Director, Head of Financial Planning and Analysis

MUFG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial group in London seeks a manager for Financial Planning and Analysis. Responsibilities include managing staff, enhancing stakeholder relationships, leading projects, and conducting financial analyses. Candidates should have experience in financial planning and corporate banking. A qualified accountant is preferred. This role embraces flexible working requests.

Qualifications

• Experience working in financial planning and analysis or equivalent management accounting functions.
• Experience of global markets and corporate banking businesses within an Investment bank.

Responsibilities

• Manage recruitment, retention, and development of staff.
• Enhance relationships with stakeholders.
• Lead projects and system enhancements.
• Conduct financial analysis and reporting.
• Prepare business cases for strategic decisions.

Skills

Experience in financial planning and analysis

Experience with global markets

Experience in corporate banking

Management skills

Education

Qualified accountant

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.

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, 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.

Please visit our website for more information - www.mufgemea.com

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Management and oversight

• Talent management to include recruitment, retention and development of staff to ensure individual and team performance in line with stakeholder expectations;
• Maintaining and enhancing good working relationships with stakeholders, including business and control / infrastructure teams, auditors, regulators, local management and staff of the Finance function globally;
• Leading projects and system enhancements as required, ensuring effective control and continuous process improvement;
• Identification, escalation and resolution of issues regarding the department and related activities;
• Ensure adherence to Finance Policies and Procedures and that said documents are updated in accordance with review schedules and remain relevant in the context of business/market events;
• Ensure adherence to relevant regulatory requirements and accounting standards;
• Documentation of control activities and methodologies undertaken in respect of the above responsibilities to a standard sufficient to ensure hand over of tasks and auditability of results and including the management of operational risks;
• Conducting analysis in support of the Finance function, whether through additional ad hoc tasks or presentation of written materials;
• Support the development of an integrated Finance function across Bank and Securities, identifying opportunities to align processes and approaches in current systems to facilitate future integrations Financial Planning & Analysis
• Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan and partnering with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts.
• Evaluating previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets;
• Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors. Utilising BI tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance. Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability;
• Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team;
• Analysing financial and operational results to better understand company performance and communicating to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results. Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost centre results;
• Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost saving initiatives.
• Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations;
• Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions;

Principal Duties

Specifically, you will have management and oversight of Financial Planning and Analysis Department.

• Establishing and developing the Department and its participation in the Firm’s Business strategy including setting objectives and business plans and managing costs within the Department
• Leading, directing, controlling and managing the staff within the Department/Unit to ensure that they
• (i) understand their responsibilities and duties applicable to their roles,
• (ii) comply with the Firm’s policies and procedures and
• (iii) conduct themselves in a way which is commensurate with the Firm’s values;
• Maintaining and enhancing good working relationships with stakeholders, including business and control /infrastructure teams globally;
• Planning and preparing the Department/Unit’s annual budget, documenting budget expenditures and monitoring Department/Unit expenditure ensuring that cost controls are always in place;
• With regard to your International responsibilities (where applicable), overseeing and being accountable for the International Business, including supporting the strategy determined by the International Business Head of MUSHD, including the activity, and building of, a best-in-class International Business;
• Maintaining required control procedures, including the management of operational risks.

Controls & Compliance

You will manage the Department and ensure compliance with the Firm’s internal risk and compliance requirements, controls and procedures including but not limited to:

• You shall conduct yourself at all times in a way which is commensurate with the Firm’s values and ensure that the needs of the Firm’s clients and the integrity of the market are placed at the heart of the carrying out of your duties and ensure all staff under your responsibility are conducting themselves as industry professionals and in accordance with policy guidelines.
• Take reasonable measures to remain aware of key market and regulatory developments and, where necessary, attend training in this regard.
• Comply with, ensure that all staff under your responsibility (where applicable) comply with, the Company’s policies and procedures as well as all rules, laws and regulatory requirements emanating from any of the regulatory authorities to which the Firm is subject;
• Carry out management responsibilities (where applicable) in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures ensuring that all staff are fully trained and understand what is required of them in order to do their jobs effectively. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: providing job descriptions and setting objectives/personal development plans for, and performing performance appraisals of, staff at least twice a year, handling appropriately any grievance or disciplinary issues, liaising with the Human Resources Department where appropriate.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience working in financial planning and analysis or equivalent management accounting functions
• Experience of global markets and corporate banking businesses within an Investment bank

Preferred Requirements

• Qualified accountant

This advert will close on 30th 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.

At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and reviewing them!

Our Culture Principles

• Client Centric
• People Focused
• Listen Up. Speak Up.
• Innovate & Simplify
• Own & Execute