Global Financial Crimes – Sanctions Compliance Analyst

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s 10 largest financial institutions according to S&P Global. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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.

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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.

Sanctions Analyst will sit within the Global Sanctions Compliance Department, reporting to the Global Sanctions Advisory Regulatory Advisory team lead. This role will interface with MUFG’s senior sanctions compliance managers in the United States and regional financial crimes offices (RFCOs) across the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Interpret sanctions regulations and apply them to complex real-life transactions
• Support Global Sanctions Advisory in meeting its ad-hoc and annual OFAC reporting obligations
• Support Global Sanctions Advisory meet regulator, internal audit, and testing obligations
• Manage sanctions metrics reporting including outreach to stakeholders and drafting of monthly senior management metrics reports
• Support the preparation and delivery of sanctions training
• Monitor sanctions regulatory updates
• Draft job-specific sanctions compliance procedures
• Communicate with RFCO colleagues globally
  
  

Qualifications:

• Degree (Bachelor’s or higher) in international affairs or equivalent, business, trade, finance, literature, law, geography, or security studies preferred
• Strong interest in financial crimes compliance, including economic sanctions
• Ability to interpret regulations and apply them to concrete, real world, scenarios
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently and deliver results
• Strong communication (written/verbal) and critical thinking skills
• Organized and self-motivated individual
• Desire and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and to interact respectfully and effectively with peers across the globe
  
  

Preferred:

• Understanding of the impact of technology, processes, and procedures on control environment effectiveness in a regulated financial sector context
• 1-3 years in financial crimes, banking compliance or financial services, preferred but not required. Other investigative/research-oriented disciplines would be considered
• Strong presentation preparation skills
• Multilingual skills a plus
  
  

The typical base pay range for this role is between $68k-$78k 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.