Assistant Vice President, Vulnerability Management

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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.

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The IT Security function is responsible for cyber security strategy, governance, risk reduction, and operational security oversight across the organisation. This includes the implementation and oversight of security controls, vulnerability management, threat monitoring, compliance alignment, and incident/threat readiness to reduce cyber risk in line with business, regulatory, and enterprise expectations.

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

The Assistant Vice President of Vulnerability Management supports the Vice President of Vulnerability Management in driving the operational evolution of MUFG’s Vulnerability Management and Security Compliance capabilities across EMEA Banking and Securities technology environments. The role combines deep cybersecurity expertise, risk-based decision making, and AI-driven security operations to reduce organisational cyber risk, improve remediation outcomes, and enhance overall security posture.

This individual elevates traditional vulnerability management practices by addressing current industry challenges, including vulnerability volume growth, prioritisation complexity, remediation resource constraints, alert fatigue, and increasing exploit sophistication. Through the intelligent use of AI-driven analytics, threat intelligence, exposure assessment, and automation, the role will enable more effective identification, prioritisation, and remediation of vulnerabilities based on actual business risk and threat relevance.

The role is accountable for ensuring that vulnerability management, security governance, policy compliance, and risk management processes are effective, measurable, and aligned with MUFG security standards while supporting regulatory, audit, and operational risk requirements across EMEA.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Vulnerability Management & Risk Reduction

·         Reduce the vulnerability footprint across EMEA technologies by partnering with technology owners and product teams to drive remediation and mitigation activities.

·         Develop strategic approaches to address vulnerability management challenges, including escalating vulnerability volumes, patching constraints, legacy technology risks, and limited remediation resources.

·         Identify opportunities to automate vulnerability triage, risk assessment, reporting, and remediation workflows.

·         Lead major risk reduction initiatives focused on critical vulnerabilities, attack path analysis, and exposure management.

Vulnerability Governance & Compliance

·         Drive compliance with CIS Benchmarks, asset hardening standards, and other security frameworks.

·         Ensure vulnerability management processes and procedures are documented and maintained in accordance with MUFG standards and regulatory expectations.

·         Review and validate vulnerability assessment outputs and support consistent risk classification methodologies.

Security Risk Assessment & Prioritisation

·         Assess emerging vulnerabilities impacting crown-jewel assets and critical business services, leveraging AI Mythos insights, threat intelligence, exploitability analysis, and business context to determine risk exposure and drive remediation priorities.

·         Support the evolution of vulnerability management from a compliance-focused activity to a risk-based exposure management capability through continuous assessment of security posture, attack paths, and threat-informed risk analytics.

Stakeholder Management & Security Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to technology, infrastructure, application, and business teams on vulnerability management and cyber risk matters.

·         Collaborate with stakeholders to define practical remediation and mitigation plans that balance security requirements with operational considerations.

·         Promote consistent security standards, controls, and best practices across Banking and Securities technology functions.

Security Monitoring & Posture Management

• Identify security control weaknesses and coordinate corrective actions.
• Ensure that technical safeguards across operating systems, databases, networks, cloud platforms, and applications are appropriately implemented and managed.
• Support proactive identification and management of security threats, vulnerabilities, and emerging attack techniques.

Audit, Regulatory & Risk Management Support

• Support internal and external audits, regulatory reviews, and information security assessments.
• Act as a key liaison between Technology, Operational Risk, Compliance, regulators, auditors, and Head Office stakeholders.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

·         10years of experience in vulnerability management or cyber risk functions

·         Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments

·         Qualys Cloud Portal & PowerBI

·         Knowledge of cloud security frameworks, AI Mythos, Cyber tools and technologies

·         Experience collaborating with DLP, Endpoint Security, Infrastructure, and Application Security teams to support risk remediation and control effectiveness.

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SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

·         Degree educated or equivalent experience

·         Expertise in vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., Qualys, ServiceNow SecOps VR)

·         Knowledge of patch management and system hardening practices

·         Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

·         Stakeholder management

Education / Qualifications:

Essential

·         Degree educated and / or equivalent experience.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

·         Excellent communication skills

·         Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability

·         A proactive, motivated approach. 

·         The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly

·         Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement

·         A structured and logical approach to work

·         Strong problem solving skills

·         A creative and innovative approach to work

·         Excellent interpersonal skills

·         The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines

·         Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

·         A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment

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.