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Overview of Organization and Department/Section:MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia.. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do. We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.The Information and Data Management (IDM) department is responsible for master data management and MI production across all international subsidiaries of MUSHD and EMEA region for MUFG Bank. The mandate for the department is to:Develop a business led, technology enabled data strategy and roadmap for delivery of data management target state.Develop a data governance framework and establish data related policies and procedures to improve the value of data as an enterprise asset.Source, validate and maintain master data repositories of market and reference data.Agree data quality standards with business owners and track metrics and continuously improve data processes.Investigate and analyze data issues, identify the root cause and recommend control improvements.Develop and support an MI platform optimized for the aggregation of data and the reporting of processed and analyzed information.Deliver accurate, timely and insightful MI to the international business to support executive decision making and to meet statutory and regulatory reporting requirements. The team operates internationally with staff currently based in London, New York and Hong Kong.The Master Data Management team in London has two main functions:Market Data: Includes EOD pricing, IPV prices, time series and curve maintenance.Reference Data: Includes counterparty, common reference, instrument and organizational data.Main Purpose of the Counterparty Data Role:The successful candidate will play a key role in the daily counterparty data process by ensuring counterparty data is processed in a timely and accurate fashion, while driving improvements and facilitating change. Our team is responsible for an extensive range of counterparty data acrossprocesses that span client onboarding, legal agreements, settlement instructions for all asset classes providing therefore an excellent opportunity for exposure to Front Office, Finance, Operations and Risk management functions. The implementation of a strategic Enterprise Data Management system where our team is playing a key support role provides the opportunity to the individual to contribute to the successful path towards an international data model which is essential for the firm’s success.Key Responsibilities:In this role, you will be responsible for counterparty data processes across MUFG’s banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement, you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the bank and the securities business, subject to the same remit and level of authority, and irrespective of the entity which employs you.To work as a team member in the Reference Data function within the Information Data Management department.Responsible that all counterparty data (e.g. new client onboarding, booking accounts, SSI, legal data, regulatory classifications, client offboarding) captured and set up is accurate and timely before its distribution to the various business areas, functions and systems.Responsible for ensuring that counterparty data-production processes data which adheres to the definition, standards, and quality rules agreed with stakeholders.Responsible to take ownership of assigned data issues and ensure that data issues are identified, prioritized, tracked and resolved while liaising with Stakeholders.Responsible for delivery of timely and relevant counterparty data metrics to track performance against key SLAs and other KPIs as specified by stakeholders and business process owners.Responsible to support enhancement of counterparty data production processes, through working with our stakeholders including Technology teams to improve data validation processes, enhance efficiency, reduce operational risk and optimize existing wherever possible, strategic systems and data sources.Responsible for contribution to business analysis in support of strategic system implementations and other firm-wide projects relating to counterparty data processesResponsible to maintain desk procedures up to date in an effort to improve team coverage and efficiency.Build positive and pro-active working relationships with the key stakeholders across the business.Skills and Experience:A minimum of 2:1 (or equivalent) in a Bachelor’s degree.Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel beneficial).Practical / working knowledge of counterparty data set up across client onboarding and offboarding, account set up, SSI.Desirable system experience; Murex, Markit EDM, Bloomberg, Gloss.Experience of working with stakeholders at various levels.Personal Requirements:Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.A proactive, motivated approach.The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work.Team player with a professional approach.A structured and logical approach to work.Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.Strong analytical/numerical skills.