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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.Functional Skills
• Working knowledge of relevant regional and international sanctions policies and procedures, regulatory guidelines and agencies
• Commonly used tools for sanctions screening and reporting (Trade360, etc.)
• International banking or financial services industry is required
• Bachelor's Degree required, Advanced Degree (JD/MBA) preferred.
Required Skills
• Communicates effectively & demonstrates senior-level leadership
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
• Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
• Collaborates with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
• Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
• Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
• Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity
Responsibilities:
• Monitoring and investigating transactions and customers to identify potential exposure to sanctioned parties
• Oversee Level 2 Sanctions Alert Review operation, inclusive of management, training, and alert review documentation, with knowledge of both US and EMEA regulations.
• Reviewing sanction alerts identified during Know Your Customer (KYC) onboarding and periodical review
• Conducting risk assessments on proposed transactions
• Reviewing financial and trade alerts identified by screening systems
• Collaborating with global sanctions colleagues to review transactions
• Managing transaction screening first line staff
• Managing workflows and volumes to ensure all service level agreements are met
• Ensuring pertinent data updates (i.e., watchlists, customer accounts, liabilities) via timely uploads to the bank’s sanctions screening tools, and creating reconciliation reporting as necessary
• Ensuring compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and Antiboycott, and other relevant global regulatory policies and agencies
• Resolving suspicious cases and alerting other departments as relevant
• Developing process improvements to impact decision and investigations, list management, geographic or risk-entity patterns triggering false-positives, etc.
• Providing reporting and system data integrity maintenance
• Proven success in sanctions compliance or a related discipline
• Experience working with and applying sanctions and/or anti-money laundering laws and regulations
The typical base pay range for this role is between $109,000 to $150,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role
may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus 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.