Assistant Vice President,Middle Office,Agency and Loan Participation 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.

Overall Purpose of Job

Loan Middle Office, within the Operations Division for EMEA is responsible for managing the life cycle of a Loan. The team provides Credit Middle, Loan Transaction management, Facility Agency functions and additional agency function services aligned with the credit facility agreement. The role is responsible for creating, managing and monitoring Risks and controls for Loan middle office tasks across MUFG. Requirement to strengthen the safety and soundness across Loan Middle Office services.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for creating, managing and monitoring Risks and controls for Loan middle office tasks across MUFG.
• Manage and co-ordinate all New Product Approvals across the Loans products, ensuring all new processes and products are approved with a process flow and controls implemented in the teams prior to Go Live.
• Document, co-ordinate and report all Risk across the team including reporting incidents, near misses, self-identified issues.
• Report and co-ordinate Risk items with the first line control team, ensuring all due dates are managed accordingly with actions closed in a timely manner.
• Excellent Client Service when liaising with the Business and key stakeholders.
• Represent Loan Services at Risk Forums with the Business and support function meetings.
• Co-ordinate across Loan Services management team to ensure Risk and Controls are standardised and reported.
• Lead and support key initiatives across EOO Loan Services to ensure EOO is servicing the Business, new deals.
• Build a strong network across the Business and support teams on Loan services with a strong market sound understanding of the Loan Services.
• Continually review and challenge processes and procedures to maximise efficiency and processes that allow highest possible facility usage with a view to maximising the revenue streams, in order to satisfy client and other stakeholders’ requirements.
• Work with Head of LMO to achieve the short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals of the team related to Risk and control management.
• Responsible for working autonomously to resolve operational issues as they arise, and providing, where necessary, the implementation of preventative measures to avoid reoccurrence of incidents.
• Responsible for daily control management and monitoring for Loan Services, working with the Loan Management team to resolve all breaks daily.
• Lead system enhancements and share expertise in the implementation of new systems and/or systems upgrades.

Education

• Minimum GCSE (or equivalent) in core academic subjects.
• A Level (or equivalent) preferred.
• Additional language skills advantageous.

Work Experience

As this is an Assistant Vice President position, the candidate should possess:

• Considerable experience of working within a Financial Institution Middle Office Control function.
• Sound experience of managing and monitoring controls across service teams.
• Good Operational knowledge of the loan market.
• Experience of facilitating and chairing Stakeholders meetings.

Functional/Technical Skills and Knowledge requirements

• Proficient in the standard Microsoft Office suite (e.g. Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel).
• Loan IQ preferred.

Behavioural Competencies

• Integrity and Responsibility.
• Balance Risk with Opportunity.
• Customer Focus.
• Demonstrate Global Perspective.
• Professionalism and Teamwork.
• Collaborate and Build Partnerships.
• Communicate Effectively and Professionally.
• Drive for Results.
• Challenge Ourselves to Grow.
• Lead Change and Seek Continuous Improvement.
• Think Strategically.
• Influence and Inspire Others.
• Manage and Develop Talent.

This advert will close on 23rd November 2025. 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.