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Assistant Vice President, Audit Manager – Risk and Legal Audit
senior · Risk & Compliance
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.
As Assistant Vice President, Risk and Legal Audit at MUFG in London, you will be entrusted with executing critical elements of audit engagements within the EMEA Internal Audit function. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve planning audits aligned with agile principles, validating issues promptly with stakeholders, producing concise executive reports for senior committees, and embedding data analytics into testing processes. You will collaborate closely with Senior Audit Managers/Audit Directors to ensure the audit portfolio remains relevant amidst changing risks. Building constructive stakeholder relationships is central to your role, your ability to share industry best practices and provide effective challenge will help raise standards across the organisation. You'll also actively participate in strategic transformation initiatives within Internal Audit while coaching junior staff members. Success in this position requires you to embrace flexible working arrangements (including hybrid attendance), foster inclusion & diversity efforts through employee networks, deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines, and contribute positively to MUFG's vision for trusted financial partnership.
Execute assigned audits within the audit plan efficiently, ensuring timely delivery against EIA Key Performance Indicators while maintaining high standards of documentation.
Support Senior Audit Managers and Audit Directors in dynamically managing the audit portfolio throughout the year by proposing relevant changes based on evolving risks.
Lead audit assignments independently by adhering to established methodologies and standards, embedding agile principles to ensure comprehensive coverage of key risks.
Monitor self-delivery as well as tasks delegated to Analysts, meeting interim milestones and deadlines while promptly escalating any challenges or blockers impacting timelines.
Produce impactful audit reports for executive audiences with clear messaging, factual conclusions, and minimal edits required by senior stakeholders.
Validate issues to required quality standards using desktop validation where appropriate; maintain regular touchpoints with stakeholders to drive effective issue management.
Enable the Data Analytics agenda by generating outcome test ideas for assignments that meet team-specific KPIs; support embedding data analytics into audit testing processes.
Develop constructive relationships with stakeholders by providing commercial perspectives, effective challenge, guidance as an independent respected voice, and sharing best practices from industry networks.
Actively participate in implementing the long-term vision and strategy of Internal Audit by fostering a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, openness to new ideas, and engagement in inclusion & diversity initiatives.
Coach other AVPs and Analysts on audit tasks; provide balanced feedback; recognise individual and team success; contribute to enterprise-wide leadership initiatives outside EIA.
What you bring:
Experience working in an audit or risk management function within Financial Services, banking, investment banking or Big 4 firm with proven appreciation of risk/control environments.
Demonstrated knowledge of auditing methods and industry practices relevant to banking/financial services; understanding of financial products including their risks/revenue generation mechanisms.
Proven experience in Agile Auditing techniques combined with practical Data Analytics exposure applied within audit assignments.
Higher education or equivalent industry experience; professional qualifications such as ACA, CFA or CIA are desirable but not essential.
Excellent communication skills enabling you to build collaborative relationships across global teams; strong interpersonal abilities underpinning stakeholder engagement.
Results-driven approach coupled with accountability for timely delivery; structured work style ensuring accuracy even under pressurised conditions.
Ability to manage large workloads effectively while prioritising tasks according to urgency; calmness when navigating uncertainty or tight deadlines.
Creative mindset open to new ideas/approaches; willingness to learn from mistakes both internally/externally; curiosity about emerging industry topics.
Strong numerical skills paired with proficiency in Microsoft Office applications supporting robust analysis/documentation requirements.
Commitment to inclusion & diversity demonstrated through active participation in employee networks or related initiatives.
We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.
We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.