risks by monitoring and analysing indicators trends and emerging issues. Develop appropriate response plans. Work with cross-functional teams to establish best practices in risk management and integrate them into business operations.
- Focus of this role will be to have good BAU knowledge and oversight to be able to provide Operational Control Oversight for key KRIs and KPIs for Regional Operations Product Services processing areas have a strong understanding of reconciliation first principles to facilitate effective identification of key risk and thematic issues. Leverage reconciliation expertise to play an active role in R&C risk analysis and mitigation.
- Have a good understanding of Securities and Derivative trades life cycle events collateral funding for Derivative and Securities products and understanding of operational requirement to support Settlement pre-matching for Fixed Income and equity products.
Key Responsibilities
- Establishment and maintenance of the 1st line control framework (key controls) which are required to mitigate against operational failure within the product channel.
- Supporting the product channel to demonstrate / evidence that it is in control through: Ensure completeness of the self identified issue (SII) population
- Preparing the RAF (Risk Assessment Framework) for the Product Channel and discussing / agreeing content with the department head Attesting to key controls on a periodic basis
- Establishment measurement monitoring and reporting of key risk and performance indicators for the product channel (e.g. ORM)
- Maintenance of the departments RCSA (Risk Control Self-Assessment)
- Management and resolution of queries relating to control gaps / failures within the unit
- Control Assurance Testing and Reconciliation
- Reduce risk through detailed reconciliation in the following areas:
- i. Execution of self-inspections (inspection and countermeasure)
- ii. Ensuring SOX testing is performed and its accuracy
- iii. Execution of the RCSA controls testing.
- Incident Management
- Management of Audit Profile
- Procedure and Policy Management
- Execution of BAU and Internal control activities
Work Experience:
- Strong Product knowledge and front to back process understanding of Investment Banking flows
- Proven track record of planning executing and reporting on control testing programmes ensuring timely completion and compliance
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements and internal audit standards ensuring adherence to compliance obligations
- Demonstrable stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrable time management skill
- Proven ability to lead and motivate others including across teams
Skills and Experience
Functional / Technical Competencies:
Essential
- Strong analytical capability to perform risk assessments from an operational perspective
- Understanding of the general Operational process flow
- Proficiency in tools like Excel
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Deep understanding of risk frameworks with control testing governance and remediation.
PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Results driven with a strong sense of accountability
- A proactive motivated approach.
- The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
- Strong decision making skills the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
- A structured and logical approach to work
- Strong problem solving skills
- A creative and innovative approach to work
- The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- A calm approach with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills
This advert will close 1st December 2025
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.
Required Experience:
Exec
Key Skills
- Economics
- Internal Audit
- SQL
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Leadership skills
- Oversight
- Business partner
- AVP
- Requlatory agencies
- Finance
- Accounting
- Potifolio
- Project Management
- Operational Risk
About Company
MUFG is a leading global financial group backed by 2,700 locations in over 50 countries and regions, offering comprehensive and tailored financial solutions to our clients worldwide.
