Assistant Vice President, Head of Risk and Control

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom MUFG Securities EMEA plc Full time

**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 160,000 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.

**Overview of the Department/Section**:
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG has a global network with 1,100 offices in over 40 countries. The Group has over 140,000 employees, offering services including corporate banking, commercial banking, retail banking, wealth management, investment banking, capital markets, personal and corporate trust, and transaction banking.

The Group’s operating companies include Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (Japan’s leading trust bank), and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest securities firms.

MUFG conducts securities business internationally through its overseas subsidiaries MUFG Securities EMEA plc, MUFG Securities Americas Inc., MUFG Securities Asia Limited. and MUFG Securities Asia (Singapore) Limited. With each member of the group working in partnership with one another, MUFG provides best in class service and products to corporate and institutional clients.

MUFG Securities EMEA plc is the European hub of MUFG’s securities business. Headquartered in London we have just over 600 employees and are active throughout the international capital markets, focusing on debt, equity, derivatives and structured products. Due to the diverse nature of our business we require a clear unifying vision for all of our people. It is this vision and our corporate values that reflect who we are and guide how we behave. We therefore strive to recruit individuals who share our vision and values, and who have the motivation and commitment to help us move our business forward.

**Main purpose of the role**:
To ensure effective management of technology risks and controls, liaising with all Technology departments and some business functions within the MUS international business and MUFG group as necessary.

Strong organisational skills are required as this role will cover a variety of IT process assurance and produce monthly reports to the senior management.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Managing IT Risk & Controls environment including related policies, standards and processes
- Implementing the IT Risk and Control framework within 1st line Technology
- Work closely with all areas to ensure clear visibility of Risk with all IT staff
- Enact the department’s strategy and roadmap
- Ensure strong relationship is built with both 2nd line (ORM) and 3rd line (Audit)
- Be constantly aware of costs and ensure that opportunities to optimise them are applied
- Ensure Risk and Control reporting internationally is accurate and timely
- Work with 2nd line to populate the risk system accurately for IT
- Ensure FFIEC is thoroughly prepared for and managed
- Ensure that all security regulatory requirements are fully complied with across EMEA IT, including SOX and that internal IT assessments and appropriate defences and controls are in place to deal with all cyber risks.
- Lead the audit process for technology, working closely with all areas, especially the Infrastructure team for alignment of controls
- Manage the risk portfolio to include linking risk to controls, acceptance of risk and managing remediation plans; conducting control testing when appropriate.
- Manage the end to end Security by Design process
- Manage the annual (and ad-hoc) risk assessments
- Manage regulatory change monitoring and impact assessments
- Manage the EUC framework including central register, annual attestation, control testing and reporting
- Manage reporting requirements for Technology and executive committees

**Skills and experience**:
Strong technical background with 5-10 + years’ experience in risk and control management with proven IT controls, and/or IT risks and/or IT governance skills.

Certified CRISC / CISA / CISM / CISSP or other relevant qualifications.

Knowledge of cyber security controls and tooling desirable.

Ability to make sense of complex situations and rapidly prioritise issues to take effective decisions in a commercial manner.

Ability to manage multiple tasks to tight deadl



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