Vice President, Project Manager-Transaction Banking

Job description

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. 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. Position Summary: Join the Transaction Banking PMO team to lead large, complex project initiatives that support Transaction Banking’s core strategy. This role is responsible for researching, initiating, coordinating, and managing assigned business projects from planning through rollout. Solutions may not always be fully defined at the outset, requiring strong judgment, structured delivery practices, and coordination across multiple technical teams and external vendors. Assigned projects are typically highly complex, multidisciplinary, and support the Bank’s revenue and strategic objectives. Major responsibilities: Manage multiple large, cross-functional projects by developing, maintaining, and administering project plans that define scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines. Serve as the lead business coordinator for project teams, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and accountability for successful project delivery. Recommend methods, procedures, and technologies that improve project processes and support more effective delivery. Manage project rollout activities, ensuring processes, procedures, training, client communications, and user guides are completed before transition to business as usual. Oversee project implementation by developing or coordinating project plans, facilitating meetings, gaining consensus, and preparing communications and status updates for senior management. Plan and conduct analysis of complex business problems, identifying root causes, impacts, and potential solutions. Monitor and report project, portfolio, and business trends that may affect delivery progress, risk, or prioritization. Explain complex business problems, solution options, and delivery impacts clearly to senior management. Ensure projects remain on target by identifying issues, driving resolution, escalating risks as appropriate, and keeping management informed of project status. Coordinate project flow with impacted departments across the Bank and communicate business problems, solution options, and delivery impacts clearly to senior management. Identify business needs quickly and translate them into clear business requirements, applying comprehensive knowledge of the Bank’s business processes, systems, and organizational workflows. Assist in reviewing long-range business plan proposals based on current and anticipated business needs, strategic priorities, and delivery capacity. Participate in portfolio reviews, project governance routines, and reporting activities that provide visibility into status, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress. Manage multiple stakeholder relationships by aligning expectations, resolving competing priorities, and maintaining clear communication across project teams. Prepare comprehensive business cases for proposed project investments, including ongoing costs, revenue forecasts, and client pipelines. Qualifications: Typically requires 7+ years of demonstrated experience leading and managing large, complex projects that cross business lines and organizational functions. Experience managing projects within both agile and waterfall environments. PMP and CSM certifications preferred. Process improvement and Six Sigma experience preferred. Knowledge of Treasury Management products preferred. Knowledge of project management reporting and portfolio management tools, including Planview and Clarity. Knowledge of AI tools and their practical application within a project management environment. Advanced proficiency in Visio and Excel. Power BI and Copilot skills preferred. Requires comprehensive knowledge of customer strategies, practices, and priorities to support effective decision-making. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex issues with precision, prepare executive-level materials, and conduct effective reviews. Ability to organize and facilitate effective meetings appropriate to the topic, audience, and decision required. Ability to recognize and communicate an effective course of action on difficult projects and provide guidance to project team members on communication matters. Ability to work independently and collaboratively within teams. Ability to build and maintain effective interpersonal networks across the organization. Ability to provide guidance to project team members on project management practices, expectations, and delivery standards. Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and demonstrate excellent personal time-management skills. Ability to develop and maintain complex project plans and manage work in accordance with defined methodologies. Effective management skills in a matrix environment where project participants report to managers outside the project structure. The typical base pay range for this role is between $128k-$160k 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. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below. MUFG Benefits Summary We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.