**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 120,000 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. **OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION** The Financial Crimes Office for EMEA (FCOE) in London is part of the Global Financial Crimes Division (GFCD) headquartered in New York. It works to ensure that our organisation conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our clients within the regulatory and legal framework. It is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protect clients’ assets and to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used to further financial crime. **MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE** The Financial Crimes Office for EMEA has established a Transformation team within the Operations department to help support the delivery of key Financial Crimes initiatives. The role will involve the creation and execution of action plans to implement key initiatives, enhance efficiency as well as close issues and remediate gaps. The role is required to help support the delivery of the new and ongoing change initiatives across the Financial Crimes portfolio. Covering Sanctions, AML and ABC, the role involves close working relationship with the Regional and Global Financial Crimes teams. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES In this role, you will be responsible for supporting Financial Crimes teams deliver key projects across MUFG entities and locations globally. Essentially working with either the FCOE Sanctions, AML or ABC teams to actively progress projects and deliverables to ultimately implement and embed the new initiatives for Financial Crimes. You are responsible for: + Identify and manage the delivery of plans / actions / tasks in order to implement improvements to financial crimes procedures or processes. + Document/update plans, progress, meetings and escalations + Collaborating with various teams across Financial Crimes working with action owners on the implementation of new controls / uplift. + Assist managing the delivery of varied projects and strategic initiatives. + Manage and escalate risks or issues. + Managing and assisting action owners in developing plans, in consultation with the appropriate stakeholders. + Provide the necessary status updates and reporting consistent with agreed timelines. **WORK EXPERIENCE** Essential: + Relevant financial crime experience in a financial services firm, consultancy firm, regulatory agency or law firm **SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE** **Functional / Technical Competencies:** Essential + Broad understanding of banking + Understanding of financial crimes risk and working practices + Understanding of risk, compliance and related controls + Robust stakeholder management and reporting experience + Experience of delivering and managing Projects / Workstreams + Subject Matter Expertise in one or more Financial Crime area + Excellent communication Preferred: + Financial Crime controls ( _processes_ ) knowledge/experience + Experience of working with multi-jurisdictional stakeholders and teams **Education / Qualifications:** Preferred: + Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience **PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS** + Excellent communication and interpersonal skills + Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability + Share the workload, team player and help the team grow its profile and reputation + A proactive, motivated approach + Ability to demonstrate sound judgement + Passionate about Financial Crimes + Ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly with tight deadlines by communicating with stakeholders and the team + A calm diplomatic approach and measured communication, with the ability to prioritise and communicate efficiently + Excellent time management + A structured and logical approach to work and strong problem solving skills + Excellent attention to detail and accuracy + Excellent Microsoft Office skills 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. At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them! **Our Culture Principles** + Client Centric + People Focused + Listen Up. Speak Up. + Innovate & Simplify + Own & Execute