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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.

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 Risk Vice President is responsible for overseeing and strengthening how data risk is identified, assessed, and managed across the organization in alignment with the firm's Data Management Policy. This role ensures data risks are clearly understood, appropriately governed, and effectively controlled to support regulatory obligations, management reporting, and business decision-making. This role requires strong judgment, the ability to operate in ambiguity, and comfort engaging with senior stakeholders across the enterprise.

This position is a senior individual-contributor role with enterprise-wide influence. It does not involve software development, coding, or analytics development.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Risk Oversight & Framework Alignment
  
  • Lead identification and assessment of data risks in alignment with the firm's Data Management Framework, including established standards and non-negotiable requirements
  • Assess risks related to data quality, key data elements, ownership, lineage, controls, and data usage
  • Ensure data risks are evaluated consistently based on potential impact to regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and management decision-making

• Support ongoing framework modernization and simplification efforts
  
  • Data Controls & Control Effectiveness
  • Support design, documentation, and assessment of data-related controls
  • Challenge control design and operating effectiveness where gaps are identified
  • Promote consistent application of data control expectations across the organization

• Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting
  
  • Act as a trusted Data Risk partner to senior stakeholders
  • Lead cross-functional discussions on data risk and remediation priorities
  • Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for senior management and governance forums

Qualifications

• Experience in data risk, data controls, governance, operational risk, compliance, or audit
• Strong risk assessment and judgment capabilities
• Executive-level written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Comfort operating in evolving frameworks and transformation environments

Preferred Skills

• Experience working within a data management or data control frameworks
• Exposure to audit or regulatory data reviews
• Familiarity with data governance or issue management tools (e.g., Collibra)

The typical base pay range for this role is between $121K - $170K 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.