Vice President, Cyber Risk BA Team Lead

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.

• MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

  As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

  MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges.  The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.

  Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.

  Main Purpose of the Role :

  Specifically, you have accountability for the following named departments, this includes:
  
  [Technology / Technology Innovation Management/ Business Analyst Team]
   

  Key Responsibilities:

  Specifically, you will be accountable and responsible for taking appropriate action with respect to the Company’s and [MUFG Securities EMEA plc/Technology/Technology Innovation Management/Business Analyst Team], including:

  Generic Business Analyst Skills

• Performing requirements gathering and compiling formal Business Requirements and Functional Specification documents.
• Covering all aspects of Business Analyst engagement throughout the Project Development lifecycle including but not limited to:
  • Formulating and presenting proposed solutions to the business users. This may incorporate illustrative calculations using production data.
  • Formulating testing approaches and compiling test plans and test cases.
  • Performing system/integration testing and supporting business users with user acceptance testing.
  • Compiling and presenting test results.
  • Completing project/work-stream status reports.
  • Escalating issues/risks to project/line management.
• Supporting both Project Managers and business partners through SME and problem skills. Acting as an advisor on appropriate TEC solutions with a solid understanding of the vendor landscape.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to support understanding and resolution of issues with evidence-based findings.
• Excellent communication skills with a focus on stakeholder management for ensuring delivery success across the Change portfolio but also acting as a representative and key partner for the business for TEC in a wider capacity.
• Strong TEC skills with the ability to perform sql queries and be self-reliant on systems analysis. Advanced excel is also required.

• •       A strong proactive approach with Senior technology management communications and relationships, being able to deliver concise information to allow accurate and informed decision making. The individual should be a trusted advisor of Technology management as well as Senior business stakeholders.

• Ownership of Risks, Issues and Dependencies across project work, ensuring proactive actions are taken to avoid escalations.
• Provide MI/ KPIs for your BA pillar.

• Personal values

• Conduct themselves in a manner commensurate with company values
• Lead by example in building relationships across the bank, establishing a strong peer network and helping to strengthen collaboration.
• Leading by example by being a consistent role model on supporting and enforcing company policies around office attendance, office arrival times and sitting with the BA team to ensure collaboratively working with the team. Being flexible around the days in the office depending on business needs.
• Excellent communication skills are required both written and verbal. Ability to build positive collaborative working relationships with Technology, Change Managers and Business stakeholders.
• A continuous improvement mind set and proactive attitude to process improvements and using new technology.
• Maintain and enhance good working relationships with stakeholders, across the region and globally to share best practices, provide support and develop effective local policies and procedures appropriate to the Company, and work in support of the One MUFG and overall Group strategy.

• Specific Domain Knowledge ()

• Product knowledge:
• Business knowledge:
  • Strong understanding of Identity & Access Management (IAM) frameworks, including identity lifecycle management (joiner–mover–leaver), authentication vs authorisation, and access provisioning models
  • Deep knowledge of Privileged Access Management (PAM) concepts, including privileged account types
  • Expertise in core access control principles, including least privilege, segregation of duties (SoD), and role‑based access control (RBAC), with the ability to identify and mitigate access risks in complex environments
  • Understanding of IAM/PAM governance models, including access certification (recertification), entitlement reviews, approval workflows, and audit evidence requirements
  • Knowledge of identity and access architecture, including integration between directory services, applications, and PAM solutions
  • Awareness of cyber risk and control frameworks, including regulatory expectations (e.g. PRA, ECB, EBA, FCA) and how they translate into access controls and monitoring requirements
  • Understanding of operational IAM/PAM processes, including onboarding systems into PAM platforms, managing service accounts, and handling exception access
  • Awareness of evolving cyber security practices, including zero‑trust principles, identity‑centric security, and integration with broader cyber risk programmes
• Applications knowledge
  • A solid understanding of RSA, ServiceNow, Cyber Ark
• Technical knowledge: Ability to self-service on systems analysis requiring advanced excel and some basic sql.

