Assistant Vice President, Middle Office, Agency and Loan Participation

MUFG Americas; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking an Assistant Vice President for their Loan Middle Office in London. The role involves managing and monitoring risks, overseeing product approvals, and ensuring high standards of client service. Candidates should have significant experience in middle office control functions and strong operational knowledge of the loan market. A commitment to risk management and collaboration is essential. This position offers the opportunity for flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Considerable experience within a Financial Institution Middle Office Control function.
• Sound experience managing controls across service teams.
• Good operational knowledge of the loan market.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor Risks and controls for Loan middle office tasks.
• Coordinate New Product Approvals across Loan products.
• Report and coordinate Risk items with the control team.

Skills

Client Service

Risk Management

Collaboration

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Education

GCSE (or equivalent) in core academic subjects

A Level (or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Loan IQ

Job description

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

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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.

Overall Purpose of Job

Loan Middle Office, within the Operations Division for EMEA is responsible for managing life cycle of a Loan. The team provides Credit Middle, Loan Transaction management, Facility Agency functions and additional agency function services aligned the credit facility agreement. The role is responsible to create, manage and monitor Risks and controls for Loan middle office tasks across MUFG. Requirement to strengthen the safety and soundness across Loan Middle Office services.

No of Direct Reports: 0

Essential Functions

• Responsible to create, manage and monitor Risks and controls for Loan middle office tasks across MUFG.
• Manage and co‑coordinate all New Product Approvals across the Loans products. Ensuring all new processes and products are approved with a process flow and controls implemented in the teams prior to Go Live.
• Document, co‑ordinate and report all Risk across the team including reporting incidents, near misses, self‑identified issues.
• Report and co‑ordinate Risk items with the first line control team. Ensuring all due dates are managed accordingly with actions closed in a timely manner.
• Excellent Client Service when liaising with the Business and key stakeholders.
• Represent Loan Services at Risk Forums with the Business and support function meetings.
• Co‑coordinate across Loan Services management team to ensure Risk and Controls and standardised and reported.
• Lead and support key initiatives across EOO Loan Services to ensure EOO is servicing the Business, new deals.
• Build a strong network across the Business and support teams on Loan services with a strong market sound understanding of the Loan Services.
• Continually review and challenge processes and procedures to maximise efficiency and processes that allow highest possible facility usage with a view to maximising the revenue streams, in order to satisfy client and other stakeholder’s requirements.
• Working with Head of LMO to achieve the short‑term, medium‑term, and long‑term goals of the team related to Risk and control management.
• Responsible for working autonomously to resolve operational issues as they arise, and providing, where necessary, the implementation of preventative measures to avoid reoccurrence of incidents.
• Responsible for daily control management and monitoring for Loan Services. Working with the Loan Management team to resolve all breaks daily.
• Lead system enhancements and share expertise in the implementation of new systems and/or systems upgrades.

Education

• Minimum GCSE (or equivalent) in core academic subjects
• A Level (or equivalent) preferred
• Additional language skills advantageous

Work Experience

As this an Assistant Vice President position the candidate should possess:

• Considerable experience of working within a Financial Institution Middle Office Control function.
• Sound experience of managing and monitoring controls across service teams.
• Good Operational knowledge of the loan market
• Experience of facilitating and chairing Stakeholders meetings

Functional/Technical Skills and Knowledge requirements

• Proficient in the standard Microsoft Office suite (e.g. Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel)
• Loan IQ preferred

Behavioural Competencies

Integrity and Responsibility

• Balance Risk with Opportunity
• Customer Focus
• Demonstrate Global Perspective

Professionalism and Teamwork

• Collaborate and Build Partnerships
• Communicate Effectively and Professionally
• Drive for Results

Challenge Ourselves to Grow

• Lead Change and Seek Continuous Improvement
• Think Strategically
• Influence and Inspire Others
• Manage and Develop Talent

This advert will close on 23rd November 2025

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.