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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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.

Qualifications

General

• Leading a team of GFCD QA Reviewers performing QA reviews of financial crimes controls in MUFG branches in the Americas region, to determine whether the control outputs meet the established quality objectives set out within the Global FCC QA Methodology.

• Maintaining and approving written QA operating manuals for conducting QA reviews in accordance with the Global FCC QA Methodology.

• Supporting the development and maintenance of the financial crimes controls to drive adherence to the Global FCC QA Methodology.

• Supporting the drive for central coordination, governance, and reporting, leveraging regional structures and best practices of GFCD.

• Reviewing QA reports summarizing the objectives and purpose, scope, QA review methods, limitations and a consolidation of the QA results for distribution to senior management within GFCD to provide an overview of the financial crime control effectiveness and facilitating the periodic reporting to the appropriate regional governing bodies.

• Escalating errors and exceptions identified during QA reviews in accordance with the Global FCC Escalation and Issues Management Standard and the validation of action plans to address QA findings.

• Coordinating with Regional Issues Management to monitor and track the resolution of QA identified issues and action plans.

• Establishing appropriate QA management routines and ensuring proper awareness of QA review results through the reporting of QA related KPIs and KRIs.

• Managing the relationship with the Americas Regional Financial Crime Office.

• Reviewing, approving and submitting MI to the Americas Regional Financial Crime Office and local Process Owners.

• Escalating QA challenges to the Head of GFCD QA and, if applicable, the Americas Regional Financial Crime Office.

• Supporting general compliance activities and other duties, including special projects as assigned.

• Acting as the primary interface with Americas regulators, auditors, testing and other assurance bodies on QA matters.

Governance

• Establishing and chairing the Regional QA Working Groups.

• Escalating matters from the Regional QA Working Groups to the Regional Financial Crime Office and Regional Heads of ABC, AML, and Sanctions, Regional Financial Crimes Management Forum (RFCMF), and Global QA Working Groups.

• Presenting at governance meetings on an ad hoc basis.

• Producing and circulating the supporting material and minutes for the Regional QA Working Groups.

• Supporting testing, audit and exams of the Americas Quality Assurance program including walkthroughs, responses to requests and observations.

Advisory

• Provision of general QA advice to all QA functions and escalating as and when appropriate.

• Analysing how the advice might contribute to improving the Global FCC QA Methodology or supporting document templates.

• Training of QA functions across Americas, including MGS GFCD QA, to use the QA tools and documents.

Oversight

• Reviewing QA MI to identify themes, trends or significant variances.

• Assessing the effectiveness of QA functions in Americas.

• Execution of periodic consistency reviews of QA executed by MGS GFCD QA.

• Review, approval and submission of MI to the Americas Regional Financial Crime Office and Process Owners.

• Approval and distribution of the finalized QA tools and documents to be used by the QA function across the region.

• Coordination with Regional Issues Management to monitor and track the resolution of all QA identified issues and action plans.

Execution

• Overseeing the deployment over regional GFCD-owned FC controls to QA functions across the region including offshore / outsourced provider.

• Implementation of a coordinated, consistent and risk-based AML, ABC, KYC and Sanctions QA program.

• Articulating and establishing the allocation of roles and responsibilities among QA Reviewers in accordance with the Global FCC QA Methodology.

• Overseeing communication of the results of the QA reviews relating to financial crimes controls to the appropriate parties and confirming that they are addressed in a timely manner.

• Planning, designing, scoping, executing, escalating and reporting QA reviews as a part of the overall QA cycle in accordance with the Global FCC QA Methodology.

The role holder will be responsible for managing team members, including prioritizing workloads, training, coaching, and career development.

In addition to the responsibilities listed, as a member of the GFCD QA senior leadership team, it is expected that the role holder will significantly contribute to the GFCD QA team development. This includes improving internal controls, streamlining processes, and finding better ways of doing things across the portfolio.

Importantly, it includes developing initiatives to maintain team morale and sustain motivation across the function. The role holder will be a role model through leading by example and may need to support more junior members through coaching and mentoring.

Functional / Technical Competencies:

• Knowledge of:

• QA concepts, including sampling, stratification, QA testing, and QA MI.

• Governance concepts, including accountability, decision making, and challenge.

• Oversight and assurance concepts, including testing approaches, monitoring, and sources of assurance.

• Proven excellence in execution in complex and demanding situations.

• Collaborative with strong interpersonal communication skills.

• Systemic thinker across enterprise.

• Process oriented couple with a strong ability to develop appropriate program enhancing strategies.

• Detail-oriented and organized execution.

• Executive level presentation skills.

• An enterprise risk management perspective.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• The ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, including MUFG staff, management, directors and regulators.

Experience

• 7 plus years of financial industry and compliance experience, preferably within a global organization in a role directly involved with driving change, program enhancement and critical program evaluation.

• Experience in:

• Leading a team with direct reports.

• FCC QA or equivalent function.

• FCC controls oversight.

• FCC technical advice provision.

• Experience interacting with financial crime program senior leadership and compliance subject matter experts.

• Thorough understanding of an effective financial crimes risk management framework.

• Experience in:

• Financial crime compliance control design, control evaluation, testing or auditing.

• Interfacing with banking regulators and enforcement staff.

Education & Requirements

• Degree or equivalent industry standard qualification

• Excellent communication skills.

• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.

• A proactive, motivated approach.

• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize 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.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• 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 pressurized environment.

• Strong numerical skills.

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.

• A confident approach, with the ability to provide clear direction to your team.

• Excellent managerial/leadership experience.

• The ability to lead a high performing team.

• A strategic approach, with the ability to lead and motivate your team.

• The ability to articulate and implement the vision/strategy for the Americas GFCD QA department

The typical base pay range for this role is between $180k-$240k 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. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

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We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!

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• Client Centric

• People Focused

• Listen Up. Speak Up.

• Innovate & Simplify

• Own & Execute