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MUFG has a global network spanning 50+ markets, with over 2,000 offices worldwide, and over 360 years of history. We offer services across commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing, providing stability and expertise in a dynamic financial landscape.

This temporary assignment will be working at MUFG, and may involve working at an MUFG site, you will however be contracted through Magnit Global, a UK registered employment business with the company registration number 05537535.

Purpose of the Role:

The multi-workstream System & Process Project Manager will be responsible for executing and delivering the plans across Middle Office, Human Resources, and Treasury. This includes coordinating activities across these functions, ensuring alignment with overall programme objectives, and driving the timely implementation of agreed deliverables. The Project Manager will oversee progress, manage dependencies and mitigate risks to ensure that each workstream achieves its targeted outcomes in line with scope, schedule, and quality expectations. This also includes ensuring compliance with the prescribed project delivery framework and meeting all reporting obligations as defined within that framework.

Key Responsibilities:

Full lifecycle project management ensuring that the project being delivered is compliant to minimum quality standards defined in the project delivery policy / process / procedures. This includes being complete (in terms of data capture as specified in the tool set and documentation standards); current (no stale data as in missed dates); and accurate (maintained with the latest update). Responsibility for the project will be from initiation through to handover to business and project closure.

• This will be through regular and proactive use of reporting provided by central PMO; and regular meetings with staff delivering the portfolio of work.
• Regular catch-up with peers / risk control owners in other departments who have vested interest in quality project delivery.
• Using golden source data to submit updates to oversight / executive committees instead of off- line data sources.
• Sign-off all deliverables assigned to the Project Manager roles in the project delivery lifecycle RACI and roles and responsibilities.
• Run and manage steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against timelines and responsible stakeholders Support the portfolio manager, who has overarching responsibility for the governance and delivery of all projects within the portfolio.
• Identify and understand issues, errors or concerns, swiftly and accurately and resolve problems taking into account agreed policy, procedures and service needs.
• Carry out analysis and form clear recommendations and proposal on projects / programmes based on sound business rationale. Clearly articulate strategic imperatives and benefits of projects – describe complex problems and solutions in a compelling manner, influencing senior management. Ensure consensus and collaboration with project delivery partners. Be a trusted partner to stakeholders, central PMO and other departments ensuring updates are transparent and accurate; actions, risks, issues, dependencies are effectively managed through to completion.
• Run and manage project steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability for delivery of actions against planned timelines is clearly defined / executed.
• Define and track the delivery of project outcomes and benefits in order to justify the business case and decisions to prioritise the project for delivery. 
• Engage, contract and manage third party vendors within the procurement policy and third-party vendor management policy.
• Define and recruit (from internal teams) project delivery staff of the correct calibre to deliver success. Ensure that responsibilities are appropriately assigned and controlled. Ensure that project and steering staff have a clear understanding of their duties to ensure that project delivery is adequately monitored and controlled.
• Show awareness of all sub portfolios within the investment portfolios in scope to assist in identifying synergies and avoiding duplication of effort.
• Ensure that project delivery steering committees / working groups remain in governance: that meetings are quorate, the Terms of Reference are reviewed at the end of each project delivery phase, that the portfolio committee has visibility / transparency of project delivery status, change and risk and that project risk and issues (RAID) items are escalated appropriately / on time. 

Work Experience:

• Minimum 5 years proven track record delivering change projects for financial institutions within time and budget.
• Delivering migration/implementation projects within banking environments - Skilled in delivering strategic initiatives, including process migration, system integration, and change management via effective stakeholder coordination; all within scope, timelines and budget.
• Strong knowledge of banking support functions and processes – preferably across Middle Office, Treasury, and /or Human Resources.
• Investment budget management – accurate forecasting of cost categories; management of “estimate at complete” vs budget; budget change control (at individual project or programme level). Demonstratable insight into controlling cost e.g. no actuals being committed before budget approval and planning / interventions that need to be made if approved budget (vs committed budget) is at risk of being exceeded.
• Investment project allocations agreement – working across stakeholders to agree how project costs (budget, increase to on-going expense budget) and benefits and gaining commitment that these costs are factored into their department business plans.
• Delivery resource review and attestation of on time project / programme delivery (“doability”) – working across resource supply teams to confirm the availability of required capacity to deliver the portfolio; overseeing project manager progress to securing resource or re-planning project delivery timelines avoiding “crisis escalation” except in genuine cases of inability to secure a rare skillset.
• Project / Programme Management Subject Matter Expertise – Experience in managing the delivery of change to banking support processes (Middle Office, Human Resources and Treasury), required for Day 1 merger readiness, including proactively resolving conflicts, addressing delays, and mitigating change risks. Capable of providing informed guidance to the business on key decisions related to change, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and operational continuity.
• Project / Programme governance design and delivery – delivering regular and relevant reports to portfolio committees / or more senior management / executive forums. Regular, proactive maintenance of the project governance committee terms of reference and minute taking / management. Regular review and challenge of all Risk, Assumption / Action, Issues, Dependencies/ Decision (RAID) logs within the portfolio; and creation of portfolio level RAID items ensuring they are not “stale”.
• Document Management – ensure all project / programme artefacts are consistently structured to standards and maintained for ease of reference by second / third line of defence and by Central PMO.
• Project / Programme closure – ensuring that every project / programme is “cleanly” closed and all “open” project items are risk accepted or closed within budget.

Preferred:

• Merger / integration delivery – Experience in supporting large-scale banking projects. Proven ability to plan and deliver cutover, migration, and business continuity projects / programmes including Day 1 readiness and post-merger integration.
• Multi-workstream leadership – Managing complex, interdependent workstreams and driving aligned delivery.

Education / Qualifications:

Essential: Degree level education

Preferred: Relevant qualifications / accreditations e.g. Prince2, PMI, Six Sigma or other.