AVP, Bank Expense Portfolio - 12 Month FTC

MUFG Americas; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

MUFG is seeking a skilled professional to support the management and reporting of the Bank's expenses portfolio. This role involves planning budgets, ensuring data integrity, reconciling expenses, and collaborating with various departments to enhance the efficiency of financial operations. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical abilities, attention to detail, and effective communication skills.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Proficient with Excel, Word, Access.
• Good exposure to accounting software packages.
• Excellent communication skills with a results-driven approach.

Responsibilities

• Manage and report on the Bank’s expenses portfolio, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and year-end close processes for expense-related accounts.
• Liaise with auditors and business owners for expense transaction validation.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Accounting software knowledge

Communication

Problem solving

Attention to detail

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 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.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (“MUFG”) 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 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, Ltd., 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.

Please visit our website for more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Support and contribute to the management and reporting of the Bank’s expenses portfolio. This includes planning process for budgeting; ensuring expense data to be at its most accurate, complete and timely. Forming effective partnerships with all departments within Bank, in EMEA, Head Office as well as our external auditors to seamlessly manage the complete expenses portfolio.

Primary activities include (but are not limited to):

• Monthly, quarterly and year-end close process for expense-related accounts, ensuring completeness and accuracy including accrual processing, monthly journals and delayed monthly closing adjustments preparation and review.
• Detailed reconciliation of expenses to source invoices and liaising with business owners to ensure validity and accuracy of individual expense transactions.
• Provide detailed MI, expense commentary and variance analysis to Senior Management.
• Managing ad-hoc queries in relation to the London expenses end-to-end process.
• Assisting Financial Planning team on expense line forecasting and budgeting.
• Quarterly and semi-annual Japanese GAAP and US GAAP reporting preparation and review ensuring complete, accurate and timely preparation and submission of reports and following up with auditor queries.
• Quarterly expense reports to external Auditors.
• Quarterly submission of Bank of England expense report, in coordination with the Finance Regulatory Reporting team to ensure alignment in financial disclosure.
• US GAAP SOX Testing.
• Half yearly Variable Interest Entity reporting.
• Support TAX team on VAT related issues, Taxable Benefits and Tax reporting to HMRC.
• Management of Intercompany Agreements (IAAs) both intra and inter EMEA region, US and Asia.
• Invoicing and following up on cash remittance for services carried out in London on behalf of MUFG offices.
• Overall responsibility of contractors timecards calculation for investment projects.
• Special Finance Projects – support ad hoc expense projects.
• Drive automation initiative, testing new business intelligence tools and assisting in the development of automated reporting solutions.
• Develop, enforce and maintain internal policies and procedures related to expense accounting in accordance with the relevant GAAP and MUFG guidelines, review and enhance internal controls.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Proficient with Excel, Word and Access)
• Good exposure to accounting software packages.
• Good written and verbal skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving skills
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized 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.