AVP - Technology Innovation - Finance Business Analyst

MUFG Americas; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial group as a Business Analyst, where your expertise will drive innovation and success. In this role, you'll collaborate with diverse teams, leveraging your skills in stakeholder management and financial processes. You'll be responsible for leading projects, conducting requirements gathering, and providing subject matter expertise in Finance and Data. This dynamic environment encourages professional growth and values your contributions. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact in the financial sector, this is the perfect opportunity for you to thrive and excel.

Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder management and delivering technology solutions.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to perform SQL queries.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder relationships and ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Lead requirements gathering and compile formal documentation.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

SQL Queries

Advanced Excel

Communication Skills

Project Management

Business Analysis

Financial Reporting

Regulatory Knowledge

Murex

Education

Accounting Qualifications

Tools

Murex

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.

OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION

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 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, 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.

This role sits within the Business Analyst Team, Technology Innovation Management, Technology EMEA.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Specifically, you have accountability for the following named departments, this includes:

[Technology / Technology Innovation Management/ Business Analyst Team]

Authority from, and Reporting to:

(Simone Kilmartin/ Abi Bhangal)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Specifically, you will be accountable and responsible for taking appropriate action with respect to the Company’s and [MUFG Securities EMEA plc/Technology/Technology], including:

1. Stakeholder management across Finance and Data for ensuring delivery success across the Change portfolio but also acting as a representative and key partner for the business for TEC in a wider capacity.
2. Supporting both Project Managers and business partners through SME and problem skills. Acting as an advisor on appropriate TEC solutions with a solid understanding of the vendor landscape.
3. Utilise SME knowledge to support additional initiatives across Technology.
4. Conduct themselves in a manner commensurate with company values.
5. Lead by example in building relationships across the bank, establishing a strong peer network and helping to strengthen collaboration.
6. Provide subject matter expertise and knowledge on Finance and Data processes and systems to team members and the Technology department, and act as a contact point for Finance and Data managers when seeking TEC input on initiatives or serious issues.
7. Strong TEC skills with the ability to perform SQL queries, and be self-reliant on systems analysis. Advanced Excel also required.
8. Excellent communication skills required both written and verbal. Ability to build positive collaborative working relationships with Technology, Change Managers and Business stakeholders.
9. Troubleshooting issues and assisting the BAU Support Team(s).
10. Providing subject matter expertise to support TEC initiatives, as required e.g. presenting solutions to other parts of the organisation.
11. Flexibility around days at times this will require more than 3 days attendance and flexibility around days to align with business and department needs.
12. Proactively promoting yourself, the team and wider Technology department.
13. Support the Head of the Business Analyst Team and Finance and Data BA Team Lead with wider department and divisional initiatives in strategy and innovation.
14. Promote a dynamic, delivery driven culture that works alongside business units to provide responsive resolutions and value driven solutions.
15. Comply with relevant security and compliance procedures.
16. Promote the MUFG values-led culture which is inclusive and diverse.

The role also requires the Business Analyst to lead across projects for respective stakeholders. This includes:

1. Performing requirements gathering and compiling formal Business Requirements and Functional Specification documents.
2. Covering all aspects of Business Analyst engagement throughout the Project Development lifecycle including but not limited to:

• Formulating and presenting proposed solutions to the business users. This may incorporate illustrative calculations using production data.
• Formulating testing approaches and compiling test plans and test cases.
• Performing system/integration testing and supporting business users with user acceptance testing.
• Compiling and presenting test results.
• Completing project/work-stream status reports.
• Escalating issues/risks to project/line management.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Solid communication skills - both written and oral.
• A strong delivery track record and someone who can really take ownership of leading the Finance and Data initiatives.
• Experience of managing a team of senior technology professionals within a top tier bank or consultancy.
• Experience of successfully delivering large scale projects (preferably with an international scope).
• Confidence and gravitas required to interact with senior managers within the bank.
• Business analysis experience working for a top tier bank or consultancy.
• A thorough understanding of the project life-cycle and experience of compiling proposal, scope, requirements and testing documents.
• Knowledge of software development life-cycles.
• Strong product knowledge across the following: Bonds, Derivatives, Credit, Securities Financing, FX and Loans and Deposits.
• A good understanding and experience of Murex.
• Experience of Regulatory Capital and Liquidity measurement such as LCR and SA-CCR.
• Excellent knowledge of UK and EMEA Finance regulations, for example, IFRS9, BCBS239.
• Good overall knowledge of regulations and understanding of Finance concepts such as RWA.
• Understand the needs of a Finance organisation and be comfortable around financial reporting disclosures, month-end processes, year-end P&L accounting, financial adjustments.
• Have a good understanding of Subledger and General Ledger applications for financial accounting.
• Have extensive experience working with financial investment products including Vanilla IR & CR.
• Have accounting qualifications (full or part qualified) which supports an understanding of technical accounting requirements on IFRS, UK-GAAP, J-GAAP.
• Have worked on trading platforms such as Murex and understand trade life cycle.
• Pay great attention to detail and be client driven with a focus on delivery and milestones.
• Have exceptional communication skills, being able to converse with a wide variety of stakeholders including department heads.

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.