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.

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