Vice President, Finance Programme Manager

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 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.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 Finance Portfolio is part of the Project Promotion team which delivers EMEA and global projects within the planned schedule and budget.Number of Direct Reports2-3 Consultants / Contractors as part of the wider project delivery team.Main Purpose of the Role
The successful candidate will be part of the Finance Portfolio Change function, reporting into the Portfolio Head and its corresponding delegate on a regular basis.The Program Manager is responsible across each program/project for ensuring quality, outcomes, timelines and cost requirements are met. Among other Project Management tasks, the candidate will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of RAID logs, Business Justification documents, and Status reporting activities.The Program Manager will need to have extensive experience in Financial Institutions. Strong communication and interpersonal skills is a must, and candidates must have a well-organized structured approach to managing medium to large projects and work well with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and consultants.To engage key staff in Business and Technology team (as well as other key stakeholders from other departments) who are impacted by the portfolio of investment and (in-scope) expense projects.To provide accurate, and concise, point-in-time reporting to all stakeholders, generated from golden source tools including the General Ledger, and PPM (Portfolio, Program, Project Management) tools.Key Responsibilities
Co-ordination across projects / work streams and across wider program to ensure synergies are identified and optimizedPartner with key stakeholders across the business, technology and external vendors, understand external regulatory expectations and industry standards, where appropriateOversee analysis / output and form clear recommendations and proposals that are based on sound business rationale ensuring consensus and collaboration with functional partners required to opine or sign offRun and manage steering committees (if required), working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against planned timelines.Be a trusted partner functional stakeholders and Planning department ensuring updates, issues and consensus is effectively managed and delivered.Manage implementation deliveries ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners.Develop detailed project plans incorporating inputs from all project participants, and report on status of deliverables.Manage the project costs against budget and report status update on the project budget.Experience in implementation of Finance Programs (Finance Transformations, Process Digitalization, Regulatory projects) is a must to ensure quick understanding of content and anticipating risks or issues. Overall responsibility for delivering complex change projects from initiation through to build, deployment and handover to the businessWork Experience
Essential:Experience in successfully leading full lifecycle complex projectsMinimum 10 years proven track record delivering projects to financial institutions within time and budget.Strong governance approach to deliveryEffective communication and leadershipExperience of working with and negotiating contracts for vendors and consultanciesPreferred:Strong knowledge of banking regulations and running regulatory projects.Good understanding of financial products and front-to-back processes.Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skill sets and across the organisation.Coaching, mentoring and leadership skillsExcellent communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels.Proven experience of managing budgets.Skills and Experience
Functional / Technical Competencies:EssentialProven experience and expert understanding of delivering through full project lifecycle SDLC/PDLC using waterfall and agile approachesStrong project delivery and deadline managementFinancial – cost categorization (capital vs expense)Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skillsets and across the international organisationDirect experience in managing multiple functional stakeholder (senior level) and consultants to derive clear and tangible outcomesExperience with identifying project outputs and tracking Business benefits.Familiarity with / experience of adhering to key controls (including SOX, project delivery standards, third party risk management, operational resilience management, operational risk management, data protection and financial services regulations)Education / Qualifications
Preferred:Relevant qualifications / accreditations e.g. Prince2, PMI, Six Sigma or other.Personal Requirements
Excellent communication skillsResults driven, with a strong sense of accountabilityA proactive, motivated approach.The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordinglyStrong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgementA structured and logical approach to workStrong problem solving skillsA creative and innovative approach to workExcellent interpersonal skillsThe ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlinesExcellent attention to detail and accuracyA calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized environmentStrong numerical skillsExcellent Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office and other Project Management tool skillsFor Managerial/Senior rolesA confident approach, with the ability to provide clear direction to your teamExcellent managerial/leadership experienceThe ability to lead a high performing teamA strategic approach, with the ability to lead and motivate your teamThe ability to articulate and implement the vision/strategy for the Technology departmentWe 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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