Vice President, Programme Manager

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

Job summary

A leading financial services group seeks a Project Manager for its Risk Portfolio. This role involves overseeing risk management projects, aligning them with business goals, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Candidates should have over 10 years of project management experience within the banking sector, strong understanding of risk management, and excellent leadership skills. This position is based in London, offering a dynamic work environment and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project management within banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of risk management functions, including market and credit risk.
• Proven experience in budget management and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all MUS Risk projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Run and manage steering committees and working groups.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Project Management, or related field

Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Other Project Management tools

Job description

Overview

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 has a global network with 1,100 offices in over 40 countries. The Group has over 140,000 employees, offering services including corporate banking, commercial banking, retail banking, wealth management, investment banking, capital markets, personal and corporate trust, and transaction banking.

The Group’s operating companies include Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (Japan’s leading trust bank), and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest securities firms.

The Project Promotion team is part of the IT Planning, Reporting and Administration department (IPR). The role of the IPR department is to ensure communication and liaison with Head Office (HO) in Tokyo, for both Bank and Securities, as well as accountability for EMEA Technology wide reporting, management of resourcing processes, management of asset processes and administration of wider planning processes including annual budget planning.

The Risk & Pele Portfolio is part of the Project Promotion team which handle to deliver EMEA project within the planned schedule and budget.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS

4 headcounts as part of wider project delivery team.

Main purpose of the role

To lead and oversee the project of MUS Risk projects within the Risk Portfolio. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the end-to-end execution of risk management-related initiatives, ensuring projects align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices

Key responsibilities

Project Management for MUS Risk area:

• Lead and manage the all of MUS Risk projects, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Run and manage steering committees (if required), working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against planned timelines.
• Drive project governance, ensuring compliance with internal policies, regulatory standards, and best practices.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks that may impact project success.
• Apply subject matter expertise and experience to challenge the delivery of all projects and programmes.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Lead, mentor, and oversee a team of Project Managers, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Provide regular status reports and updates to governance committees, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Be a trusted partner functional stakeholders and Planning department ensuring updates, issues and consensus is effectively managed and delivered.

Reporting & Compliance:

• Ensure accurate and timely portfolio reporting to regulatory and internal oversight bodies.
• Stay updated on regulatory changes impacting market and credit risk management functions.
• Manage the project costs against budget and report status update on the project budget.

Work experience

• 10+ years of experience in project management within the banking or financial services sector.
• Strong understanding of risk management functions, including market risk, credit risk, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven experience in budget management, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, regulatory-driven environment with competing priorities.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of Basel III, IFRS 9, CCAR, DORA and other risk regulatory frameworks.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
• Experience in working with risk analytics, data governance, risk technology solutions.

Personal requirements

• Excellent communication skills
• 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
• Strong numerical skills
• Excellent Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office & Other Project Management tool skills

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 encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!

Our Culture Principles

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