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MUFG

Vice President, Incident Respond Lead

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London, United kingdom

Senior

Full Time

10-12-2025

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Quality Assurance Architecture Organization

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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.

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia.. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.

Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.

Technology is responsible for the operation, development and support of all technology across all areas of the local and international business. We ensure the IT strategy, architecture solutions, and service delivery are firmly aligned to business requirements and long term strategy of the group.

Technology comprises the following functions:

Architecture and Development team - which is responsible for the provision of shared services including architecture, middleware, new systems development, quality assurance and release management.

Middle, Risk and Back Office Team - which is responsible for all the applications used by these areas including the main trading system, Murex.

Front Office Solutions - which provides a business-oriented focus to all technological developments that affect the trading floor.

Infrastructure team - which supports the operation of all production services, voice and data networks, other voice systems and desktop systems.

Programme Office and Purchasing - which is responsible for definition, prioritisation and delivery of the annual investment portfolio as well as procurement and software licence management.
IT Risk and Control - which is responsible for implementing and managing all technology related controls over IT and information risk and business continuity, supports the provision of disaster recovery solutions, performs risk assessments, and manages business recovery plans and the business recovery facility. Information Security is also the responsibility of this function.

Main Purpose of the Role :

To ensure effective management and control of information security, IT and information risk for MUSI by ensuring all appropriate Security, IT and common sense controls are in place, that these controls are being followed and that this is evidenced across the whole business and IT department.
The role will involve liaising with the other information security functions within the MUS international business and MUFG group to ensure a consistent approach to all controls, standards and policies is adopted across the organisation.
To ensure all necessary Information Security controls are in place and that an appropriate strategy to protect the firm from all Cyber, external and internal threats is defined and being implemented.
To develop, implement and manage compliance with appropriate IS and IT Security policies, standards and procedures.
To support the relationship and associated reporting requirements between Technology and internal and external bodies e.g. auditors, management committees, Tokyo head office, re

About the Company

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) 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 2,100 locations in more than 40 markets including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania. The Group has over 120,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. Through close partnerships among our group companies, ... Know more