Vice President in Finance Technology

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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.

About the Role

Position Title   : Technical Team Lead - Finance Technollogies                  

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location          : MGS - Bengaluru                 

Job Profile

Position details

With your deep expertise and proven success using analytical thinking and iterative problem-solving, you have what it takes to manage programs and processes strategically and tactically. Whether balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders or making sound decisions using data, analysis, past experience, and a risk mindset, you will serve as a trusted advisor who routinely solves complex business problems and delivers against milestones. In the process, you will have exciting opportunities to develop your skills, expand your network, and build your career. 

Roles and Responsibilities

• This position will be directly responsible for managing the offshore team and the delivery of the assignments to offshore for the Finance Technology team
• Direct software engineering tasks and participate in the design, development, and deployment of applications and processes required to fulfill specific business requirements
• Validates and ensures that functional requirements are met.
• Conducts formal implementation reviews.
• Successful candidates will have 12+ years of experience managing large and vried technical team in the financial services industry / vertical.
• Candidates with experience implementing EPM / ERP and / or OFSAA solutions for large banks is good to have.
• Document and implement best practices, conduct code reviews and highlight opportunities to use advanced features to keep code optimal, readable and clean.
• Responsible for offshore deliverables and resources
• Provides formal and informal user training and general user support.
• Functions as an internal consultant for the applications support team.
• Expert/lead technical role.
• Works on large, complex projects that have enterprise wide impact and require subject matter expertise of multiple process improvement areas and mastery of process improvement tools.
• Works as a project team member on multiple projects to facilitate process improvements involving multiple sites or business areas, often as a project leader.
• Lead responsibilities include directing, monitoring and assigning work to those on the team.
• Provides technical work guidance or mentoring to a small project team of 4 – 6 members.
• May provide input to the managers/supervisor on staff performance.
• Coaches and mentors more junior staff.

Job Requirements:

Bachelors’ Degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Experience in the financial services or banking industry is preferred.

• Minimum 12+ years of offshore team / people management experience, especially in an onshore-offshore work mode.
• Experience in playing liaison role between onshore-offshore, enabling team members to perform their day-to-day job activities and handling conflicts & escalations.
• Good people management/interpersonal skills
• Minimum 7 years of developing and managing teams with varied technical skills in the financial services vertical.
• Experience implementing Oracle packaged solutions like Enterprise Performance Cloud Service and / or, Oracle ERP Cloud Services is a big plus.
• Experience in Banking or Financial Services Technology with a good understanding of Banking and financial instrument accounting.
• Experience in implementing OFSAA for Profitability or Liquidity Risk is plus.
• Experience with Data Integration and ETL
• Experience implementing and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Experience in designing data models and structures to store various kinds of data in different formats.
• Experience with RDBMS based databases such as Oracle and SQL Server
• Experience designing ad-hoc reports or templates utilizing Smart-View Add-in
• Knowledgeable in user provisioning and administration of Oracle SaaS applications
• Knowledgeable on Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Great to have experience with Oracle Essbase, Hyperion Planning, HFM (11.1.2+), Oracle DRM (11.1.2+). Oracle Fusion, Financial Ledgers
• Comfortable navigating dynamic environments, ambiguity and being a catalyst to drive decisions
• Ability to effectively uncover, align and manage stakeholders needs and expectations
• Action oriented - escalates and resolves issues in a timely manner
• Understands financial planning, project budgeting, and expense tracking to successfully manage project budgets to completion
• Working knowledge of complex technology systems implementations, with ability to effectively communicate with technology and business partners

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.