About the Role
MUFG, one of the world's leading financial groups with a heritage spanning over 360 years, is seeking a Vice President, Senior Project Management Office (PMO) to join their London-based Cyber Portfolio team. This role sits within MUFG's EMEA Technology division, playing a crucial part in delivering strategic cyber security projects that address emerging risks, including those posed by AI. You will collaborate closely with senior leaders across multiple regions and entities, ensuring robust governance and effective delivery.
•Join a globally recognised financial institution with a strong culture of integrity, transparency, and honest communication; benefit from working alongside knowledgeable professionals committed to shared success.
•Play a key role in managing and transforming the Cyber Portfolio within EMEA Technology, collaborating with diverse teams across London, Tokyo, and other international locations; your efforts will directly support MUFG's vision to be the world's most trusted financial partner.
•Enjoy flexible working opportunities and access to extensive training resources; MUFG is dedicated to nurturing talent and supporting your professional development as you help drive sustainable growth for clients and society.
What you'll do
As Vice President, Senior Project Management Office within MUFG's Cyber Portfolio Function in London, you will be instrumental in supporting the delivery of complex cyber security projects across EMEA. Your day-to-day responsibilities will involve close collaboration with senior stakeholders—including the Head of Portfolio Delivery, Regional CISO teams in London and Tokyo—and cross-functional partners such as Finance and Project Governance. You will champion process excellence by implementing MUFG's toolsets and methodologies while influencing programme managers to adhere to best practices. Your expertise in document control will ensure all artefacts are maintained accurately throughout the project lifecycle. Financial oversight is central to your role: you'll manage forecasts versus actuals across multiple funding sources while responding swiftly to urgent requests. You'll also coordinate assurance activities like stage-gate reviews and change control workshops. By producing tailored management information reports for executive audiences and maintaining rigorous status reporting—including RAID logs—you'll provide clarity on progress against milestones. Your ability to foster effective communication across programmes ensures global alignment on cyber risk reduction strategies. Continuous improvement is encouraged: you'll lead enhancements to project management standards in partnership with Central PMO teams. Ultimately, your collaborative approach will help build a unified PMO function that supports both MUFG Bank and Securities entities while driving sustainable growth.
•Support the Head of Cyber Portfolio in planning, controlling, monitoring, and organising the portfolio book of work while ensuring compliance with governance standards and reporting requirements.
•Own and drive portfolio reporting by creating monthly packs from updates provided by programme and project managers using Planview & JIRA; tailor management information for various audiences.
•Review deliverables produced across programmes and projects for completeness and accuracy, providing structured feedback to project managers to ensure alignment with lifecycle methodology.
•Work closely with Delivery Assurance to schedule key checkpoints for assurance gateway reviews and facilitate stage-gate processes.
•Collaborate with project managers to maintain project hygiene including finance planning, resource allocation, reporting cadence, and adherence to baselined milestone dates.
•Act as a key interface between the portfolio and governance functions such as HO Cybersecurity Division (CSD), EMEA Central PMO, Project Reporting & Accounting teams, ensuring seamless communication.
•Manage project documentation including storage, version control, deliverable reviews, RACI matrices, stakeholder plans, governance controls, resource tracking, and budget updates.
•Support financial management by overseeing actuals versus forecasts, handling urgent requests promptly, managing invoices/requisitions by project managers, and proactively managing contingency funds.
•Produce meeting minutes for steering committees or working groups; track actions to completion; generate management information (MI) reports on progress for key forums.
•Coordinate planning activities with Programme/Project Managers including critical path analysis, milestone grading, detailed financial tracking, "what-if" impact analysis in response to challenges.
What you bring
Your extensive background as Vice President, Senior Project Management Office equips you with deep expertise in executive-level reporting and financial oversight within complex portfolios. You bring advanced technical skills in Planview/JIRA PPM tools—enabling efficient extraction/manipulation of data sets—and are highly proficient in Excel formulae or Power BI for generating insightful month-end deliverables. Your accounting acumen allows you to categorise costs accurately while understanding their implications on entity-wide financial statements. You have managed books/records throughout entire project lifecycles—ensuring compliance with governance standards—and are adept at structuring budgets across programmes for streamlined updates. Your formal training (Prince II Foundation/PMI/APM) underpins your comprehensive knowledge of Waterfall/Agile methodologies including RAID log management. You excel at facilitating steering committees/workshops by capturing actionable minutes that drive progress. Your interpersonal skills enable you to build relationships across diverse teams—fostering trustful collaboration—and your strategic mindset helps balance high-level objectives with practical outcomes. You are known for your calm approach under pressure: prioritising tasks efficiently while maintaining accountability for timely delivery. Your willingness to nurture others towards compliance ensures that documentation cadence is maintained consistently across projects.
•Minimum 8-10 years' proven experience in executive reporting and financial process delivery within large-scale organisations; demonstrable track record of supporting complex portfolios.
•Accounting expertise in understanding project cost categorisation (capital vs expense) and its impact on broader entity-level financial reporting.
•Advanced proficiency as an end user of Planview or JIRA PPM tools; skilled at extracting/manipulating large data sets using Excel formulae or Power BI for month-end deliverables.
•Experience with Oracle Financials or equivalent payables module; expert knowledge of MS PowerPoint; intermediate skills in Word/SharePoint.
•Comprehensive knowledge of Waterfall/Agile project delivery lifecycles including RAID log management; experience defining requirements/implementing frameworks for others.
•Proven ability to support working groups/steering committees by taking accurate minutes; adept at managing books/records throughout project lifetimes.
•Demonstrated experience managing baselines/change control (scope/plan/budget); skilled at structuring financials across programmes for consistent updates by team members.
•Ability to influence others positively towards compliance with project lifecycle standards/documentation cadence; strong numerical skills underpinning financial management.
•Formal project management training required (Prince II Foundation/PMI/APM); A-level education or equivalent essential; degree or equivalent work experience preferred.
•Excellent interpersonal relationship-building skills; able to collaborate effectively across diverse skill sets/organisational levels; strategic mindset balancing big picture/practical impact.
What sets this company apart
MUFG stands out as one of the world's leading financial groups thanks to its unwavering commitment to integrity, responsibility, fairness, transparency, and honesty. With over 180,000 employees operating from more than 3,000 offices worldwide—including a significant presence in London—the company offers unparalleled opportunities for personal growth within a supportive network. Employees benefit from flexible working arrangements designed around their needs as well as generous training resources that encourage continuous learning. MUFG's vision is not only focused on being the most trusted financial partner but also on fostering shared prosperity through long-term relationships built on mutual respect. By joining MUFG's EMEA Technology division you become part of an environment where collaboration thrives—supported by knowledgeable colleagues who share your passion for excellence—and where your contributions help drive sustainable growth both internally and externally.
What's next
We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
