Assistant Vice President, Cyber PMO - Technology

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with around 3,000 offices in more than 50 markets. The Group has over 180,000 employees, and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

The Cyber Portfolio delivers projects to meet IT Risk & Cyber security strategies, to reduce risk and maintain IT Security protection, governance, risk management and reporting. In 2026/27, the Cyber Portfolio is delivering a large program of work (Project Nexus), overseeing the strengthening of cybersecurity governance across EMEA (working under the directive of Tokyo Head Office). PJ Nexus involves setting up Centers of Excellence and standardizing processes and tools across the various regions of MUFG.

This role sits within the Cyber Portfolio Function & is primarily focused on working with the Head of Cyber Portfolio to manage the delivery of the scope of PJ Nexus. The role reports to the Head of Cyber Portfolio.

The role is responsible for delivery management reporting, planning, and supporting the Cyber Portfolio / Programme Leads in the implementation of the portfolio strategy – especially focusing on PJ Nexus as mentioned above. The role involves close collaboration with Head Office (Tokyo) Global PJ Nexus PMOs, Persons In Charge (PICs) leading the various initiatives under the PJ Nexus umbrella, the Cyber Portfolio Head, Cyber Programme Leads and Cyber Project Managers as well as the Project Governance team, to ensure effective delivery and governance.

• Support and guide the Portfolio Manager, Accountable Executive and Programme / Project Managers in planning, controlling, monitoring and organizing the Nexus book of work, ensuring compliance with governance and reporting and that the book of work is within delivery capability and resource capacity.
• Own and drive Nexus programme and project reporting e.g. the creation of the monthly Nexus reporting pack from updates made by programme and project managers in Planview; creation of minutes and MI tailored for the target audience.
• Review and critique deliverables produced across the programme / projects for completeness and accuracy against Head Office Nexus GPMO (Group PMO) standards; and provide structured feedback to project managers.
• Manage the EMEA Nexus Governance Forum, and the various regular forum as instituted by HO GPMO, ensuring the forum calendars is aligned across the region.
• Partner with other PMO in Business unit and teams in Project Governance to continually improve project, programme and portfolio governance, controls, methods and tools.

Essential:

• Minimum 8 years proven track record in executive reporting and financial process delivery and oversight.
• Accounting experience in understanding project cost categorisation and impact to broader financial reporting of an entity.
• Planview or similar PPM tool – prior experience as an end user; good understanding of the data model and extraction / manipulation of large data sets from Planview.
• Excel – advanced standard; knowledge of how to use excel formulae to create month end deliverables.
• Oracle financials or equivalent toolset – experience in Payables module.

Essential:

• Financial – cost categorization (capital vs expense).
• Project / Portfolio management including change control.
• Lessons learned / post implementation review delivery.
• Change Risk management.

Essential:

• Formal project management training (e.g. Prince II Foundation, PMI, APM) required.
• A level education or equivalent.

Excellent interpersonal, relationship and communication skills, able to collaborate and partner with all areas of Change, Technology and the business. Demonstrable track record of excellent stakeholder management, managing multiple stakeholders and proven ability to deal professionally with senior management.