VP, Global Markets Sales & Trading Project Manager

MUFG Americas; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial group where your voice matters and your actions count. As a Project Manager in Global Markets, you will lead initiatives that drive innovation and enhance customer experiences. Collaborate with diverse teams to re-engineer business processes, simplify complexities, and implement strategic solutions. This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a culture that values people, fosters growth, and encourages creativity. With a competitive pay range and a comprehensive benefits package, this position is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the financial industry.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

Retirement plans

Educational assistance

Paid maternity and parental leave

Paid vacation and sick days

Qualifications

• Experience in Front Office Business Management or Project Management.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage global/regional projects and coordinate functional resources.
• Drive innovative customer experiences through technology.

Skills

Project Management

Change Management

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Organizational Skills

Relationship Building

Attention to Detail

Ability to Work Independently

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

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.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

General Responsibilities

The Candidate will act as Global Markets Front Office Sales and Trading Project Manager responsible for specific deliverables within global/regional/Line of Business focused program initiatives. This role will report to a regional program lead and will be accountable for the core responsibilities identified below. This role will require the coordination of various functional resources in the delivery of new processes, procedures, controls, and technology.

Project Management at MUFG requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society and our industry.

Core Responsibilities

Business Process Re-engineering and Development

• Understand and evaluate existing business processes and develop value add re-engineering recommendations. Drive recommendations through to implementation.
• You will identify opportunities to innovate for new sources of business scalability that can be supported by a platform, feature or capability.
• Work to simplify overly complex processes and identify areas to create consistency.
• Develop and maintain peer / industry networks to stay informed on innovation trends in market to support the business.

Support Partner Coordination

• Lead horizontally across the value chain to ensure effective engagement and execution with Support partners (Operations, Technology, Risk, Finance, etc).
• Facilitate and contribute solution ideas with wider business team and Support partners.
• Evaluate and curate an understanding of vendor capabilities relevant to the business and the core business processes.

Project Administration

• Working with functional leads and front-to-back stakeholders in the development of strategy and delivery.
• Objectives planning, defining scope and deliverables.
• Budget development and tracking.
• Project plan development including activity planning, sequencing and resource management and BAU model plus handover.
• Oversee the creation and approval of core project documentation including business requirements, functional requirements, technical specifications, user acceptance testing.
• Risk and issue identification, communication and resolution.
• Effective communication to management and stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in Front Office Business Management, Change, Project Management or Consulting roles.
• Works in multiple problem spaces and can appropriately prioritize problems / build a roadmap to maximize impact.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational abilities.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.
• Analytical, resourceful, and strategic mindset.
• Effective in meeting deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Highly skilled in PowerPoint and Excel.
• Minimum Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, required.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $160K - $185K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.