Assistant Vice President, EMEA People Risk and Controls Assistant (12 month FTC)

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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for ensuring HR controls and processes are effective and consistent.
• Responsible for ensuring issue and action owners are reviewing and closing items in Open Pages on time
• Responsible for extracting monthly Open Pages data for  review and action
• Responsible for ensuring procedures are in place for key Risk and Control activities such as but not limited to:

• Collation of the Risk Assessment Forum Pack
• Collation of the Job Description Working Group Pack
• Annual Job Description Attestation Process
• Responsible for maintaining the Job Description Tracker and ensuring outstanding items are chased with outliers escalated to the EMEA People Risk Controls Manager

• Responsible for conducting sample checks on Job Description Attestation completion
• Responsible for conducting sample checks on Control Testing completed across the HR Department
• Responsible for collaborating with with internal and external auditors to resolve issues and for tracking of open issues

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Understanding of HR risks and controls in a financial services environment
• Background in HR services and processes, with understanding inherent risk and best practice mitigation.
• Previous background with writing up Standard Operating Procedures.
• Project management experience, coordinating multiple elements of the role with numerous stakeholders across EMEA.
• Background supporting a business / HR team through a period of change
• Data interrogation to identify issues, errors and risks

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Expert communicator, presenter, and collaborator; able to forge productive relationships with strategic partners and build consensus across multiple organisational levels
• Experience delivering complex programme of work in a professional environment through to successful completion
• Strong personal presence, to lead by example to maintain influence across internal teams.
• A high degree of motivation, adaptability and proactive thinking
• An appetite for information and an ability to prioritise and present valuable conclusions and summaries

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Personal alignment to MUFG Values
  • Integrity & Responsibility
  • Professionalism & Teamwork
  • Challenge ourselves to grow

• Personal alignment to EMEA Cultural Principles
  • Client Centric
  • People Focused
  • Listen Up, Speak Up
  • Innovate & Simplify
  • Own & Execute

• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving skills
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment

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.