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 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.

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.

EDUCATION
• Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
CERTIFICATIONS
• PMP certification preferred
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Technology program management experience in large, cross-organizational projects, prioritizing competing demands, scoping large efforts, and negotiating timelines
• Strong experience within a technology organization in the banking or financial services industries. Regulatory reporting domain exposure a plus
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and diverse projects and initiatives including analytical thinking, planning, prioritizing, problem solving, decision-making, and carrying out assigned projects and activities with minimal supervision
• Successfully managed large scale and complex initiatives independently, from start to finish, with a duration of at least 6 months
• Prior business analyst experience and/or operational expertise preferred
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools preferred
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
• Understands the business, industry, and the role IT places in driving financial success
• Proficient with SDLC project and process management tools and methodologies
• Proficient in process and data modeling, architectural development methodologies, and IT planning methodologies; extensive knowledge of the enterprise's business and decision-making processes
• Ability to understand technical requirements (both software and hardware) and technology implementation steps relative to the assigned programs; along with ability to translate and summarize this into business and program level terminology
• Deep knowledge across multiple technical environments and strong business acumen
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end technology project process with ability to drive out dependencies and sequence the work in an efficient manner
• Experience with agile, scrum, or hybrid methodologies
• Ability to negotiate with vendors and obtain beneficial terms for software and services agreements in support of project delivery
• Ability to build, lead and empower an interdisciplinary, geographically disbursed team
• Understanding of 'big picture' organizational goals and vision, ability to align strategically to these goals and deliver value to stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to manage software release risks, including holding releases when necessary
• Penchant for continuous improvement and adaptation, introducing new processes or delivery methods as needed
• Previous experience delivering complex data-driven solutions on regulatory reporting applications such as OneSumX, Lombard Regulatory Reporter and Axiom
• Planning and process orientation
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint (and other Microsoft 365 tools), MS Project, SharePoint, Jira, Visio
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
• Demonstrates leadership
• Communicates effectively
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
• Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
• Collaborates with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
• Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
• Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
• Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity
• Iterative problem-solving
• Serving as a trusted advisor
• Excellent organizational skills
• Detail-oriented and experienced with reporting to senior management
• Good consensus builder; ability to drive large scale initiatives
• Ability to work across organizations and through obstacles
RESPONSIBILITIES
High Level Responsibilities:
• Lead teams to support projects on implementation issues. Develop and execute review sessions for high-impact projects. Develop descriptions for project justification, plans, roles, responsibilities and reporting structure.
• Providing training and consulting for project managers and administrators. Providing technical and analytical guidance to project teams. Setting frequency and type of interactions, extent of involvement for stakeholders and developing a dispute resolution process.
• Monitoring the effectiveness of project management methodology and tools; recommending improvements to these, as appropriate. Ensures effective communication flow among business process owners, project team members and all IT functions who participate and impact the results of the project development effort.
• Implementing enhancements and upgrading project management process and tools. Develops proposals, work plans, training plans, budgets and reports of IT projects.
Details:
• Perform hands-on program management for multiple technology development projects and teams
• Establish project governance, working groups, and communication with stakeholders
• Stay abreast of industry trends, actively adopting new practices and techniques to accelerate delivery
• Partner with business, program management, architecture, system owner, 3rd party vendors, testing and other teams as necessary to ensure
• successful delivery
• Drive planning at the various organizational levels to ensure projects are on track/resourced
• Ensure timetable and deliverable schedules are understood and communicated
• Manage dependencies proactively, coordinate across teams to resolve issues and mitigate risks
• Align, plan, and precisely manage activities and dependencies across development teams to ensure cohesive delivery
• Contribute to executive-level updates on strategy, budget, project delivery, controls, risks, etc.
• Organize and provide oversight on required reporting for business and technology management review sessions
• Track financials related to technology expenditures including software, hardware, and resource allocation
• Ensure the capital investment of the firm is managed efficiently; manage project budget to ensure maximum allotments are not exceeded
• Manage stakeholders and customers
• Negotiate business and IT resources for project allocation
• Negotiate vendor proposals and manages vendor relationships