Senior Issues Management Validation Specialist

Job Description

Issues Management – Validation, VP | Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

The Tone:
This is a full-time, hybrid role within Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, a leading global financial institution. MUFG operates worldwide, serving clients, organizations, and communities through its 150,000 colleagues. The company is committed to building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering sustainable growth. This role is crucial for upholding the bank’s commitment to risk management by ensuring that identified issues are adequately addressed and remediated across all lines of defense.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid – within MUFG offices or client sites in New York/New Jersey or other regions, with one remote day per week.
• Pay: $120000–$192000 yearly
• Team: Issues Management Validation (IM Validation) team
• Mission: Verify the adequacy of identified issues and ensure appropriate and adequate remediation across all lines of defense.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Excel; knowledge of NIST, Cybersecurity Horizontal Reviews, ITIL, COBIT frameworks.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Issue Verification: Review issues identified by management, Second Line of Defense, and Third Line of Defense to verify their adequacy and ensure proper submission to the IM Validation team.
• Action Plan Development: Work with Business Unit Risk Managers (BURMs) to identify potential issues and participate in issue development, ensuring management action plans address control deficiencies sustainably.
• Remediation Validation: Validate issues to determine if they have been appropriately and adequately remediated by management, Second Line of Defense, and Internal Audit/Third Line of Defense.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with key stakeholders including management, BURMs, Second Line of Defense, and Third Line of Defense to ensure risks are understood and properly treated across all Lines of Defense.
• Review Process Oversight: Oversee the issue review process, provide updates to senior leadership, and escalate any potential challenges, ensuring compliance with issues management procedures.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Auditing Technology, Engineering, Risk Management, Computer Science, or Information Systems; this is a senior-level position.
• Experience: 6-8 years of experience in technology risks and controls, coupled with 6-8 years in information technology, information security, and/or operational risk management (including operations, compliance, audit, and third-party risk management within technology/information security), or a combination thereof. Requires a deep understanding of financial institution processes, products, and risk.
• Skills: Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, effective communication and writing, problem-solving, critical thinking, data gathering and interpretation, advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel for reporting and analysis, strong planning and organizing skills, and project management skills.
• Bonus: Fluent in Portuguese or Spanish, a degree from a competitive school, or certifications such as CISA, CISM, CIA, CRISC. Other desired certifications include CGEIT, CSX, CISSP, ITIL, COBIT, or general risk management, information security, and/or technology certifications. Experience with automating or conceptualizing automated control solutions is highly desired.