Assistant Vice President, Cyber PMO - Technology in London

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, 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.

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 create 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.

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. 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.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Control submission of deliverables for Programme Committee and / or Bank Head Office / MUSHD review to avoid late / overdue requests.
• Manage the EMEA Nexus Governance Forum, ensuring the forum calendars are 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.

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the Cyber Portfolio to ensure smooth delivery of the Nexus Programme within the control frameworks defined by MUS, Bank EMEA, Bank Europe, and MENA, in accordance with the project delivery policy, lifecycle, and other key governance standards.

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.
• Previous experience of Planview and Power BI or equivalent toolset.
• MS Office – expert knowledge of Powerpoint, Word, Visio.
• Waterfall project delivery lifecycle knowledge.

Personal Requirements:

• 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.
• Proactive, results driven, with a strong sense of accountability and the ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly.
• Strong understanding of project financial management.

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.