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OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with around 3,000 offices in more than 50 markets. The Group has over 180,000 employees, and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
MUFG aims to be the world’s most trusted financial group through close collaboration among its operating companies, and to respond to all of the financial needs of its clients, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.
Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.
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 a way 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.
Within the Sanctions Team of FCOE, the Sanctions Spike Team is responsible for managing specific aspects of the control framework.
NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS
N/A
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Sanctions Spike Team is responsible for the effective running of the Sanctions Program across all jurisdictions within EMEA. The team ensure the robust management of the broader Sanctions Control Framework, in support of this they provide oversight, SME knowledge and support to other Sanctions Teams including the offshore teams.
This includes:
Supporting and assisting with the implementation of MUFG Bank’s financial crimes risk appetite, policies and standards through working with Country Compliance teams, Operations and Business stakeholders.
Providing support and logistical management to enable Sanctions Programs to deliver its book of work efficiently and effectively across the EMEA region with specific responsibility for the management Policy adherence, Risk Assessments, MI provision and Issues Management.
Support the team processes and ensure our organisation conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our customers within the regulatory and legal framework.
As part of a leading global financial group, MUFG is required to act with integrity and meet our corporate responsibilities in the fifty-plus countries and regions where we operate. Ensuring we have a comprehensive financial crime compliance program is one of our most important responsibilities. MUFG has established the Global Financial Crimes Division in New York, USA to lead the program and each region under this program has a Financial Crimes Office.
Financial Crimes Office EMEA (FCOE) is the regional office responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protect customers’ assets and to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used to further financial crime in EMEA.
MUFG’s financial crime compliance framework includes control processes designed to help the Bank detect, deter, and prevent financial crime as well as assess and mitigate related risks (i.e., money laundering and terrorist financing risk, sanctions risk, and bribery and corruption risk) in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws, rules, regulations, supervisory guidance, and commensurate with the Bank’s risk profile and risk appetite.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The main purpose of the role is to investigate sanctions alerts, disposition false positives, draft dispositions describing sanctions risk based on open source research and escalate potential or true hits to advisory teams containing sanctions subject matter experts (SMEs). Analysts will carry out their investigations in line with sanctions investigations and alert handling procedures. In addition the role requires a high level of technical knowledge relating to data analytics and transformation across multiple excel workbooks to support the aspects of the data preparation.
The role holder will:
Effectively and efficiently transform large data work sheets into a standardized format
Investigate sanctions hits and disposition false positives
Escalate potential true hits to sanctions SME
Conducting investigative work with a sound grasp of process and procedural requirements
Gather evidence using Financial Crime products (e.g .World Check, Dow Jones) and from public sources
Drafting concise, accurate and compelling narratives which address the various sanctions concerns
Log case details in spreadsheets or case management tools
Providing case feedback and contributing to process improvements on the end to end process
Support Governance activities which includes updating operating manuals and engagement with stakeholders
Provide administrative support as may be required to support Sanctions Programs activities
Support in EMEA transformation activities, ensuring adherence to agreed timelines and escalation of emerging issues as may be required
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Functional / Technical Competencies:
Essential:
Identify, collect and migrate data to and from a range of systems
Apply tools and techniques for data analysis and data visualisation (including use of business information tools such as PowerBI, Python, SQL)
Summarise and present data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users and make recommendations on the basis of analysis
Excellent communication skills
The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
A proactive, motivated approach.
MS Office skills
Preferred
Broad understanding of banking, financial crime risk (AML and Sanctions) in banking and a general understanding of the concepts of risk management and control
Good conceptual understanding of risk, compliance and controls
Good understanding of banking products and the UK regulatory environment and knowledge of sanction
Education / Qualifications:
Relevant banking/compliance experience desirable but not essential
Degree desirable but not essential
PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS
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
The ability to understand and manage the needs of a diverse and extensive group of stakeholders
Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
A structured and logical approach to work
Eagerness to find the right answer, not the easy answer
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
PERFORMANCE AND DUTIES
The role holder will be assessed in accordance with their employing entity’s performance framework and process with relevant input obtained from the dual hatting entity as relevant.
As duties and responsibilities change, the job description will be reviewed and emended in consultation with the role holder. The role holder will carry out other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the role as requested by their line manager or Department Head.
MANAGING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The role holder will have responsibilities for both MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc.
The role holder will be required to perform their duties and responsibilities on an entity neutral basis, without favour.
The role holder is required to follow regulatory requirements applicable to ensure each business is appropriately supported and to maintain the legal entity integrity of each of MUFG Bank and MUS.
Working terms are dictated by functional mandates, the terms of the Dual-Hat Arrangement Agreement in place between MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc and any other relevant agreements entered into between MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc.
The role holder will have responsibility for identifying and resolving where there may be a difference or conflict in needs between MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc, escalating to their manager where required.
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.
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MUFG London, England Office
25 Ropemaker Street, London, United Kingdom
