Risk & Pele Programme Manager

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 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.

EDUCATION
• Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable.
CERTIFICATIONS
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Solid experience in Program Management
• Must possess proven experience with project documentation on planning, test approach, RAID log and proactive in closing open items
• Thorough understanding of project management fundamentals
• Understanding of MSP ticketing and Alert Management Systems
• Experience in the financial services industry preferred
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
• Ability to execute and troubleshoot problems
• Ability to independently manage large projects required
• Ability to manage project teams
• Full understanding of business and technology
• Ability to ensure reporting quality
• Planning and process orientation
• Project management methodologies
• Project management tools (MS Project, Jira/Confluence)
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 tools (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• SharePoint Project Site, VISIO
• Contract Management
• Project documentation including planning, testing, risks and issues management, decisions
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
• Demonstrates leadership
• Communicates effectively
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
• Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
• Collaborates with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
• Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
• Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
• Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity
• Iterative problem-solving
• Serving as a trusted advisor
• Ability to articulate complex issues concisely
• Excellent organizational skills. Must be detail oriented and experienced with reporting to senior management
• Good consensus builder; able to drive large scale initiatives
• Ability to work cross organizations and through obstacles
RESPONSIBILITIES
• You will
• Take lead responsibility on large projects
• Drive planning at the various organizational levels to ensure projects are on track/resourced
• 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

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.