Head of Governance

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.

The Regulatory Reporting and Governance team has responsibility for Capital and Liquidity prudential regulatory reporting and related internal management information. In addition, the team is responsible for the governance framework for all regulatory returns submitted by the EMEA securities entities and the UK branch of the bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing a governance framework over regulatory reporting.
• Building out the governance framework, agreed with relevant stakeholders and understood by the department.
• Development of the firm wide regulatory reporting framework including the embedding of the Regulatory Returns Submission Policy, across both Finance and the broader organisation.
• Oversight and administration of the regulatory reporting framework and associated controls including, but not limited to, maintenance of the central regulatory reporting inventory and associated attestation processes.
• Develop and communicate a strategic roadmap for delivery of a regional regulatory reporting framework.
• Annual update of Capital and Liquidity reporting policies.
• Interpretation of new regulatory guidance.
• Own and review assumptions including agreeing, approving and documenting of any new assumptions and annual review of key material assumptions.
• Develop an assurance matrix summarising regulatory output.
• Drive regulatory remediation initiatives.
• Imbed the risk and control framework for RRG including self‑identified issues are properly raised, tracked and remediated.
• Ownership and annual update of the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for RRG.
• Close partnering with first line controls team, Operational Risk and Internal Audit.
• Working across teams internationally including in offshored locations.
• Working with cross regional partners to embed the regulatory reporting framework internationally.

Work Experience

Essential: Significant experience in driving implementation of and managing governance frameworks over regulatory reporting. Deep understanding of the UK regulatory framework.

Preferred: Managing onshore and offshore teams.

Skills and Experience

Functional / Technical Competencies

Essential: Experience with risk and control frameworks governing regulatory reporting.

Preferred: Experience in interpreting rules governing regulatory reporting.

Education / Qualifications

Essential: University degree.

Preferred: Accounting qualifications.

Personal Requirements

• Excellent communication skills.
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly.
• Strong decision‑making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• A structured and logical approach to work.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• A creative and innovative approach to work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
• Strong numerical skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills.

For Managerial/Senior roles

• A confident approach, with the ability to provide clear direction to your team.
• Excellent managerial/leadership experience.
• The ability to lead a high performing team.
• A strategic approach, with the ability to lead and motivate your team.
• The ability to articulate and implement the vision/strategy for the Regulatory Reporting and Governance department.

Application Deadline

This advert will close 4th February 2026. 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.

At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client‑obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!

Our Culture Principles

• Client Centric
• People Focused
• Listen Up. Speak Up.
• Innovate & Simplify
• Own & Execute