• Additional projects/work

• Support the Head of the Business Analyst Team with wider department and divisional initiatives in strategy and innovation.
• A champion for the use of AI across the BA team and implementing within your pillar.
• Business Analysts will be asked to share knowledge as part of the Business Analysis Centre of Excellence (BACoE) forum.
• Providing subject matter expertise to support TEC initiatives, as required e.g. presenting solutions to other parts of the organization.
• Business analysts are required to support initiatives as side of the desk work outside assigned project work.

• Support Training & Development

• All business analysts have a responsibility to actively support training/ knowledge sharing across the team
• Business Analysts are required to support our new graduates and more junior members of staff through regular knowledge sharing.

• 1) Technical Capability (if applicable)
  You are responsible for
  
  2) People (If applicable)
  You will manage the following matters, appropriate for above departments, including:
  
  [authority] for building (via recruitment, restructuring and internal development) a team of high-quality professionals that will achieve the objectives of the broader MUFG Group to leverage the strategic advantages;
  
  [accountable] for ensuring that all staff in your remit are fully trained and understand what is required of them in order to do their jobs effectively, including ensuring that job descriptions, objectives/personal development and performance reviews are provided for all staff at least once a year in accordance with Human Resources requirements, continually monitoring their competency in order to meet the requirements of the relevant regulator’s training and competency regime, handling appropriately any grievance or disciplinary issues; and
  
  [accountable] for ensuring that any responsibilities that you have delegated to other staff, including those in respect of regulatory obligations (where applicable), are appropriately apportioned and controlled. Ensure that the staff in question have a clear understanding of these duties so as to ensure that the business and affairs of the function can be adequately monitored and controlled
  
  
  3) Relationship with other functions and stakeholders
  
  Maintain and enhance good working relationships with stakeholders, across the region and globally to share best practices, provide support and develop effective local policies and procedures appropriate to the Company, and working in support of the One MUFG and overall Group strategy.
  
  
  4) Performance and Duties
  
  The role holder will be assessed in accordance with their employing entity’s performance framework and process with relevant input obtained from the dual hatting entity as relevant.
  
  As duties and responsibilities change, the job description will be reviewed and emended in consultation with the role holder. The role holder will carry out other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the role as requested by their line manager or Department Head.
  
  Managing conflicts of interest/dual hat status (If Applicable)
  The role holder will have responsibilities for both MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc.
  
  The role holder will be required to perform their duties and responsibilities on an entity neutral basis, without favour.
  
  The role holder is required to follow regulatory requirements applicable to ensure each business is appropriately supported and to maintain the legal entity integrity of each of MUFG Bank and MUS.
  
  Working terms are dictated by functional mandates, the terms of the Dual-Hat Arrangement Agreement in place between MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc and any other relevant agreements entered into between MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc.
  
  The role holder will have responsibility for identifying and resolving where there may be a difference or conflict in needs between MUFG Bank and MUFG Securities EMEA plc, escalating to their manager where required.

  Skills and Experience:

• Excellent communication skills - both written and oral
• A strong delivery track record and someone who can really take ownership of the ** initiatives
• Experience of managing a team of senior technology professionals within a top tier bank or consultancy.
• Experience of successfully delivering large scale projects (preferably with an international scope).
• Confidence and gravitas are required to interact with senior managers within the bank.
• Business analysis experience working for a top tier bank or consultancy.
• A thorough understanding of the project life cycle and experience of compiling proposal, scope, requirements and testing documents.
• Knowledge of software development life cycles.

• Personal Requirements:

• Ability and experience of working under pressure - both autonomously and within a team
• Ability to liaise with business and IT stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Work experience in the securities Industry, preferably in a similar role
• Proactive and self-starting individual with high levels of ownership
• Strong analytical skills
• Proven ability to organise and prioritise own workload and drive results
• Flexibility to adapt to urgent tasks as well as undertaking longer-term solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills together with the ability to influence others and make decisions
• Strong problem-solving skills with a logical approach
• The ability to collaborate and partner across the firm
• High attention to detail

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.