Vice President, Senior Audit Manager, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure

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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.

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 top 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, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin 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.

MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.

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EMEA Internal Audit Office (EIAO), as the Bank’s third Line of Defence, and in accordance with the Global Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Standards (IIA Standards), provides independent assurance to the Board and Executive Management on the quality and effectiveness of governance, risk management and internal controls to monitor manage and mitigate key risks to achieving the Bank’s objectives.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

An exciting new opportunity has emerged for a Cyber Security & IT Infrastructure - Senior Audit Manager to join our IT audit team within the EMEA Internal Audit function. In this role the Senior Audit Manager will support the Chief Auditor and Audit Director by executing and delivering key Cyber and IT Infrastructure audit engagements and reporting issues to senior management. This will include auditing areas such as Cyber Governance, Cyber Hygiene, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Cyber Threat Management and Operations, Data Protection & Confidentiality, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Emerging Technology.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Planning and executing audits across the Cyber and IT Infrastructure domains, including managing the audit team and delivering audits to budget and agreed timelines.
• Performing risks assessments and continuous risk monitoring activities across the technology control environment, as well as supporting the audit planning processes.
• To keep up to date with the evolving cyber risk landscape through continuous learning and participation at key industry events / forums.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders so that audit planning and delivery is achieved smoothly and professionally.
• Lead audit engagements to the required methodology standard.
• Provide ongoing feedback to the Audit Director throughout each engagement; escalate any performance related issues to the Audit Director. Coach junior team members on cyber related topics as well as audit methodology requirements.
• Display strong appreciation of Cyber risk and control areas, promoting cyber risk awareness throughout the Internal Audit department and among key stakeholders.
• Agree Management Action Plans with stakeholders, ensuring that remedial actions address the underlying root causes to mitigate the risks, and lead issue validation activities to verify that remedial actions are designed and operating effectively.
• Work collaboratively with all Internal Audit colleagues regionally and globally.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years of experience working in Cyber and/ or IT Infrastructure audit, or equivalent First Line risk and control role;

• Experience working in Financial Services is preferable;
• Deep understanding of Cyber Security and IT Infrastructure risk and control areas, including Cyber Governance, Cyber Hygiene, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Cyber Threat Management and Operations, Data Protection & Confidentiality, Cloud Computing, Operating and Database Management Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology
• Strong knowledge of IT and Cyber Security risk Frameworks, such as NIST, COBIT, DORA, ISO27001

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

• Relevant technology and industry qualifications e.g. CISA, CISSP, CISM, CIA are preferable

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders on risk and control issues
• Strong risk and control focus with the ability to focus on the areas of highest risk
• The ability to manage and prioritise large workloads and deliver to tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail with a structured and logical approach to work
• Strong decision making skills and the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• 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.