VP- Resilience Standards 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.

This pivotal role offers you the opportunity to shape and deliver resilience standards across MUFG’s EMEA operations, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations from the UK, EU, and Middle Eastern authorities. You will be instrumental in translating complex regulations into actionable frameworks that safeguard business continuity and support organisational growth.

What you'll do:

• Support the Lead of Resilience Standards in shaping and delivering the operational resilience standards capability within the EMEA region, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Own and maintain specific elements of the identification and mapping of Important Business Services (IBS) and Critical or Important Functions (CIFs), guaranteeing consistency, traceability, and regulatory alignment.
• Contribute to the calibration and periodic review of impact tolerances by translating regulatory expectations into practical and measurable metrics for the organisation.
• Translate relevant regulatory requirements from FCA/PRA, DORA, and Middle East frameworks into clear, actionable standards that support business units and second line teams in interpretation and implementation.
• Define and maintain technology resilience and Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) standards to ensure alignment with broader resilience objectives and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain and enhance assigned components of the scenario library to support credible assurance and testing activities aligned with regulator requirements.
• Engage proactively with stakeholders across Operational Resilience functions—including Assurance & Testing, Crisis Management, and Business teams—to ensure standards are understood, adopted, and effectively embedded.
• Support the Head of Operational Resilience with oversight committees or practitioners forums as required, contributing to governance deliverables that influence business strategy regionally and globally.
• Analyse risk and effectiveness of regional operational resilience reporting arrangements; identify actions to improve overall reporting quality for the function.
• Develop staff training programmes as needed to enhance understanding of operational resilience standards throughout the organisation.

What you bring:

• Demonstrated experience in developing operational resilience frameworks within financial services or regulated environments.
• In-depth knowledge of UK (FCA/PRA), EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and Middle Eastern regulatory regimes relevant to operational resilience.
• Proven ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear standards that can be implemented across business units.
• Strong analytical skills for calibrating impact tolerances and evaluating risk reporting arrangements within large organisations.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement capabilities with a track record of building collaborative relationships across first, second, and third lines of defence.
• Experience in defining technology resilience requirements and managing Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) standards within a regulated context.
• Ability to maintain scenario libraries for assurance activities aligned with regulator expectations.
• Effective communication skills for delivering staff training programmes on operational resilience topics.
• Commitment to compliance with internal policies as well as external rules from multiple regulatory authorities.
• A collaborative approach that supports inclusive culture-building through teamwork and knowledge sharing.

What sets this company apart:

MUFG stands out as one of the world’s leading financial institutions with a strong presence across EMEA. The company is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where every team member feels valued for their unique contributions. Employees benefit from supportive leadership focused on personal development through comprehensive training programmes tailored to individual growth aspirations. Flexible working opportunities allow you to balance professional responsibilities with personal commitments while generous pension contributions provide long-term security.

MUFG’s dedication to compliance ensures stability even amidst changing regulatory landscapes—making it an ideal environment for those who value dependability alongside innovation. The organisation’s global reach means your work has real impact not only locally but also internationally; you’ll be part of a network that shares knowledge freely while nurturing talent through communal support structures. With a reputation built on trustworthiness and responsible governance practices, MUFG offers you both challenge and reward as you help shape its future direction within operational resilience.

What's next:

If you are ready to take your career forward by joining a globally respected institution where your expertise will make a difference every day—apply now! Apply today by clicking on the link provided. This advert will close 25th November 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.