Assistant Vice President, Finance Control (12 Month FTC)

MUFG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial organization is looking for a Financial Reporting professional based in Greater London. The role involves supporting month-end close processes, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting, and engaging with external auditors. Candidates should be ACA/ACCA qualified and possess solid IFRS knowledge. This position not only offers a chance to work with complex financial instruments but also promotes a culture of flexibility and inclusion. Strong interpersonal skills and attention to detail are essential for success in this dynamic environment.

Benefits

Flexible working requests

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Big 4 trained preferred.
• Familiarity with PRA / FCA Reporting requirements is a plus.
• Capable of working with large volumes of complex data.

Responsibilities

• Support the Revenue and Cost Teams in month-end close.
• Conduct financial reporting and value-add analysis.
• Maintain detailed process notes for various responsibilities.

Skills

Financial instruments experience

Solid knowledge of IFRS

Advanced Excel skills

Education

ACA / ACCA qualified / newly qualified

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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 150,000 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.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision 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, MUFG Bank, 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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Finance is responsible for the effective financial management and stewardship of the detailed accounting records, general ledger reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and tax affairs of the company. The Financial Reporting team are responsible for the annual and interim published financial statements, interaction and management of the external audit process, monthly balance sheet control and reporting and quarterly reporting to head office in Tokyo.

Main Purpose of the Team

Our Financial Reporting and Accounting Control Team (“FRC”) is responsible for the central reconciliation of finance systems to upstream sources and related control aspects for MUFG Securities EMEA Plc and MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. and the required IFRS and JGAAP reporting in an accurate the timely manner.

Accounting Control focuses on, daily and monthly control of the general ledger, reconciliation of revenues across all trading books between Oracle and Product Control Consolidated P&L, expense management and reporting, substantiationofbalance sheet, documentation and processing of hedge accounting.

Financial Reporting focuses on IFRS and JGAAP reporting to serve Statutory, Regulatory and Management Information reporting requirements.

Key Responsibilities of the role

Revenues

• Supporting the Revenue Team in month end close
• Providing insight and support for PL and the related BS impact of the financial instruments

Costs

• Supporting the Cost Team in month end close
• Providing insight and support for cost + and expense recharge mechanism

Balance Sheet

• In depth third party-based Balance sheet substantiation

Reporting

• You will compliment timely and accurate financial reporting with value-add analysis through detailed analytical procedures to understand business performance and drivers
• You will leverage Business Intelligence (our primary data reporting tool) and your knowledge of systems architecture to develop and automate processes to enhance control, increase efficiencies and enable greater focus on value-add analysis
• Extensive communication is required across the firm including direct interaction with trading desks, risk teams, product control and other Finance teams with regular communication with Tokyo colleagues
• You will engage with external auditors to support the process throughout the cycle, including interim procedures, controls review and year-end substantive testing
• The team is expected to maintain recent detailed process notes for all material areas of responsibility and support other team members through cross-training and knowledge sharing to promote a culture of continual professional development across the team
• The role may require rotation within the team to ensure exposure to alternate products, at appropriate intervals
• Other ad-hoc tasks, depending on the workload of the team

General

• Projects : provide key input into the design, specification and implementation of systems and controls to enhance underlying departmental processes
• New Products, Complex Transactions and Businesses : Key involvement in the New Product Approval and product implementation processes, ensuring appropriate bookings and related interpretation in the cash control mechanism.
• Play a leading role in ensuring governance standards are adhered to.

Skills and Experience

• Big 4 trained preferred and ACA / ACCA qualified / newly qualified (part-qualified considered)
• Financial instruments experience (preferred, not essential)
• Solid knowledge of IFRS required
• Familiarity with PRA / FCA Reporting requirements (preferred, not essential)
• Familiarity with working with very large volumes of complex data
• Competent user of Microsoft Office with advanced Excel skills

Personal Requirements

• Results driven, with a strong sense of personal accountability
• The ability to work flexibly in managing large workloads and tight deadlines
• Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy
• The ability to operate with urgency and priorities work accordingly
• A structured and logical approach, using your own initiative and good judgement to work autonomously
• The ability to think about topics holistically in gaining a front to back understanding of areas outside your immediate remit
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confident communication style

This advert will close on 12th January 2026

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.