Technology Program Management, Associate / Assistant Vice President

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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 selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Reports to the EIS Program Manager. As a Project Manager, responsible for managing specific efforts within the project portfolio and supporting one or more functional and/or cross-functional teams. Provides direct project management of IT and non-IT projects supporting strategic initiatives and regulatory requirements. Delivers a cross-functional change management role that requires interaction with management and key stakeholders across Technology and other impacted lines-of-business (LOB). At the project level, coordinates across the LOB delivery teams, technology and data management teams, Enterprise Information Security (EIS), the Technology Delivery Office (TDO) and Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO).

Responsibilities:

• Co-develop project plans with stakeholder leaders, identifying key milestones and deliverables.
• Schedules and facilitate stakeholder meetings, coordinating project plans and gaining consensus.
• Prepares reports, presentations, and other documentation as required by LOB stakeholders, the TDO and the EPMO.   
• Produces and distributes status reporting on project progress, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Ensures projects are on time.
• Conducts project deep-dive meetings with the TDO Program Manager to escalate risk/issues timely.
• Monitors project spending versus budget. 
• Develops accurate project spending forecasts each month.
• Produces project documentation within the required timeframes in accordance with the standards and governance requirements of the IT Project Delivery (ITPD) Methodology, Project Spend and Governance Committee, and TDO guidelines.
• Work with IT teams to coordinate testing, escalate issues, and assist where necessary to ensure a successful go live.
• Coordinates the analysis of business problems including making recommendations to management to help identify methods, procedures, and technologies that enhance recommended solutions and project execution.

Requirements:

• A BA/BS degree and/or equivalent work experience
• Experience in Banking dealing with operations and technology change management, preferably in Finance
• Requires direct experience in business analysis and project leadership and management skills, preferably as a project manager or consultant
• Experience leading and managing projects from start to finish, including specific experience in tight timeline, and/or crisis environments
• PMP Certification preferred

Additional Qualifications:

• Must possess strong leadership skills and be very proactive in approach
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and successfully
• Ability to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization at all levels, and be viewed as a team player.
• Ability to lead through influence and garner support from and for cross functional teams.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues and ideas and communicate effectively within all levels of the organization within and outside of Finance
• Advanced PowerPoint and strong Excel skills
• Ability to organize and conduct effective meetings appropriate for the topic, and facilitate resolution of differing views
• Jira, Confluence and Power BI experience, a plus.

·         The typical base pay range for this role is between $93K - $123K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonuses and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes 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, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

·         MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

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