GFCD - Sanctions Program - Analyst (33303)

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA) ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION We are MUFG. 360 years of heritage. A world-class set of businesses. And more than 180,000 employees in 50 markets. It's no surprise that MUFG has grown to become one of the top five banks in the world. Our services include commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. MUFG offers stability in an ever-changing market, providing services to high-profile clients worldwide. Our vision? To become the world's most trusted financial group. You'll help us achieve it. MUFG's financial crime compliance framework includes control processes designed to help the Bank detect, deter, and prevent financial crime as well as assess and mitigate related risks (i.e., money laundering and terrorist financing risk, sanctions risk, and bribery and corruption risk) in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws, rules, regulations, supervisory guidance, and commensurate with the Bank's risk profile and risk appetite. The core purpose of this role is to ensure that our organisation conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our customers within the regulatory and legal framework. NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS 0 MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE * The Sanctions Program Team are responsible for the effective running of the Sanctions Program across all jurisdictions within EMEA. * This includes driving the implementation of MUFG Bank's financial crimes risk appetite, policies and standards through working with Transformation and Technology partners, Country Compliance teams, Operations and Business stakeholders. * The role holder will oversee incident management and support the provision and resolution of audit and testing, tracking issue owner's progress and delivery. As an Analyst in the Financial Crimes Office for EMEA, you work in a team that contributes to the operation of the financial crime compliance framework. Thus, your responsibilities and accountabilities include, but are not limited to, implementing the sanctions program in a "business as usual" environment to mitigate the financial crime risks. In summary, this role requires: * Supporting the drive for compliance with MUFG's global policies; * Working on the resolution of issues identified via MUFG's testing functions, audits, regulatory exams, programmatic reviews, and quality assurance efforts in collaboration with other teams in FCOE related to Sanctions matters. * Ensuring key processes are run efficiently to deliver quality and reliable information, to support the firm's business growth and control procedures. Developing and integrating these processes with the equivalents in MUFG to deliver a first-class EMEA team. * Providing support and logistic arrangements to enable FCOE to deliver its change programme efficiently and effectively across the EMEA region with specific responsibility for the management of Sanctions-related projects. In all your activities ensure that the legal entity integrity of MUFG Bank Ltd is respected, escalating to your supervisor if you identify any actual or perceived conflicts of interest between them. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES MUFG In addition to the duties described above, you will contribute to the work of the FCOE 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. Program Oversight and Remediation - Sanctions: Key Responsibilities * Contribute to the implementation of and compliance with group policies and procedures governing MUFG's financial crime control framework related to Sanctions; * Resolution of issues identified via the testing functions, audits, regulatory examinations, the Global Rollout gap analysis exercise, and quality assurance; * Ensure that EMEA is implementing and operating an end-to-end process for sanctions with appropriate controls in place to ensure the effectiveness of these processes. Where the Financial Crime Operations Centre of Excellence (CoE) is delivering these processes, the program team will provide oversight of how the CoE is delivering this service to London and the rest of the countries in the EMEA region; * Ensure delivery of EMEA region's compliance with the Global Wire Standards; * Prepare and deliver responses to regulatory enquiries, coordinating and providing subject matter expertise with regard to regulatory examinations and visits in the EMEA region; and *