Global Project Solutions - AVP

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 150,000 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.

Work Experience:

• Deep experience in the banking or finance industries preferred

• Understanding of regulatory environment and compliance concerns preferred

• Experience with focus on risk management, risk modelling, and/or knowledge of regulatory requirements of institutional banking highly desired

• Experience working closely with business teams to understand requirements

• Experience working in a systematic project management delivery process

• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders

• Experienced in SDLC methodologies including Agile, waterfall, or other delivery methodology

• Proven ability to solicit, define, and deliver business requirements

• Experience defining creative solutions to meet business needs

• Experience delivering complex projects

• Knowledge of REST APIs and Cloud Technology highly desirable

• Experience with JIRA and Agile project delivery

• Experience in creating test plans and test cases and verify test results against requirements.

Functional Skills:

• Ability to execute and troubleshoot problems

• Ability to independently manage small to large projects

• Full understanding of business and technology

• Ability to create project plans with multiple functional areas

• Planning and process orientation

• Familiar with Project management methodologies

• Ability to read and write Business Requirement Details

• Project management tools (MS Project, Jira/Confluence)

• Proficient in Microsoft 365 tools (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

• SharePoint Project Site, VISIO

• Ability to perform Contract Management

Responsibilities:

• Take lead responsibility on large projects

• Drive planning at the various organizational levels to ensure projects are on track

• Lead project meetings as needed and report back with decisions made and action items

• Establish project / program governance and communication with stakeholders

• Ensure timetable and deliverable schedules are understood and communicated

• Proactively manage dependencies, coordinate across teams to resolve issues and mitigate risks

• Contribute to executive level updates on strategy, budget, project delivery, controls, risks, etc.

• Organize required reporting for business and technology management review sessions

• Manage project financial and resource forecasting

• Identify and challenge project financials and deliverables to ensure efficient and accurate execution

• Ensure project transparency through reporting and updates

• Facilitate the documentation of business requirement and testing

• Manage project changes

• Manage the establishment of vendor and 3rd party contracts

Education:

• Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable.

• Bachelor's degree

The typical base pay range for this role is between $85K - $124K 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.