Posted:
9/5/2024, 9:15:31 PM
Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Business & Strategy
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
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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.
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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 vison 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.
MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, MUFG Bank Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.
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The role will report into the Operations Portfolio Manager. The role and EMEA Operations team manage projects across the EMEA region with regular liaison with Tokyo/ Head Office. Projects/ changes include: Transaction Processing, Middle Office, Payments & Clearing, Regulatory Reporting/ Change, Operational Control, Optimisation, Operational Planning and Business Management.
NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS
circa 5
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
MUFG are looking for a proven Senior Programme Manager with extensive Corporate Banking Operations experience mainly in payments to lead a large programme of projects across MUFG Bank EMEA and to MUFG Securities.
The role holder will support the Operations Portfolio Lead who has overarching responsibility for the governance, stakeholder management, financials and ultimately successful delivery of ALL projects within the Operations change portfolio. You will ensure that all projects operate within the governance framework; and that they each undertake rigorous analysis and planning; manage scope, budget (including maintaining a realistic resource profile) and deliver accurate status reporting; and robustly manage and articulate project risks and issues. Clearly articulating strategic imperatives and benefits of the projects being undertaken and taking relevant considerations from the broader EMEA region into account where necessary.
You will be responsible for aiding in and producing MI, C-suite papers where appropriate for your programme.
Constantly engaging with the Accountable Executive (Head of Operations in EMEA) and Project Sponsors (to drive through change within the specified governance framework and ensure that change is fully adopted and integrated into MUFG. You will lead confidently, accurately, clearly and robustly the Programme Delivery Board(s) chaired by the AE and other EMEA and Japan executives.
You will manage the following matters and have authority for building a team of high-quality professionals that will achieve the objectives set by the Head of Operations in delivering the agreed outcomes. You will be responsible for leading the Annual budget process for your programme – engaging with all relevant stakeholders in EMEA Operations and work with Technology in EMEA and Head Office to prepare the submission.
The successful candidate will need extensive experience in Banking, specifically in relation to payments processing, standardisation, reconciliations, payments regulation, fraud, anti-money laundering, financial crime systems.
It will be critical to maintain and enhance strong working relationships with stakeholders, across the region and globally in order to deliver effectively and successfully the objectives of the programme and to share best practices, provide support and develop effective local policies and procedures appropriate to the Company, and working in support of the One MUFG and overall Group strategy.
A strong understanding and familiarity with standard market practices and knowledge, experience of the following payment platforms:
* Low Value Payments/ Schemes i.e. BACs, SEPA Direct Debits/ Credit Transfers, Faster Payments (FPS)
* High Value Payments/ Schemes i.e. SWIFT, TARGET2, CHAPs, RTGS
Additionally the candidate MUST HAVE the following:
* an understanding regarding new Market Infrastructures (NPA), industry standards/ changes, including SEPA Rulebooks/ SWIFT Standards that are being introduced into the payments world, plus for example ISO20022, PSD3/PSR
* experience of ISO migrations and toolsets that have been designed, implemented regarding payment translation tools i.e. MX-> MT
Strong communication and interpersonal skills is a must, and the candidate must have a well organised and structured approach to managing large scale programmes plus small/ medium projects, working with senior stakeholders, managing/ developing a team of project managers and support resources.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
In this role, you will be responsible for change management across MUFG’s banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement, you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the Bank and the Securities business, subject to the same remit and level of authority, and irrespective of the entity which employs you.
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PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS
Please note, MUFG operate a hybrid working model – 3 days office based (London)/2 days wfh.
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.
Website: https://mufgamericas.com/
Headquarter Location: New York, New York, United States
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1864
Industries: Banking ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ Wealth Management