Vice President, Business Unit Risk & Control Manager - Cybersecurity

Posted:
1/4/2026, 7:53:13 PM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

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.

MUFG  (Mitsubishi  UFJ  Financial  Group)  is  one  of  the  world's  leading  financial  groups.  Headquartered  in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The  group  has  over  150,000  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 vision to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture  and  retain  the  most  talented  individuals  in  the  market.  The  size  and  range  of  MUFG's  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.

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

The role is to partner with the Risk, Security and Control Pillar within the EMEA Tec function to ensure that risks and controls are effectively managed. The role will involve working with management to ensure that controls are adequately understood and documented, issues are raised, tracked and remediated. This role will also provide support to the team when undergoing internal and external audits, ensuring requests are responded to completely and accurately and that issues are correct and owned by the right individuals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Working with control owners, lines of defence and risk management functions to manage risk, controls, issues and actions
  • Help risk and control owners identify and document significant risks that require escalation and remediation
  • Help define meaningful risk indicators and dashboards to allow real time assessment of control performance. Assist in the delivery of these key risk indicators.
  • Working with management, product owners and control owners to deliver clear concise reporting to senior management, boards and executive committees.
  • Identify and implement data sources to support the delivery of key risk indicators and dashboards
  • Provide assistance in the development of management action plans in response to audit and self-identified issues.
  • Track the delivery and execution of remedial actions and provide early identification where remedial actions are not progressing or need to be changed to mitigate risks.
  • Validate the effective closure of key audit and self-identified issues prior to closure and submission to internal audit.
  • Support any regulatory engagements and reviews.
  • Be the interface to Head Office and other risk and control functions to ensure that requirements are being met.
  • Drive risk and control culture improvements and help improve the understanding and focus on key risk and control topics.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Expert level understanding of IT controls, control frameworks (e.g. COBIT, NIST,CRI) and key technology risks impacting financial services
  • Background in 1LOD risk and controls, audit or 2LOD in a technology environment is required.
  • Extensive experience of cybersecurity with a strong understand of Identify and Access Management processes and controls is also highly beneficial.
  • Strong background in regulations with specific background in DORA, SOX and other regulatory framework and requirements with an impact on Banking
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills. Ability to influence and challenge senior management.
  • Excellent written communication with experience of developing and presenting materials to senior and executive management.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Self-motivated and proactive
  • Balance risk with opportunity and ability to prioritise
  • Ability to learn new technologies and tooling particularly in relation to data analytics
  • Organised and results focused
  • Excellent and innovative communicator with the ability to use data to simplify complex concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrate global perspective
  • Collaborate and build partnerships with technical and non-technical members
  • Think strategically, with structured and logical approach to work
  • Able to work to tight deadlines
  • Logical and objective even under pressure
  • Good understanding of financial technologies and the banking environment
  • Good understanding of technology control frameworks and regulations
  • Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
  • Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
  • Meticulous attention to detail.

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.