CCSO Risk & Governance Initiatives, VP

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.

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.

The CCSO Risk & Governance Vice President (VP) is responsible for leading governance, operational risk, control management, and process transformation initiatives across the Chief Corporate Services Office (CCSO). This role serves as a strategic partner to senior leadership and business stakeholders, driving the design and implementation of effective governance frameworks, sustainable controls, and automation solutions that strengthen the control environment, improve operational efficiency, and support regulatory and audit readiness.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in governance, risk management, controls, process improvement, consulting, audit, or related disciplines, with demonstrated experience leading teams, influencing executives, and delivering large-scale process and automation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance forums, reporting programs, and committee activities across CCSO.
• Oversee risk assessments, control evaluations, testing activities, and remediation efforts.
• Partner with senior leaders, process owners, and SMEs to identify and mitigate risks through effective control design and implementation.
• Provide oversight of issues, findings, action plans, and governance commitments to ensure timely resolution.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks, procedures, standards, process documentation, and control inventories.
• Drive process engineering, continuous improvement, and automation initiatives to enhance efficiency and control effectiveness.
• Sponsor and oversee implementation of workflow, reporting, and automation solutions that improve process execution and monitoring.
• Develop and deliver executive reporting, dashboards, metrics, and management presentations.
• Lead interactions with Audit, Compliance, Risk Management, and Regulatory stakeholders.
• Advise leadership on emerging risks, control gaps, and opportunities to strengthen governance practices.
• Build and lead high-performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to the strategic direction and maturity of CCSO governance, risk, and control programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in governance, risk management, controls, audit, process improvement, consulting, or related disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of governance frameworks, operational risk management, controls, issue management, and regulatory expectations.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives and influencing senior executives.
• Experience developing operating models, governance frameworks, policies, procedures, and control documentation.
• Proven ability to identify and implement process improvements, automation solutions, and scalable operating practices.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred. Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional programs and enterprise transformation initiatives with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint, ServiceNow, or similar workflow and reporting platforms preferred.
• Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or relevant professional certifications preferred.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $125K - $164K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus 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.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.