Vice President, Core Legal Counsel

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 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.

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Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

Your day-to-day activities will involve providing support to the team reviewing, negotiating and responding to queries relating to all vendor contracts entered into between MUFG and third party vendors including inter-affiliate documentation ensuring all agreements meet operational resilience transfer-pricing governance regulatory requirements.

You will act as the principal escalation point for vendor contracting issues guiding personnel through comments and feedback from third party vendors and/or intra-group outsource providers through challenging situations. In addition, you will offer backup support for regional projects corporate initiatives assist with employment law, regulatory, compliance matters. manage external counsel, collaborate closely with business control functions to identify mitigate escalate legal risks.

You will also establish and maintain contractual controls, approval and escalation processes, templates, playbooks, and records. Your responsibilities will include supporting due-diligence risk assessments from a legal perspective and attending the TPRM Committee meetings.

Furthermore, another aspect of your role will include third-party governance, data and information-security reviews, regulatory notifications and responses, internal investigations, and communicating relevant legal and regulatory developments.

• Lead or support the drafting, review, and negotiation of vendor agreements including technology, outsourcing, cloud services, data management, professional services, facilities arrangements, and other third-party contracts while advising on procurement strategy and contracting standards.
• Prepare, review and negotiate inter-affiliate agreements such as service-level arrangements, cost-sharing documents, secondment contracts, data-sharing agreements, ensuring alignment with governance requirements and regulatory standards.
• Provide advice on employment law matters including policies development, employee relations management, investigations handling, disciplinary processes oversight, workforce changes facilitation, mobility issues resolution, and terminations guidance.
• Deliver regulatory and compliance advice on new laws implementation, regulatory change adaptation, licensing requirements fulfilment, conduct monitoring, conflicts resolution strategies, financial crime prevention measures, privacy protection protocols, records management systems enhancement and internal policy support.
• Build trusted relationships with internal clients by offering clear communication and commercially focused advice while engaging early with Procurement, Technology Operations Human Resources Compliance Risk teams to understand objectives structure workable solutions improve contracting turnaround times support consistent decision-making.
• Work collaboratively across Legal business control functions sharing know-how promoting consistent legal standards throughout APAC providing guidance informal coaching to junior lawyers secondees business stakeholders contributing to training on contracting employment regulatory compliance topics supporting an inclusive high-performing well-controlled working environment.
• Identify, assess, document, and help mitigate legal risks related to vendor relationships, interaffiliate arrangements, employment matters, regulatory obligations, and compliance requirements;
• establish and maintain appropriate contractual controls, approval and escalation processes, templates, playbooks, and records.
• Support due diligence risk assessments outsourcing third-party governance, data and information-security reviews, regulatory notifications and responses, internal investigations, and communicating relevant legal and regulatory developments.

• At least 7 years’ post-qualification experience gained in reputable law firm financial institution multinational organisation demonstrating ability to lead review negotiation of complex vendor inter-affiliate agreements is essential.
• Proven track record advising on employment regulatory compliance matters in one or more APAC jurisdictions coordinating multi-jurisdictional advice managing disputes investigations instructing external counsel strongly preferred.
• Experience reviewing contracts for Singapore and Hong Kong is mandatory; experience in Australia optional but beneficial for broader regional coverage.
• Demonstrated expertise in commercial contracting, particularly vendor technology outsourcing, professional services intra-group agreements with ability to identify negotiate material legal regulatory data operational resilience liability termination risks.
• Working knowledge of employment law financial-services regulation compliance frameworks across APAC enabling you to provide sound advice on policies employee relations investigations disciplinary grievance processes workforce changes mobility terminations.
• Exceptional legal judgement commercial awareness clear drafting negotiation skills allowing you to translate complex requirements into practical actionable advice for stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management project management communication skills enabling you to manage competing priorities across multiple jurisdictions while maintaining collaborative proactive solutions-oriented approach.
• Qualified lawyer in common-law or other relevant jurisdiction holding current practising certificate or eligibility to practise where required; relevant postgraduate employment privacy technology compliance financial-services qualifications advantageous.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.