Vice President - Risk and Controls - Global Corporate and Investment Banking

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group • Los Angeles, NY

12h • Hybrid

About The Position

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is seeking a Vice President to join its Global Corporate & Investment Banking (GCIB) Business Unit Risk & Control team. This role is part of the First Line of Defense and leads end-to-end execution of the Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program for assigned business areas. It supports the identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of operational and non-financial risks across corporate and investment banking products and services.

The successful candidate will partner with business, product, operations, compliance, and risk management stakeholders to strengthen the control environment and execute the business unit’s risk management framework. The role requires proactive risk identification, sound assessment, effective controls, and alignment with regulatory expectations and organizational risk appetite. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and remotely one day per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Risk Management, Accounting, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of experience in risk management, operational risk, controls, audit, corporate and investment banking, or a related financial services function.
• Strong understanding of banking products, operational risk frameworks, and control management principles.
• Strong experience with RCSA process documentation, risk and control assessments, and operational risk frameworks.
• Excellent skills in risk assessment analysis, governance, and reporting, and a solid understanding of business and financial markets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical information effectively to diverse audiences.
• Ability to analyze risk trends and identify indicators of changing risk levels.
• Senior stakeholder management experience and ability to establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Ability to work effectively independently and collaboratively.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency with risk and control platforms, data visualization, and analytical tools.
• Experience with OpenPages, Archer, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable systems.

Responsibilities

• Execute the RCSA program across GCIB in partnership with senior business leaders, first-line teams, and enterprise risk stakeholders.
• Conduct RCSA activities, including process and risk taxonomy alignment; inherent-risk assessment; control identification and mapping; control design and operating-effectiveness evaluation; residual-risk determination; issue and action-plan linkage; trigger-based and periodic reassessments; documentation and evidence standards; and system-of-record maintenance.
• Advise business and risk leadership on RCSA standards, risk governance, control effectiveness, emerging risks, and regulatory expectations, providing review, challenge, and recommendations.
• Partner with business, product, process, and control owners to establish clear ownership of risks, controls, issues, and remediation actions.
• Apply regulatory knowledge through the compliance engagement model and embed relevant regulatory impacts and applicability in RCSA activities.
• Develop and present decision-oriented risk and control reporting for senior management and governance committees, covering material exposures, control weaknesses, residual-risk concerns, emerging risks, overdue actions, and matters requiring escalation.
• Establish continuous monitoring metrics and monitor key risk indicators, key control indicators, thresholds, and other risk metrics; identify changes in risk exposure, control performance, loss events, and issue-remediation status; and escalate breaches and adverse trends.
• Support GCIB teams with ad hoc information requests and real-time risk management inquiries.
• Serve as a GCIB subject matter expert and collaborate with Compliance, Legal, Operational Risk, Audit, Technology, and Operations teams to strengthen the control environment.
• Coach junior team members and contribute to team capability development.
• Identify opportunities to use approved automation, analytics, and artificial-intelligence tools to improve RCSA efficiency, consistency, and quality in accordance with information-security, data-privacy, records-management, and technology-risk requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Retirement plans.
• Educational assistance and training programs.
• Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities.
• Paid maternity and parental bonding leave.
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.
• Eligibility for discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior