Discover Your Opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)

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.

Role Overview

As Assistant Vice President, Risk and Legal Audit at MUFG in London, you will be entrusted with executing critical elements of audit engagements within the EMEA Internal Audit function. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve:

• Planning audits aligned with agile principles
• Validating issues promptly with stakeholders
• Producing concise executive reports for senior committees
• Embedding data analytics into testing processes
• Collaborating closely with Senior Audit Managers/Audit Directors to ensure the audit portfolio remains relevant amidst changing risks
• Building constructive stakeholder relationships
• Sharing industry best practices and providing effective challenge
• Actively participating in strategic transformation initiatives within Internal Audit
• Coaching junior staff members

Success in this position requires you to:

• Embrace flexible working arrangements (including hybrid attendance)
• Foster inclusion & diversity efforts through employee networks
• Deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines
• Contribute positively to MUFG's vision for trusted financial partnership

Key Responsibilities

• Execute assigned audits within the audit plan efficiently, ensuring timely delivery against EIA Key Performance Indicators while maintaining high standards of documentation.
• Support Senior Audit Managers and Audit Directors in dynamically managing the audit portfolio throughout the year by proposing relevant changes based on evolving risks.
• Lead audit assignments independently by adhering to established methodologies and standards, embedding agile principles to ensure comprehensive coverage of key risks.
• Monitor self-delivery as well as tasks delegated to Analysts, meeting interim milestones and deadlines while promptly escalating any challenges or blockers impacting timelines.
• Produce impactful audit reports for executive audiences with clear messaging, factual conclusions, and minimal edits required by senior stakeholders.
• Validate issues to required quality standards using desktop validation where appropriate; maintain regular touchpoints with stakeholders to drive effective issue management.
• Enable the Data Analytics agenda by generating outcome test ideas for assignments that meet team-specific KPIs; support embedding data analytics into audit testing processes.
• Develop constructive relationships with stakeholders by providing commercial perspectives, effective challenge, guidance as an independent respected voice, and sharing best practices from industry networks.
• Actively participate in implementing the long-term vision and strategy of Internal Audit by fostering a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, openness to new ideas, and engagement in inclusion & diversity initiatives.
• Coach other AVPs and Analysts on audit tasks; provide balanced feedback; recognise individual and team success; contribute to enterprise-wide leadership initiatives outside EIA.