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 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.

Summary and Overall Purpose of Job:

• One of Washington Representative office’s key function is to provide effective and timely intelligence to HO and regional executives on relevant policy, activities and pronouncements by key U.S. officials. With the evolving U.S. political landscape, the intelligence the Washington Representative Office holds extend to interests and strategy impacting that of our clients.
• This position is responsible for supporting the manager of the team by planning and implementing strategic engagements of the Washington Representative Office.
• One key factor will be to strengthen engagement with Japanese clients/external stakeholders and provide reports/background on their key interests. These stakeholders include Japanese corporate, officials and non-government organizations to gather intelligence in a timely manner.

Major Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

• Understand MUFG’s advocacy strategy and perform as a supporting function of senior management visits to Washington DC, including but not limited to preparing various meetings and responding to request from Head Office in Tokyo, Japan requests and others.

JCB Support

• Analyze Japanese Corporate Banking “JCB” business dynamically on its business culture, external environment, client portfolio and other areas
• Provide high level reports of key initiatives driven by the government that are of interest to JCB clients.
• Engage with JCB clients and participate in events hosted by various trade associations and provide a thorough readout both in Japanese and English.

Other

• Drive various global and regional projects as part of the project management team through partnership with various stakeholders including climate change and other key agenda.
• Performs other duties as assigned by Manager or by Head of JCB for the Americas.

Qualifications:

• Must be very fluent both in English & Japanese in writing, reading, speaking, and listening
• Bachelor’s degree or above in finance, economics, business administration or in a related field, or equivalent working experience is required.
• 10+ years of experience in corporate strategy and project management in global large corporations or financial institutions.
• A team player with excellent both in written and verbal communication skills and strong organizational skills.
• Excellent computer skills (including MS Office applications), analytical skills and knowledges, data management skills are required.
• Must be able to work independently under time pressure and multi-task.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $149K - $180K 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.

MUFG Benefits Summary

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.