Vice President, Operational Resilience Governance, MI & Change Lead

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 120,000 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.

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As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision 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.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS: After probation 1

OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE: Responsible for overseeing and reporting on the Operational Resilience framework, tools and methodologies in line with regulatory requirements to enable the achievement of MUFG's strategic objectives. This framework covers regulatory requirements across the UK (FCA/PRA) and the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

Responsible for establishing collaborative relationships across MUFG entities in the UK and Europe, using excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, the role will influence and advise senior management to realise intended benefits. The role holder will support the ongoing maturity of the Operational Resilience Framework, in particular utilising the Framework to assess the impact of Change projects within the business from an operational resilience perspective.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for developing, embedding and managing the Operational Resilience framework, tools and methodologies in line with regulatory requirements to enable the achievement of MUFG's strategic objectives.
• Responsible for building awareness and understanding of Operational Resilience across the firm, ensuring on line LEAP training is kept up to date and delivered on an annual basis.
• Responsible for maintaining strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, helping Service Owners, Resource Owners and Operational Resilience Coordinators perform their duties in line with regulatory expectations.
• Responsible for coordinating operational resilience governance forums including maintaining diary entries, attendance tracking and membership.
• Ensure regular Management Information is up to date and correct.
• Responsible for ensuring all documentation related to operational resilience is updated in line with governance and regulatory requirements.
• Be the central point of contact for Change Management projects and lead on providing assurance around operational resilience requirements across the project lifecycle.
• Support the creation of the UK Operational Resilience Regulatory Self-Assessment.
• Be the central point of contact for all internal audits, ensuring submission of evidence as part of the scoping is fit for purpose.
• Central point of contact for operational resilience regulatory changes on the horizon, conducting an impact analysis.

Skills and knowledge required:

• Detailed knowledge of the Operational Resilience Policy Statements (March 2021).
• Knowledge of EU Digital Operational Resilience Act requirements.
• Knowledge of Operational Risk, methodologies and best practice.
• Experience of working with Change projects or functions.
• Understanding of project development lifecycle / change management methodologies.

Leadership skills:

• Ability to identify and resolve risks and issues, or prompt escalation to management if they are not able to be resolved.
• Use project management experience and knowledge to drive focus on effective and timely delivery of activities.
• Ability to develop solutions to complex problems and makes recommendations to management.

Communication & Influencing skills:

• Advocate for operational resilience and builds strong relationships with senior stakeholders across all business areas.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships across the business, working closely with internal stakeholders.

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.