Vice President – Business Analyst (Payments and Cash Management)

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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.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with the product and operations teams as owners to business or operational requirements to analyse and translate these requirements into technical solutions for FX, payment, collection, liquidity, channel and reporting products.
• Collaborate with the product and operations teams to define the to-be processes and target system functional landscape that promote digitization and standardization of product and service offerings to our customers.
• Provide the business and operations with global / regional solutions based on the understanding of the payments / cash management domain and the evolution of application landscape.
• Drive requirements analysis and solutions design with 3rd party vendors or in-house system teams, ensuring user requirements are designed properly, system functionalities are aligned with industry norms and standards, and impacts to existing systems are assessed comprehensively.
• Document and review the conceptual design and detailed design of the solution (including GUI, message mapping, payment workflows, payment control, exception handling, etc).
• Liaise with the enterprise architect, solution architect and application team, including relevant global business process owners in the Tokyo Head Office for the solution design.
• Provide inputs to the Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) on the design of functional and interface test, as stand-alone system or end-to-end system flows.
• Participate and drive production incident management, to assess customer impacts and support recovery.
• Participate and drive production problem management, to recommend permanent fixes either in payment systems or upstream systems.
• Maintain up to date system documentation based on projects releases, maintenance and bugfix activities.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders across product and operations teams in the Tokyo Head Office.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 7 Years of experience as a business analyst specializing in implementation of payments and/or cash management solutions in APAC for the transaction banking business.
• Minimum JLPT N1 Certification (or equivalent business-level Japanese proficiency) to communicate effectively with stakeholders of various divisions in Tokyo Head Office, as the role requires interaction with Japanese speaking stakeholders.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in regional / global system
• Hands-on working knowledge of domestic and cross-border payments schemes, as well as clearing and settlement mechanisms in APAC region.
• Experience in implementation for payments and/or cash management solutions and been part of full project lifecycle, from inception to post-production support.
• Experience in working with the product and operations stakeholders, application teams, architects to come up with an integrated solution design.
• Experience in online and batch-based system architecture. High level of technical competency should be demonstrated for SQL.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Strong planning, organizational and time management skills
• Self-motivated and possess drive, with ability to work independently and a good team player

We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.