Vice President, Compliance and Financial Crime Project Manager - IT Planning Division

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

Job summary

A leading global financial institution in London seeks a seasoned project manager to oversee complex change initiatives. The ideal candidate will have at least 10 years of experience in project delivery within financial institutions, strong leadership skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders. Responsibilities include end-to-end project management, ensuring compliance with governance standards, and maintaining project documentation. A proactive and structured individual is desired, capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading full lifecycle complex projects.
• Minimum 10 years delivering projects to financial institutions.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex change projects from initiation to deployment.
• Manage programme of projects and daily operations.
• Ensure project documents are complete and current.

Job description

About MUFG

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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.

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Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

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Our vision? To become the world's most trusted financial group. You'll help us achieve it. Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.

Dept overview

The IT Planning division is a global Programme Delivery Management team responsible for the delivery of the strategic Delivery portfolio across Bank and Securities entities in EMEA. The team is based in London with oversight, prioritization & delivery for the International Securities business portfolio and Bank London branch portfolio. The Delivery portfolio is delivered across key regional programs of work (Front Office, Compliance & Financial Crime, Operations, Finance, Risk & Data, Human Resources, Technology, and Planning), and overseen by the Regional Portfolio Committee.

Outside of the core Programme delivery portfolio; the IT Planning function leads a stream that develops and delivers Strategic or Transformation programs of work. The objectives of these are predominately to drive simplification and deliver a sustainable operating model in EMEA that is aligned with strategic business or functional targets. This stream currently manages the delivery of various initiatives that help define and delivery against strategic or MTP initiatives for EMEA management.

Over the past three years, MUFG in EMEA has embarked on an integration journey between MUFG Bank London and Securities to support the delivery of a sustainable business and operating model for the longer term business growth that is aligned with internal performance objectives and externally to support our Clients and Market footprint in EMEA.

Main purpose of the role

• The successful candidate will be part of the Compliance and Financial Crime Portfolio Change function, reporting into the Portfolio Lead and its corresponding delegate on a regular basis.
• When required, the candidate must be able to facilitate technical analysis and translate facts and figures to allow for streamlined decision making by non subject matter experts.
• Experience in either Compliance (data quality, data governance, regulatory reporting / monitoring and trade / comms surveillance) or Financial Crime (AML, KYC and Sanctions screening) is a must to ensure quick understanding of content and anticipating risks or issues.
• The candidate will need to have extensive experience in Investment Banking. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must, and candidate must have a well organised structured approach to managing medium to large projects and work with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and consultants.
• The right candidate will work closely, from front to back, with Functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) leads or Account Executives (AEs) in support of delivering against planned initiatives, the definition and running of fact finding and decision-making meetings, Working Groups, and Steering Committees to achieve tangible outcomes required to deliver against business objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for delivering complex change projects from initiation through to build, deployment and handover to the business
• Manage programme of projects, some as overall project manager, some via work stream leads
• Accountable for managing the full project lifecycle adhering to management standard governance and best practice from project initiation to closure.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of the programme.
• Competent in managing to established project methodology and best practice.
• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored.
• Responsible for working closely with relevant business and key stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of project(s).
• Responsible and accountable for creating and maintaining project plans and revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Run and manage steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against planned timelines.
• Be a trusted partner functional stakeholders and Planning department ensuring updates, issues and consensus is effectively managed and delivered.
• Manage implementation deliveries ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners.
• Produce management information surrounding project health and delivery of progress
• Oversight of project costs against budget and report status update on the project budget.
• Responsible for identifying resource demand and assign responsibilities.
• Responsible for working closely with technology and business product owners in order to design and deliver a fit for purpose solution.
• Identifying & managing interdependencies with other projects within the Compliance and Financial Crime Portfolio and external to it.

Work experience

Essential

• Experience in successfully leading full lifecycle complex projects
• Minimum 10 years proven track record delivering projects to financial institutions within time and budget.
• Strong governance approach to delivery
• Effective communication and leadership

Skills and experience

Functional / Technical competencies

• Full understanding of the project lifecycle
• Strong project delivery and deadline management
• Experienced user of project management tools
• Proven experience of managing budgets
• Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skillsets and across the international organisation
• Direct experience in managing multiple functional stakeholder (senior level) and consultants to derive clear and tangible outcomes
• Experience with identifying project outputs and tracking Business benefits.

Education / Qualifications

• Degree level (min)
• Programme/Project management or Financial markets led accreditation (beneficial)

Personal requirements

• Excellent communication skills
• Result & Delivery driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• Conflict management ensuring collaborative outcomes
• Strong decision-making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• 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
• Strong numerical skills
• Advanced Experience of MS Project and or other PM tools (Planview)
• Microsoft Office skills (specifically Powerpoint, Visio, Excel & Word).

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.