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About Us

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with over 2,700 locations in more than 50 markets. The Group has over 180,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

The Group aims to “be the world’s most trusted financial group” through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges.

MUFG Bank, Ltd. is Japan’s premier bank, with a global network spanning more than 50 markets. Outside of Japan, the bank offers an extensive scope of commercial and investment banking products and services to businesses, governments and individuals worldwide.

In Asia, MUFG has a presence across 20 markets – Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

It has also formed strategic partnerships with some of the most prominent banks in Southeast Asia, further augmenting its unrivalled network across the region – VietinBank in Vietnam, Krungsri in Thailand, Security Bank in the Philippines and Bank Danamon in Indonesia.

MUFG Global Service (MGS)

Established in 2019, MUFG Global Services (MGS) is 100% subsidiary of MUFG Bank Ltd having offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai. MGS has been set up as a Global Capability Centre / Centre of Excellence to provide support services across various functions such as IT, KYC / AML, Credit, Operations, Trade Finance etc. to MUFG Bank offices globally. With a current headcount of over 1000 employees, MGS India has plans to significantly ramp-up its growth over the next 18-24 months while servicing MUFG’s global network across Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

About the Role

Position Title : AVP, Global Financial Crimes Compliance Testing

Corporate Title : AVP

Location : Bangalore

Purpose of Role :

Responsible for supporting the Global Compliance Testing function in performing deep dives and targeted risk-based reviews of Financial Crimes Compliance (AML, Sanctions, ABC) processes across APAC with an emphasis on the design and effectiveness of measures (controls) taken to monitor and mitigate applicable risk.

Main Responsibilities :

• Engage directly with testing management and team leads with a goal to assist and when required lead end-to-end compliance testing reviews, applying the Bank’s testing methodology for MUFG Bank locations globally.
• Apply the bank’s testing methodology and create testing workpapers to evaluate the effectiveness of existing financial crimes frameworks including the design and implementation of relevant controls across the AML, Sanctions and ABC framework.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to understand business and functional requirements and support team leads in developing test plans, scripts, procedures, and sampling methodologies that incorporate regulatory expectations, industry developments, lessons learned from regulatory findings and internally identified issues by compliance testing and internal audit.
• Engage review stakeholders during testing and monitoring reviews and provide credible challenges to ensure financial crimes controls are adequately evaluated.
• Play a leading role in financial crimes related projects and engage with global and regional compliance management in the implementation of a coordinated, consistent, and risk-based testing program.
• Assist in developing and maintaining quality control processes to drive adherence to Global Testing Standards.
• Drive central coordination, governance, and reporting, leveraging regional structures and best practices.
• Apply in-depth subject matter and industry expertise in preparing / reviewing reports summarizing the objectives, scope, findings, and conclusions of completed testing.
• Support management in the validation of Management Action Plans designed to address remediation efforts and testing review findings.
• Play a leading role and provide guidance to Analysts in coordinating with Issues Management for monitoring and tracking resolution of testing findings, including validating actions taken to resolve previously identified issues.
• Monitor developments, such as changes in the regulatory environment, financial crime / core compliance risks and industry developments which may necessitate ad hoc testing.
• Play a key role in the development and enhancements to testing methodology, standards and procedures, Annual Test Plan, and testing tools.
• Support general compliance activities and other duties, including special projects as assigned

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