Financial Crimes Specialist MBE Compliance 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 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.

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 Financial Crimes Specialist for our Compliance Division in Duesseldorf .

About MUFG

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,000 locations in more than 40 countries. The Group has about 120,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to "be the world's most trusted financial group" through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english.

About MUFG in the European Economic Area

Following the decision taken by the UK in 2016 to leave the European Union, MUFG has taken all of the necessary steps to ensure the continuation of all services to clients, regardless of their location. Clients located in the European Economic Area (EEA) access services through MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. as well as MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.

About MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V.

MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. (MBE) is a fully-owned subsidiary of MUFG Bank, headquartered in Amsterdam. With offices throughout Europe, our teams provide clients with comprehensive financing solutions spanning Coverage & Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Transaction Banking, using MUFG's global reach to provide bespoke solutions. With 73 green, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bond tranches in 2021 and 51 sustainability-linked loans in EMEA in 2021, MUFG is committed to supporting clients to achieve sustainable business growth.

Please visit our website for more information - https://www.mufgemea.com/mbe

The role includes the following:

AML Compliance - alert closure

• Processing and quality control of automated AML alerts and determining (decision making) to close or escalate
• Advising and interacting with the First Line of Defense
• Reviewing of escalated cases, documenting narratives and determining (decision making) to close or
• Preparing for the initial Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) drafts. Advising and interacting with the Front Offices

Sanctions Compliance - alert handling in sanction screening

• Processing, investigation, documentation and communication of sanction screening alerts in the areas of

• Live transaction screening,
• Trade Finance Documentation screening and
• Daily name screening

under the existing sanction regimes by using the respective investigation tools

• Decision making of confirming for false, potential or true matches and escalating if necessary. Advising and interacting with the First Line of Defense. Interacting with the financial crimes teams in EMEA.

High-Risk KYCs, escalations and exceptions

• Review of high-risk KYC cases
• Review of escalated customer due diligence files for Compliance review.
• Review and approval of exceptions in a customer due diligence file by Compliance.

Reporting

• Maintaining of internal reports and providing of statistics over investigated cases.
• Advisory and training
• Preparation of external reports

Advisory

• Contact for suspicious monitoring and sanction screening related inquiries to the first line.
• Provision of knowledge transfer to the first line in the context and scope of responsibility.
• Contact for KYC queries on a Compliance level. Provision of knowledge transfer to the first line in the context and scope of responsibility.

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

Skills and experience:

• University Degree or higher education qualification
• Minimum of five years of working experience in a financial institution
• Preferred experience in Compliance area - in particular financial crimes
• Precise working attitude
• High level of self-motivation
• Fluent in German and English (verbal and in writing)

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.

Besides that we will offer you:

• Gross salary based on experience and consistent with the market including bonus payment
• Employer contribution to a pension programme (BVV)
• Contribution to capital forming benefits ("Vermögenswirksame Leistungen")
• Sponsorship of a job ticket to fifty percent
• Lunch allowance
• Flextime to support your personal work-life-balance ("Gleitzeit")
• Further training and educational programs, e.g. language courses
• Corporate benefits
• To work in an ambitious, international environment with colleagues from different countries and cultures, who strive for the best

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

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law. Job ID 10067310-WD