Vice President, Cyber Security Project & Transition Manager

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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 vision 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 create 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.

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IT Security department covers cyber security strategy maintenance and tactical planning and operations to provide IT Security protection, governance, risk management and reporting. This includes promoting Head Office Information Security Standards and Procedures (ISSP) requirements and local security requirements. The department supports and monitors security solutions such as virus protection, vulnerability management, compliance monitoring and threat/incident management activities to reduce risk.

 

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS

2

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

 

The Cyber Security Transition Manager is responsible for providing business-aligned cyber security leadership, managing information risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and leading security remediation and transformation programmes. The role acts as the bridge between business, technology, risk, and security functions to reduce cyber risk while enabling business objectives through effective governance, stakeholder engagement, and project delivery.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the trusted security advisor for business and technology stakeholders.
• Translate cyber security requirements into practical business controls and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensure security requirements are embedded within projects, programmes, and service lifecycles.
• Facilitate security reviews covering:

            Cloud Services

            Vendor Onboarding

            Business Initiatives

            Application Development

• Promote security awareness and risk ownership across business functions.
• Support executive stakeholders in understanding security posture and risk exposure.
• Act as the first line of defence risk representative for assigned business units and technology domains.
• Maintain oversight of information security, technology, cyber, and operational risks affecting business services.
• Perform risk assessments and control evaluations for applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and third-party providers.
• Review and challenge risk acceptances, compensating …