Financial Risk Data Governance & Controls, Analyst
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.
We are on an exciting journey to improve the quality, control, and accessibility of our risk and business data to enable timely, well-informed financial risk decisions across Market, Interest Rate, Credit, and Liquidity risk. This role is ideal for candidates with 2+ years of banking experience in key financial risk environments who are curious, organized, and comfortable partnering with stakeholders. The selected candidate will help ensure that financial risk data is clearly defined, understood, and used consistently across the organization. They will partner with stakeholders across respective risk stripes to document data meaning, ownership, and controls; identify data quality issues or risks; and support improvements to data quality and transparency for financial risk processes and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
• Partner with financial risk business teams to understand how risk is managed and consumed
• Help document and clarify financial risk data definitions, business rules, and ownership
• Support data quality and issue management activities
• Ask thoughtful questions to identify gaps, inconsistencies, control breaks, or unclear financial risk processes
• Assist in preparing clear summaries, presentations, and documentation for business teams and leadership audiences (e.g., data issue themes, operational impacts, and remediation status)
• Learn and apply data governance standards, policies, and best practices
What We're Looking For
We are looking for candidates with 2+ years of experience in the banking industry, within market risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, and/or liquidity risk functions. Candidates should be comfortable working with business stakeholders to define requirements, document processes, and support issue remediation that improves data quality and controls.
Key Skills (More Important Than Experience):
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain financial risk concepts and data requirements clearly
• Curiosity and willingness to ask questions to validate assumptions, reconcile variances, and surface risk data issues early
• Experience across key financial risk areas (e.g., value at risk and limit monitoring, risk reporting, or stress testing/scenario analysis, repricing dates, index, margin/spread, balances, cashflow schedules, etc.)
• Ability to organize and document complex information (policies, procedures, data definitions, and controls) with strong attention to detail
• Comfort presenting concise updates (issues, impacts, decisions needed) to small groups and senior stakeholders
• Ability to work with different teams and perspectives
Helpful (But Not Required):
• Exposure to data governance
• Data analysis experience including intermediate skills with MS Excel
What This Role Is Not
• Not a developer or engineering role
• Not a reporting or dashboard building- role
• No coding, advanced SQL or technical skills required
EDUCATION
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or related field or equivalent work experience
The typical base pay range for this role is between $78K - $106K 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.
