Cyber Security Project & Transition Manager

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is seeking a Cyber Security Transition Manager to lead business-aligned cyber security initiatives, manage information risk, and drive transformation programmes. You will partner with business, technology, risk and security teams to reduce cyber risk while enabling strategic objectives.

The role requires senior-level expertise in cloud-native or hybrid environments, enterprise security tooling, and delivering complex security projects, with a strong focus on

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity or security engineering.
• Experience in cloud-native or hybrid environments.
• Experience with enterprise security tooling.
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the trusted security advisor for business and technology stakeholders.
• Translate cyber security requirements into practical controls and risk mitigation.
• Ensure security requirements are embedded within projects and programmes.
• Review risk acceptances, compensating controls, and exception requests.
• Monitor emerging cyber threats and regulatory developments.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Risk management

Security governance

Regulatory remediation

Stakeholder management

Project delivery

Tools

Enterprise security tooling

Job description

The Cyber Security Transition Manager is responsible for providing business-aligned cyber security leadership, managing information risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and leading security remediation and transformation programmes. The role acts as the bridge between business, technology, risk, and security functions to reduce cyber risk while enabling business objectives through effective governance, stakeholder engagement, and project delivery.,

• Serve as the trusted security advisor for business and technology stakeholders.
• Translate cyber security requirements into practical business controls and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensure security requirements are embedded within projects, programmes, and service lifecycles.
• Facilitate security reviews covering: Cloud Services
• Vendor Onboarding
• Business Initiatives
• Application Development
• Promote security awareness and risk ownership across business functions.
• Support executive stakeholders in understanding security posture and risk exposure.
• Act as the first line of defence risk representative for assigned business units and technology domains.
• Maintain oversight of information security, technology, cyber, and operational risks affecting business services.
• Perform risk assessments and control evaluations for applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and third‑party providers.
• Review and challenge risk acceptances, compensating controls, and exception requests.
• Ensure risks are identified, documented, tracked, mitigated, and reported through established governance processes.
• Support the development and maintenance of risk registers and remediation plans.
• Monitor emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and regulatory developments that may impact the business
• 10+ years in cybersecurity or security engineering
• Experience in cloud-native or hybrid environments
• Experience with enterprise security tooling
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Functional / Technical Competencies: Strong knowledge of: Information Security Cybersecurity Risk Management Operational Resilience Third-Party Risk Management Security Governance Experience managing complex technology or cybersecurity projects.
• Experience supporting audits and regulatory remediation activities.
• Ability to translate technical risks into business-focused language.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience producing executive-level management information and reporting

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise 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 interpersonal skills.
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
• Excellent Communication skills

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

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. 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 create 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.