MUFG Americas

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 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 vison 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, Ltd., 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 - mufgemea.com.

EMEA Internal Audit Office (EIA), as the Bank’s third Line of defence, and in accordance with the Global Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Standards (IIA Standards), provides independent assurance to the Board and Executive Management on the quality and effectiveness of governance, risk management and internal controls to monitor manage and mitigate key risks to achieving the Bank’s objectives.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

Senior Auditors are responsible for the execution of audit engagements, working within audit teams on the delivery of audit engagements. Delivery and execution of all engagements will adhere to audit methodology and include formal sign-offs of key documents and processes within an audit file.

The successful candidate will also support issue validation, EIA risk assessments and continuous monitoring.

Some travel may be required in the role (less than 15%).

Specifically, key responsibilities of the Senior Auditor will include:

Undertaking effective ongoing monitoring of the primary business areas in the EMEA portfolio covering fourteen risk types to assist the monitoring officer, highlighting key risk issues to the business and EIA management.

Within the portfolio, primary business areas include Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Japanese Corporate Banking, MUFG offices, branches and subsidiaries across EMEA together with product teams in London covering areas such as Project Finance, Aviation, Trade Finance, Securitisation, Leveraged Finance.

• Participate in audit execution including planning, fieldwork, raising and documenting issues identified.
• Assist in aspects of the maintenance of the EIA risk universe, risk assessments and audit plans where required.
• Participate in ongoing monitoring and validation of the prior audit issues.
• Assist and undertake continuous monitoring for areas assigned.
• Build and maintain constructive relationships with key stakeholders and auditees within their engagements.
• Execute and deliver all assigned work to the required methodology standard (Agile), seeking guidance as required.
• Undertake analysis and perform audit testing by applying data analytics solutions.
• Understand and develop knowledge of the primary businesses as outlined above, including their risk and control environment.
• Develop an appreciation of risk and control more generally in banking.
• On occasions, be required to work on team initiatives.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Experience of working in a risk management, compliance or audit function within the Financial Services sector.

Preferred:

• Prior corporate finance experience.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential:

• Knowledge of auditing methodology and industry practices.
• An understanding of banking and financial services.
• Knowledge of corporate and investment banking, compliance and other risks.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, and understanding of basic data analytics concepts.

Preferred:

• Advanced data analytics skills, or prior experience in executing audits with support of the dedicated data analytics team.
• Strong acumen regarding auditing methods and industry practice.
• Corporate finance experience.

Education / Qualifications:

Essential:

• Higher education or equivalent industry experience.

Preferred:

• Relevant industry qualifications e.g. CIA, ACCA, FRM are desirable but not essential.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Good communication and interpersonal skills which allow confident interactions with stakeholders
• Collaborative nature and good team working ethos
• Results driven and proactive with a strong sense of accountability
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work to meet the delivery milestones and avoid overruns
• Demonstrate curiosity and seek out new experiences, ideas and knowledge, seek feedback and learn new things to develop. Learn from mistakes in the organisation and the industry
• Strong problem solving skills, with a creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong numerical 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.

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