AVP | Governance

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 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.

As part of an effective risk and control framework, Information Technology for the Americas (ITA) Risk and Control Office (RCO) documents and executes risk and control assessments across processes related to Technology functions. There is a comprehensive coverage and joint accountability model that promotes early identification and assessment of technology risk, effective design and evaluation of controls, and sustainable solutions to mitigate operational and technology risk.

The IT Governance Associate Vice President (AVP) will focus on implementing Information and Operations Risk governance frameworks designed to identify, evaluate, and report on risks and controls across the Technology function.

Responsibilities include integrating those frameworks with business operations and keeping key stakeholders across the organization informed of new or revised policies, standards and control objectives; supporting various programs, including risk and control self-assessment (RCSA); reporting on process, risk, control and procedure compliance, and Key Risk Metrics (KRMs) as well as maintaining governance control evidence and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develop subject matter expertise to support the execution and documentation of framework governance controls for in-scope processes across technology and First Line of Defense (FLoD) business units
• Partner with stakeholders, including process owners, Business Unit Risk Managers (BURMs) and control officers, to execute against framework governance procedures
• Responsible for
• Evaluating IT events, incidents, and losses against Threat scenarios
• Performing Data Quality (DQ) reviews of risk and control or metric system of record data to ensure accuracy; communicating variances to stakeholders for review
• Revise process documentation (procedures, job aids) for policy, standard, and/or control objective changes as needed
• Support the
• Administration of RCSA Triggers, ensuring stakeholder responses are clear, concise and timely.
• Oversight of Technology procedures by ensuring timely reviews in compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements
• Various assessment programs, quality control and related reporting
• Iterative review and challenge of Governance controls, working with appropriate stakeholders across all lines of defense
• Utilize project management tools to track and coordinate policy, standard, and/or control objective change reviews
• Provide clear and concise communication to internal stakeholders throughout the process/project to keep them apprised of progress and findings, escalating when appropriate
• Coordinate required meetings, reviews, and scheduling needs
  
  

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in risk management at a bank / financial services organization
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, information systems, technology management, or equivalent
• Ability to adapt to an ever changing environment by ingesting multiple policies and standards and translating into viable implementation/action plans
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong analytic, planning, organizational skills, and attention to detail.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills; familiarity with Sharepoint; Experience with OpenPages or other governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) management system
• Experience drafting and publishing process documentation including procedures and workflows, and developing senior management reports/dashboards
• Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently, prioritize, and efficiently complete responsibilities with limited oversight/information from inception to completion
• Ability to identify obstacles and work in collaborative environments involving varying levels of management and employees to identify options/solutions
• Preferred:
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience working with multiple IT risk and control domains such as identity and access management, network security, vulnerability management, audit logging, privacy, enterprise architecture, release management and incident response
• Experience in evaluating and developing Key Risk Metrics (KRMs)
• Experience providing development requirements for Tableau and Power BI dashboards
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
• Experience in IT external audit, IT internal audit and technology risk and/or ITGC assessment for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
  

The typical base range for this role is between $88K and 111K per year 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

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.

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