Data Serving (Data Management, Data Analytics), Associate Vice President

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.

Job Summary:

The Data Service Layer Delivery – Global Corporate & Investment Banking team is focused on a transformative journey that will support our data strategy on how we develop and deliver critical business outcomes, in addition to how we engage with partners across MUFG for Data, AI, and BI services.

Our team is seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join as Assistant Vice President, Data Serving, to support projects and BAU work efforts. We’re looking for someone known for effectively bridging IT and business teams, with an ability to masterfully speak the language of both. This is a highly visible and impactful position as the role requires facing off to business stakeholders and liaising with technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical, and understandable way in supporting the product owners. The successful candidate must be able to deliver whilst adopting an agile methodology and managing project timelines and risks.

This role will collaborate with a small data and reporting team, focusing on technology adoption, process optimization, and the continuous delivery of Data, AI, and BI products and services.

 Major Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a deeper understanding of data & reporting needs for Financial Crimes, Compliance, Wholesales Lending, Investment Banking and Transaction Banking businesses.
• Develop and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders to understand their business challenges and identify how Data Solutions can support their objectives.
• Engage with business stakeholders to solicit and manage requests that equitably handle competing priorities across business teams. Determine what can realistically be completed based on resource capacity and budgets.  Evaluate multiple scenarios to identify the optimal mix of projects and work. 
• Manage incremental deliverables while centralizing important information so that everyone’s always on the same page. Spotlight issues that need attention. Proactively manage changes and issues.
• Visualize dependencies across programs, projects and BAU work, and applications – understand relationships and optimize delivery.
• Lead the initial discovery process for prioritized scope of work by uncovering high-level business requirements.    
• Develop deep understanding of upstream dependencies / origins of data products and generate meaningful data-driven insights, present findings to various partners, identify potential issues with the data, build quality checks and continually track enhancements required to maintain data consistency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years technology industry experience in Banking & Financial Services sector.
• 5+ years of experience in data management, data analytics.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or related.

Data skills

• Must have experience in Data analysis, including creating complex SQL queries.
• Must have experience in Reg Reporting concepts and cross reporting analysis.
• Must have experience in Data warehousing and/or Data Lakes, and Data Marts.
• Working knowledge of 3NF data models, dimensional data models, etc. 
• Experience with data models associated with financial data domains.
• Experience with GL and other reconciliations.

Technical Skills

• Must have experience in Jira, Confluence, MS office.
• Must have familiarity with Data Integration/ETL tools.
• Proficiency in SQL, Handling Files using Python, Hive Query Language.
• Must have Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, etc. a plus.
• Must have experience with relational Databases such as Oracle, MS SQL Server etc.
• Experience/Knowledge in Snowflake and Starburst is a plus.
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools like Business Objects, Tableau or Power BI is a plus.

Business Acumen

• Must have experience in one or more domains including Risk Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, GL and Customer & Product Profitability.
• Expertise in business requirements analysis, design, functional & detail design
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements (e.g. BCBS 239, GDPR, etc.).
• Understanding of data pipelines associated with Risk & Regulatory Reporting.
• Experience preparing user stories, data flows, and product technical specifications.

Human Skills

• Strong organizational, communication (verbal & written), and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to present both in person and virtually to senior management and train client audiences on a business and technical level.
• Demonstrated ability in building consensus across business areas and other stakeholders to support new ways of thinking about capabilities and values.
• Candidates must have the ability to quickly transition as priorities change.

Education:

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”

The typical base pay range for this role is between $121k - $146k 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.

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.