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OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION

The Financial Crimes Office for EMEA (FCOE) in London is part of the Global Financial Crimes Division (GFCD) headquartered in New York. It works to ensure that our organisation conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our clients within the regulatory and legal framework. It is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protect clients’ assets and to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used to further financial crime.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

The FCOE Issues Management team coordinates and facilitates the identification, escalation, reporting, and remediation of Financial Crimes (“FC”) Issues across EMEA Bank and Securities entities (dual-hat). This includes any gap between current practice or approach and a policy, standard, procedure, law, or regulation relating to Financial Crimes – however identified including regulatory findings, Internal Audit, Compliance Testing, external audits, and self-identified issues.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be accountable and responsible for taking appropriate action with respect to all regional issues management requirements including but not limited to;

• Own and coordinate the escalation process and manage the timely flow of issues from escalation to closure within the region.
• GFCD Issues Management subject matter expert (SME) and compliance advocacy including support and advisory to regional compliance and business heads throughout each issue’s lifecycle.
• Weekly and monthly GFCD and FCOE Issues Management status update reporting via Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF; including tables, charts, graphs, detailed accurate status updates on all Issues across the region.
• Daily maintenance, coordination, and archival of escalations, progress updates, documentation, approvals, requests for information (RFI), data extracts, and management information (MI) in a timely manner.
• Daily Excel and database management of the global Issues Management repository, including reconciliation and quality control of secondary sources and databases for alignment and accuracy.
• Coordinate tracking and approval of control documentation for all financial crime issues in the region; working with the Risk Manager, Issue Owner, and Action Owner(s).
• Prepare and conduct regular meetings between stakeholders and departments, and proactively support other regional and global financial crime and compliance governance forums, working groups, and regulatory reporting.
• Work with regional and local management to develop SMART management action plans in a timely manner.
• Assist the Regional Head of Program Management and MLRO in any other ad-hoc reporting requirements which may arise.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Demonstrated and established skills and experience in a financial services firm, consultancy firm, regulatory agency, or law firm; within a Compliance, second line of defence, or risk management remit.

Functional / Technical Competencies:

• Strong competencies across Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), Microsoft Teams or similar functionalities, and Adobe/PDF is critical.
• Good understanding of banking, financial crime risk in banking, and the working practices of compliance governance frameworks and documentation requirements.
• Practical understanding of wider financial crime risks and controls for Sanctions, AML, and Bribery & Corruption (ABC) compliance in order to analyse facts, exercise sound judgement, proactively identify and escalate challenges, and implement solutions.
• Attention to detail and accuracy, and ability to critically review and analyse both quantitative data and qualitative reporting.
• Manage priorities and workloads effectively to deliver high quality outcomes within strict time constraints.
• Acumen for problem-solving and proactively identifying challenges and solutions.
• Willingness to collaborate with others, learn new skills, and facilitate continuous improvement of internal processes.
• Experience of developing an effective network across a range of stakeholders, including senior management
• Experience in financial crimes compliance issues management, program management, risk management, or governance and oversight.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Resilience, resourcefulness, and ability to operate with urgency to perform well in a pressurised environment.
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability and a can-do attitude.
• A proactive, motivated and collaborative approach.
• Ability to demonstrate sound judgement and apply decision-making where required.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a structured and logical approach to work.

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.