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MUFG Tech Control Officer, AVP in New York, New York
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 10 largest financial institutions according to S&P Global. 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.
In this role you will focus on internal and external compliance requirements, activities, and deliverables to ensure that Operations & Technology meets regulatory and audit milestones. Responsibilities include collaborating with Operations & Technology colleagues to prepare or review content prior to submission and manage follow-up actions; tracking, escalating, and/or remediating risks and issues; and contributing to executive-level reporting.
As a member of the Operations and Technology for the Americas (OTA) Risk & Controls Office (RCO), is a key member of a first line risk and controls team aligned to a specific OTA technology business. This individual works with other team members to partner with technology teams to drive effective risk and control management. The teams are responsible for assessing the technology risk and control environment, identifying improvement opportunities, reporting and monitoring key risk metrics and providing governance with respect to all risk and control matters.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree required in technology, engineering, risk management, computer science, information systems, or equivalent field.
3-5 years’ experience in a Risk Management, Audit, or First Line of Defense role.
3-5 years’ experience with Issue documentation, remediation, and closure.
3-5 years’ experience with RCSA frameworks including KRIs, risk to control mapping, and control testing.
Preferred: Professional certifications such as Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
WORK EXPERIENCE
3-5 years of experience in a financial institution or other highly regulated environment in technology infrastructure, technology risk management role or equivalent or related field
Familiarity with U.S. regulatory, compliance, and governance with a focus on banking and financial institution regulations
Understanding of risk management, including experience executing risk assessments, testing and evaluating processes and controls
Experience with executing technology and or information security risk assessment/testing methodologies evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls; and identifying issues resulting from internal and or external compliance examinations.
Experience in auditing Identity and Access Management or Enterprise Architecture processes
Experience relating industry best practices and frameworks such as: Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), COBIT, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CSF and 800-53, Cybersecurity Horizontal Reviews, and ITIL.
Exposure to risk assessment/testing methodologies evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls, and identifying issues resulting from internal and or external compliance examinations
Experience evaluating process documentation, risk, and control assessments and designing/executing test scripts
Understanding of risks and controls, issue management, reporting, metrics, and audits
Experience with problem solving in a team environment by utilizing critical and creative thinking skills, providing innovative solutions, with and without technology
Experience using Microsoft collaboration and project management tools such as SharePoint, Teams, and Project
Knowledge of financial institution businesses, processes, products, and risk preferred
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Risk management exposure including evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls, and identifying issues
Exposure to enforcement agencies and oversight activities (regulatory examinations, etc.)
Knowledge of critical domestic and international banking regulations (Reg W, Basel II, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), etc.)
Understanding of the regulatory environment and regulations related to risk, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Federal Reserve Board (FRB) expectations
Understanding of data quality, data quality monitoring, and data maturity models
RESPONSIBILITIES
Specific BAU responsibilities will include working collaboratively with the businesses as a BURM team representative to execute the following:
Issue Identification:
Partner with business to proactively identify MSIs and appropriately document SLoD and TLoD identified issues, using the appropriate templates and coordinating with impacted stakeholders to document accurate root causes and seek required approvals for issues to be submitted through issue intake and pass tollgate for issue documentation in Open Pages.
MAP development:
Work with other BURM teams and BURCO validation teams to challenge any potential issues and participate in issue identification and development once they are recognized and agreed as issues
Review, challenge, and participate in issues’ MAP development to ensure MAPs can address the control deficiencies and symptoms pointed out in the issue, including building out a sustainable and repeatable process
Issue validation:
Perform first line validation of issues including MSIs, SLoD, TLoD, and regulatory issues
Review, challenge, and participate in issue lifecycle validation with BURMs’ teams to ensure issue packages are completed properly prior to being presented at tollgates (review and challenge) meetings
Reporting and QA support:
Support management to generate various metrics/ reports for senior management and board level committees
Maintain standard IM templates
Provide QA and reports on OpenPages issues
Stakeholder engagement:
Engaged with Operations & Technology key stakeholders, management, BURMs, SLoD, and TLoD to ensure risks are understood across all LoDs and risk treatment is properly identified and remediated
Manage issues tollgate process:
Review issue intake submissions for tollgates (review and challenge), provide feedback on issue packages (new issues, MAPs, closures packages, risk acceptances), ensure requirements are met, and that follow-ups are acted on and completed
Additional non-project responsibilities will include working collaboratively with the business units and their risk teams to execute the following:
Support management to generate various metrics reports for senior management and board level committees
Maintain standard issues management (IM) templates
Provide quality assurance (QA) and reports on OpenPages issues
Engage with key stakeholders, management, BURMs, SLoD, and TLoD to ensure risks are understood across all lines of defense (LoD) and risk treatment is properly identified
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
Communicates effectively Identifies multiple paths to success through the development of analytical, critical thinking, and decision-making skills
Exercises sound judgement and strives for continuous improvement
Demonstrates optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
Learns while doing
Actively listens and asks thoughtful questions
Leverages available technology to achieve efficiency and results
Engages inclusively and with intent
Always acts with integrity
Iterative problem-solving
Serving as a trusted advisor
Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills and ability to manage stakeholders across multiple disciplines and strong written skills
Excellent analytical, organizational, and conceptual skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently, prioritize, and efficiently complete responsibilities while maintaining the highest quality
Ability to support work streams with sometimes limited oversight/information from inception to completion
Ability to identify obstacles and work in conjunction with others to identify options/solutions
Ability to constructively work both independently and in collaborative environments involving all levels of management and employees
The typical base pay range for this role is between $88K - $111K 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 (https://careers.mufgamericas.com/sites/default/files/document/2023-01/mb-live-well-work-well.pdf)
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.
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