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• The Sanctions Programs Team is responsible for the effective running of the Sanctions Program across

all jurisdictions within EMEA. The team ensure the robust management of the broader Sanctions

Control Framework, in support of this they provide oversight, SME knowledge and support to other

Sanctions Teams

• This includes:

• Supporting and assisting with appetite, policies and standards through working with Country Compliance teams, Operations and Business stakeholders.

• Providing support and logistical management to enable Sanctions Programs to deliver its book of work efficiently and effectively across the EMEA region with specific responsibility for the management Policy adherence, Risk Assessments, MI provision and Issues Management.

• Support the team processes and ensure our organisation conducts its business such that we protect our reputation, our business, and our customers within the regulatory and legal framework.

• As part of a leading global financial group, MUFG is required to act with integrity and meet our corporate responsibilities in the fifty-plus countries and regions where we operate. Ensuring we have a comprehensive financial crime compliance program is one of our most important responsibilities. MUFG has established the Global Financial Crimes Division in New York, USA to lead the program and each region under this program has a Financial Crimes Office.

• Financial Crimes Office EMEA (FCOE) is the regional office responsible for the establishment and maintenance of effective systems and controls to protects customers’ assets ad to mitigate the risk that MUFG might be used to further financial crime in EMEA.

• MUFG’s financial crime compliance framework includes control processes designed to help the Bank detect, deter, and prevent financial crime as well as assess and mitigate related risks (i.e., money laundering and terrorist financing risk, sanctions risk, and bribery and corruption risk) in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws, rules, regulations, supervisory guidance, and commensurate with the Bank’s risk profile and risk appetite.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The role holder will:

• Undertake List Management activities in accordance with Global Standards.

• Ensuring list updates are completed in timely manner and any issues are resolved with agreed processes and escalated in line with Global Policies and Procedures.

• Undertake Good guy reviews and updates on behalf of the region, across all applicable screening systems

• Maintain and review the watchlist matrix/landscape for EMEA, across all applicable screening systems

• Supporting the Sanctions Issues Management process with a focus on reducing the number of open and overdue actions and issues, providing admin support to issue owners and Sanctions Programs Issues Management, act as Secretariat in biweekly EMEA Sanctions Issues Management Working Group.

• Support during branch reviews performed by Audit or other review functions. This will include acting as a gatekeeper for RFI requests during the review, ensuring they are indexed and distributed in a timely fashion. Working with key stakeholders to draft decks for key meetings during the review.

• Support Governance activities which includes arranging meetings, creating meeting materials such as slides and minutes; alongside general stakeholder engagement

• Provide administrative support as may be required to support Sanctions Programs activities

• Support in EMEA transformation activities, ensuring adherence to agreed timelines and escalation of emerging issues as may be required

• Essential:

• Experience in a Financial Crime function

• Experience with, and good knowledge of banking and Sanctions controls for financial crime

• Preferred:

• Experience in a central Sanctions function

• Previous experience with issues management, audit or similar review functions

• Previous experience in list management

• SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Functional / Technical Competencies: Essential:

• MS Office skills

• Proficient user of excel

• Demonstrates strong attention to details

• An understanding of Sanctions role

• Manages priorities effectively and delivers efficiently

• Proactively identifies and communicates improvements to process

• Education / Qualifications: Preferred:

• Degree

• Relevant Qualification

• A good understanding of the concepts of risk management and control.

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.

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