VP - Trade Finance Product & GPS SME Lead

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. The Vice President, Trade Finance Product & GPS SME Lead will provide end-to-end business and product leadership for CGI Trade360 (T360), KOMGO, annual T360 maintenance releases, periodic platform upgrades, and global implementations. The position will serve as the senior GPS Trade Finance SME, lead onsite stakeholder engagement, and direct MGS offshore resources supporting requirements, testing, data, documentation, controls, and release delivery. Core Responsibilities · Serve as the primary GPS business and product SME for CGI T360, KOMGO, Trade Finance operations, workflows, controls, data, and downstream integrations. · Own annual T360 maintenance releases, periodic upgrades, product enhancements, regulatory changes, and global implementations across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas. · Lead end-to-end scope, requirements, process flows, business rules, BRD/DRD, data mapping, UAT strategy, defect governance, operational readiness, cutover, and post-production stabilization. · Partner with Trade Finance Operations, Front Office, Technology, CGI, KOMGO, QA/SIT/UAT, regional teams, and senior stakeholders to deliver approved business outcomes. · Lead and develop MGS offshore resources; assign WBS deliverables, establish SME ownership, review output quality, manage dependencies, and ensure sustainable BAU support. · Maintain product roadmap, release calendar, RAID, decisions, stakeholder approvals, evidence, version control, and executive-level delivery status. · Drive process optimization, automation, AIQ/AI opportunities, operational controls, and measurable improvements in quality, efficiency, and supportability. Trade Finance Product Expertise · CGI Trade360 product capabilities, configuration, release lifecycle, interfaces, and global deployment model. · KOMGO workflows and digital Trade Finance integration. · Letters of Credit, Standby Letters of Credit, Guarantees, Documentary Collections, Open Account, Supply Chain Finance, Trade Loans, Trade Payments, and related SWIFT Category 4 and 7 messages. · Trade Address, trade-party data, COMPCHEK, operational exceptions, maker-checker controls, reconciliations, and regulatory requirements. Cross-Product & Downstream Accountabilities · Coordinate Trade Finance impacts and interfaces across Deposits, Markets, Payments, and other downstream business products. · Partner with Compliance teams supporting data quality, data lineage, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, AML controls, reporting, and evidence requirements. · Ensure source-to-target mapping, transformation logic, data ownership, control totals, exception handling, and downstream consumption are clearly documented and validated. · Assess cross-project impacts from SWIFT, ISO 20022, vendor releases, regulatory changes, and enterprise data initiatives. GPS SME Leadership & Delivery Model · Act as the onsite GPS Trade Finance lead and escalation point for business, operations, technology, vendor, and regional stakeholders. · Build and maintain a structured Trade Finance SME model covering product knowledge, procedures, artifacts, testing, controls, and BAU support. · Direct MGS offshore analysts supporting WBS/Jira, BRD/DRD, data mapping, UAT, defects, documentation, dashboards, and release evidence. · Ensure every deliverable has a clear owner, due date, acceptance criteria, evidence, and stakeholder approval. · Lead knowledge transfer, shadow/reverse-shadow activities, runbook development, and offshore ownership acceptance. Required Qualifications · Extensive Trade Finance product, operations, and transformation experience in a large financial institution. · Demonstrated hands-on expertise with CGI Trade360 and strong knowledge of KOMGO. · Experience leading annual maintenance releases, platform upgrades, global implementations, UAT, cutover, and production stabilization. · Strong business analysis capability across BRD, DRD, process modeling, data mapping, traceability, UAT planning, defects, and controls. · Experience leading distributed onsite/offshore teams and managing vendor and executive stakeholder relationships. · Ability to translate complex product, regulatory, operational, and technology requirements into concise, controlled, and auditable deliverables. Preferred Qualifications · Experience with global Trade Finance rollouts across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas. · Knowledge of SWIFT Trade Finance messaging, ISO 20022 impacts, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and compliance data controls. · Experience with AI/automation, workflow optimization, Jira/WBS dashboards, and structured knowledge management. Key Success Outcomes · Predictable, high-quality delivery of annual T360 releases, upgrades, and global implementations. · Clear ownership and complete BRD/DRD/data/UAT/control traceability across Trade Finance and downstream teams. · Sustainable MGS offshore SME capability with strong documentation, runbooks, and BAU support. · Reduced delivery risk, improved operational readiness, and timely resolution of defects, dependencies, and stakeholder decisions. The typical base pay range for this role is between $176K - $215K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonuses 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.