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The Financial Crimes Office for EMEA (FCO EMEA) in London is part of the Global Financial Crimes Division 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 

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In addition to the duties described above, you will contribute to the work of the Financial Crime department in any other ways reasonably expected, including memberships of projects and working groups and assisting with other priorities in the department or group as a whole. 

As a member of the FCOE Technology team, provide the following services to the department:

• Contribute to the development and testing of  EMEA financial crime systems to help minimise the risk that the group is used for financial crime
• Support the delivery of system enhancements and upgrade projects 
• Support testing and where appropriate own testing and preparation of test system results
• Where appropriate support the relevant teams in either tuning or calibration of existing systems for efficiency and effectiveness for EMEA Financial Crime.

Financial Crime Office of EMEA Technology Team Key Responsibilities

The purpose of the role will be to ensure that all EMEA financial crime systems across the region, and associated work processes are working correctly i.e. as expected and appropriately. Responsibilities include managing systems post implementation, testing and support for system implementations and upgrades, effectiveness testing, assurance reviews and responding to ad hoc issues.

Additional responsibilities may include supporting other FCOE teams with the annual and on-going tuning and assurance for EMEA financial crime  systems in the EMEA region and responding to ad hoc requests as required.

Key Responsibilities:

You are responsible for

• Validating the effectiveness and accuracy of EMEA financial crime systems used to prevent financial crime across the region.
• Reporting and presenting to management on identified  risks and industry trends for enhancement
• Taking a lead role in upgrading key systems, including where required and agreed the oversight of testing, working with a Global Testing Team, and oversight of User Acceptance Testing (for the system users)
• Supporting regional and local teams with compliance and governance requirements as stated in the Global Technology Standard.
• Supporting on-going and new FCOE-related projects, driving and informing business requirements from a Financial Crime Technology perspective.
• Being a key contact for escalations from multiple 1st and 2nd Line teams across EMEA on financial crime system-related queries and issues.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• 1-3 years relevant experience in a financial services firm

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential

• Broad understanding of financial crime systems and in banking, and a general understanding of the concepts of risk management and control
• Strong understanding of testing, tuning, validation and assurance of financial crime systems
• Experience of testing or performing analytics on financial crime systems
• Understanding of EMEA wide TM or Sanctions regulations/standards, banking products and the UK regulatory environment and strong knowledge of IT and systems.
• Previous experience using, testing and/or tuning transaction monitoring systems such as SironAML, Actimize, BAE NetReveal, FinScan, HotScan etc.
• Experience with project management and delivery
• Experience, interacting with stakeholders and financial crime system vendors at a senior level
• Experience in report and methodology writing and delivery to non-technical audiences

Education / Qualifications:

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving skills
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
• Strong numerical skills
• 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.