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Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. 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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Driving the implementation of MUFG Bank’s financial crimes risk appetite, policies and standards by managing and providing an approachable sanctions advisory hub to the EMEA region for all sanctions queries, ensuring advice is clear, informative and consistent.

• The Sanctions Program Team is responsible for the effective running and oversight of Sanctions Controls, across all jurisdictions within EMEA. The team ensure the robust management of the broader Sanctions Control Framework, in support of this they provide oversight, SME knowledge and support to other Sanctions Teams

• As part of a leading global financial group, MUFG is required to act with integrity and meet our corporate responsibilities in the fifty-plus countries and regions where we operate. Ensuring we have a comprehensive financial crime compliance program is one of our most important responsibilities. MUFG has established the Global Financial Crimes Division in New York, USA to lead the program and each region under this program has a Financial Crimes Office.

• Financial Crimes Office EMEA (FCOE) is the regional office responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protect customers’ assets and to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used to further financial crime in EMEA.

• MUFG’s financial crime compliance framework includes control processes designed to help the Bank detect, deter, and prevent financial crime as well as assess and mitigate related risks (i.e., money laundering and terrorist financing risk, sanctions risk, and bribery and corruption risk) in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws, rules, regulations, supervisory guidance, and commensurate with the Bank’s risk profile and risk appetite.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing the Sanctions Advisory team, monitoring case and query volumes and planning for future case volumes based on previous trends.

• Draft, review and approve Sanctions Policy documents for the EMEA region.

• Present key Management Information as well as sanctions regulatory updates at monthly forums, including some external panels and groups.

• Assist GFCD in the collection of customer information pertaining to sanctions data

• Managing and overseeing the London and Regional List Management processes with a focus on adhering with the Global Standards and procedures; ensuring appropriate Sanctions Risk Management and delivering efficiencies within existing processes

• Contribute to the implementation of and compliance with Global Policies, Standards and Procedures which govern MUFG’s financial crime control framework across EMEA;

• Support oversight of implementation of GFCD initiatives related to sanctions, including system rollouts and new policy/procedure implementation.

• Provide Sanctions SME knowledge, risk management and guidance for Sanctions systems and other related transformation initiatives

• Act as a risk manager and gatekeeper for List Management related activities

• Driving the timely and effective resolution of all EMEA Sanctions issues. This will include managing the ongoing governance of issues identified via the testing functions, audits, regulatory examinations, and those that are self-identified

• Act as a risk manager providing SME knowledge and guidance for Sanctions systems, providing appropriate risk management oversight and enabling related decisions

• Ensuring business readiness across systems and list change initiatives

• Oversight and daily management and oversight of Sanctions outsourced services; ensuring the achievement of KRIs and KPI’s and management of any required escalations

• Input into all relevant audits, testing reviews and risk assessments, providing sanctions input and guidance.

• Ongoing people management and development of direct reports (2), including fulfilling recruitment requirements, ensuring the team have clearly defined roles and responsibilities

• Support in EMEA transformation activities, ensuring adherence to agreed timelines, risk management and escalation of emerging issues as may be required

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.

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!

Our Culture Principles

• Client Centric

• People Focused

• Listen Up. Speak Up.

• Innovate & Simplify

• Own & Execute