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Overview of the Department/Section:
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.
MUFG conducts securities business internationally through its overseas subsidiaries MUFG Securities EMEA plc, MUFG Securities Americas Inc., MUFG Securities Asia Limited. and MUFG Securities Asia (Singapore) Limited. With each member of the group working in partnership with one another, MUFG provides best in class service and products to corporate and institutional clients.
MUFG Securities EMEA plc is the European hub of MUFG’s securities business. Headquartered in London we have just over 600 employees and are active throughout the international capital markets, focusing on debt, equity, derivatives and structured products. Due to the diverse nature of our business we require a clear unifying vision for all of our people. It is this vision and our corporate values that reflect who we are and guide how we behave. We therefore strive to recruit individuals who share our vision and values, and who have the motivation and commitment to help us move our business forward.
The Corporate Technology Department provides a full IT service to all business areas of the MUS overseas subsidiary companies. The Credit Risk IT team is responsible for implementing and supporting systems for calculating and reporting consolidated Credit Risk across all locations.
Main purpose of the role :
The Credit Risk Analytics IT team is responsible for designing, integrating and supporting Middle Office Risk systems in the organisation using the third party S&P Global Financial Risk Analytics (FRA) simulation and pricing engine that provides cross-asset coverage to calculate various Credit Risk measures. FRA platform fraimWRX is distributed as AKS images. FraimWRX relies on Redis, Apache Kafka, Spark, HBASE and HDFS. Risk technology are using Kubernetes to deploy fraimWRX with a Python. An in-house .NET based application layer integrates the FRA into MUFG proprietary systems.
Risk Technology has evolved rapidly over the last few years as new regulation and industry change is being introduced post the financial crisis. The Risk projects require large scale change to the organisation technical infrastructure including the Risk platform. Alongside these the organisation is seeking to consolidate systems across the globe to improve efficiencies, help standardise our products and strengthen our brand. This will include efforts to adopt cloud and other new forms of digital technology.
The successful candidate’s primary role as part of the Risk IT Analytics team will be to support the rollout further enhancements of the Risk IT platform to meet the demands of ongoing and challenging regulatory change. The infrastructure uses a combination of technologies including MS SQL Server, C#, Python and MS Azure. The role will be focused on the development of the Risk system using new technologies to provide innovative solutions to enhance the capabilities of the Risk Management department.
The suitable candidate would have hands-on technical experience of implementing PFE analytic solutions preferably in cloud computing environments using .NET tech stack. Development experience using the S&P Global Financial Risk Analytics (FRA) Risk/Pricing platform is required.
The candidate should have a solid understanding of financial products such as IR Derivatives, Mortgage Backed Securities, Repos, Stock Borrow Lending and Ageny Lending.
Essential characteristics of the candidate include strong problem solving, good communication and attention to detail.
Previous experience working within a middle or front office Risk technology area is desirable although a strong track record of comparable experience in other areas within finance is also acceptable.
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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.
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