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MUFG Analyst, Sanctions Advisory - 12 month Fixed Term Contract in London, United Kingdom
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
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 largest 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. Behaving with integrity and responsibility, underpinned by a desire to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, drives 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.
The Financial Crimes Office for EMEA (FCOE) in London is part of the Global Financial Crimes Division (GFCD) headquartered in New York. It works to ensure that our organisation conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our clients within the regulatory and legal framework. It is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protect clients’ assets and to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used to further financial crime.
NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS
None
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Tier 3 consists of a Sanctions Investigations Team and a Sanctions Advisory team. This role will be on the Sanctions Advisory team.
Driving the implementation of MUFG Bank’s financial crimes risk appetite, policies and standards by providing an approachable sanctions advisory hub to the EMEA region for all sanctions queries, ensuring advice is clear, informative and consistent.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide timely and consistent sanctions analysis to key stakeholders regarding potential transactions
Manage and monitor the review of Financial Crime clauses in contractual agreements
Review sanction alerts identified during Know Your Customer (KYC) onboarding and periodical review
Perform Customer Due Diligence when a sanctions nexus is identified
Assist GFCD in the collection of customer information pertaining to sanctions data
WORK EXPERIENCE
Essential:
Proven experience in and understanding of Sanctions
Good knowledge of and experience in banking
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Functional / Technical Competencies:
Core
MS Office skills
Demonstrates attention to detail
An understanding of Banking and Investment products
Broad understanding of financial crime risk (AML and ABC) in banking
An understanding of the concepts of risk management and control
Manages priorities effectively and delivers efficiently
Proactively identifies and communicates improvements to process
Specific to role
Strong analytical skills
Good financial sanctions knowledge in particular OFAC and EU regulations
Good relationship building and management skills
Education / Qualifications:
Preferred:
Degree
Relevant Qualification
PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS
Excellent communication skills
A proactive, motivated approach.
The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
A structured and logical approach to work
A creative and innovative approach to work
Excellent interpersonal skills
Works collaboratively with immediate colleagues, other teams in Financial Crime, across ECOD and the Bank and escalates appropriately
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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
Our Culture Principles
Client Centric
People Focused
Listen Up. Speak Up.
Innovate & Simplify
Own & Execute