Business Manager CFO MBE

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.

Would you like to work for one of the world's largest banks in an exciting, dynamic and international environment?

We are currently recruiting for a Business Manager CFO MBE for our Finance Division in Amsterdam.

MUFG Bank Europe N.V. (MBE) is a fully-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the largest ranked Financial Groups in the world in terms of assets. A world-class set of businesses and more than 180,000 employees in 50 markets. MUFG offers stability in an ever-changing market, providing services to high-profile clients worldwide.

For more than 50 years MBE has offered corporate and investment banking services to both Japanese and non-Japanese corporate customers in The Netherlands and, through its branches. The goal is to be among the top performing foreign-owned banks operating in The Netherlands, providing value-added banking services and excellent operations, fulfilling both Japanese and Global Multinational Corporate customers' needs.

At MBE we are committed to contributing to a more sustainable future. Thus, we will encourage you to embed environmental, social & governance (ESG) factors in your everyday work and in our culture.

The MBE subsidiary based in The Netherlands is a network of branches (Germany Branch (Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich), Spain Branch (Madrid), Belgium Branch (Brussels), Austria Branch (Vienna)), managed from Amsterdam.

Your impact at MUFG

As Business Manager CFO MBE you operate as a member of the CFO Business Management Team providing direct support to the CFO and, as necessary, other members of the CFO MT to ensure that the business has a ‘license to operate’. This support will take many forms including strategic and operational activities across a multitude of business disciplines. You will be responsible for key monitoring and reporting tasks on behalf of the CFO team within MBE and represent the CFO in meetings, as required/requested.

Specifically, you will be accountable and responsible for taking appropriate action with respect to the Company’s and MBE Finance, including:

• Supporting the CFO in executing and documenting his responsibilities.
• Supporting the MBE CFO in establishing and developing the strategy for the MBE Finance function.
• Supporting the CFO in developing a robust Finance organization (including new tools, applications, solutions) to ensure the Finance function is able to meet and respond to new business plans, changing regulatory requirements, new products and volume shifts.
• Working with the CFO, his management team and Corporate Communications to create and execute an MBE Finance-wide communications strategy.
• Supporting the CFO in driving staff engagement and connectivity initiatives.
• Supporting the CFO in performing oversight of how the business is run, including financial control, resource planning, governance and management information.
• Supporting and challenging the budgeting and personnel management for the department.
• Tracking and monitoring progress against (project) plans and budgets.
• Providing strategic input and advice to the senior members of the department.
• Supporting the CFO in managing his workload ensuring timely responses to initiatives and the delegation of tasks.
• Providing Management Information to senior members of the Finance and Data Management department, and to other parts of the group.
• Delivering high-quality and pro-active support to MUFG’s business activities, assisting the firm to do business in the right way and to deliver its business strategy.
• Supporting the CFO in ensuring key processes are run efficiently to deliver quality and reliable information, to support the firm’s business growth and control procedures.
• Supporting the CFO and the management team in coordinating answering regulatory questions and performing other regulatory exercises for the Finance team.
• Supporting the CFO and the management team in ensuring timely delivery of quality responses to actions from governance committees.
• Maintaining and enhancing good working relationships with stakeholders, across the region and globally to share best practices, provide support and develop effective local policies and procedures appropriate to the Company, and working in support of the One MUFG and overall Group strategy.

In order to be successful in the role, you will need the following:

• Several years of relevant experience in the banking or financial industry.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive, motivated, results-driven mindset, with a strong sense of accountability over your area of ownership and the ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly.
• Strong problem solving and decision making skills; a structured, logical, creative and innovative approach to work; and the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• Ability to manage large workloads to tight deadlines; maintaining excellent attention to detail and accuracy; delivered through a calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
• Excellent numerical skills, Microsoft Office skills and ability to visualize progress/status of the overall function.

Personal requirements:

• Integrity and Responsibility
• Balance Risk with Opportunity
• Customer Focus
• Demonstrate Global Perspective
• Professionalism and Teamwork
• Drive For Results
• Collaborate and Build Partnerships
• Communicate Effectively and Professionally
• Challenge Ourselves To Grow
• Influence and Inspire Others
• Lead Change & Seek Continuous Improvement
• Think Strategically
• Manage and Develop Talent

What do we have to offer:

We offer you a role in one of the largest banks of the world in a growing and international environment. You have various opportunities to develop yourself and we will support you with that by offering various training and development possibilities.

• We take into account your home situation and your ambitions and help you to balance work and private life.
• Monthly team events.
• To work in an ambitious, international environment with colleagues from different countries and cultures who strive for the best.
• Gross salary based on experience and consistent with the market
• 8% holiday allowance and 13th month payment.
• 30 vacation days per year. Optionally, you can buy 15 additional days.
• Commuting allowance based on annual public transport 2nd class, most economical way, or €0.23 per km with a max of 75 km one way.
• €5.00 net remote working compensation per day, with a maximum of €60.00 per month.
• Possibility to order a mobile phone (up to €800,-)
• Possibility to order Office Equipment for the home office (up to €500,-)
• Remote Working Policy i.e. Working From Home (WFH) and Remote Working in another Country.
• Bicycle plan (fiscal benefit)
• Company fitness (fiscal benefit)
• Mental health workshops and budget for external courses (i.e. Dutch language classes).
• Employee contribution towards Pension insurance (max 5%, currently 2%), our pension scheme is based on a defined contribution scheme.
• Training & development possibilities paid by the bank

Additional information:

The role is based in the Netherlands. All candidates need to be willing to relocate to the Netherlands. Internal employees will be supported in case of relocation.

For more information regarding this position you can contact our Talent Acquisition Specialist at: recruitment@nl.mufg.jp

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

About Us

At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!

Our Culture Principles

• Client Centric
• People Focused
• Listen Up. Speak Up.
• Innovate & Simplify
• Own & Execute