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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

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

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

MUFG is seeking a Director and Leader of the Americas Data Privacy and Protection Office (DPPO). The Director of Americas DPPO will lead the data privacy and protection compliance team for MUFG Americas, including the US, Canada, and Latin America.  The position reports to the Global Chief Privacy Officer and plays a key leadership role in developing and implementing MUFG’s data privacy and protection program.

Responsibilities:

Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of MUFG Americas Privacy program by:

Providing advice and guidance to business units and corporate functions on Privacy program risks.

Maintaining current knowledge of Americas laws and regulations relating to data privacy and protection, and implementing appropriate changes to existing policies, standards and compliance programs based on legal and regulatory developments.

Participating in the development, implementation and maintenance of policies, standards, procedures, assessment processes and response plans.

Manage the Americas DPPO team and ongoing data privacy and protection compliance activities by:

Leading Privacy Impact Assessments, data subject access response, and the review of new products, services, and technology initiatives.

Managing the privacy incident response process for Team responsible for responding to privacy incidents in the Americas region.

Working with Compliance stakeholders to develop and implement privacy risk assessment and testing programs.

Maintaining and overseeing Leading the ongoing privacy monitoring processes of privacy risks.

Developing and reviewing privacy training program content.

Interacting with Legal and Compliance stakeholders, and other liaisons.

Qualifications:

10+ years’ experience supporting a data privacy program, including leadership experience.  Experience working in financial services preferred.

Strong Knowledge of U.S, Canada, and Latin America data privacy and data protection laws and regulations.

Strong writing and presentation skills including the ability to prepare clear and concise summaries and reports.

High attention to detail and extremely organized to effectively manage multiple concurrent priorities.

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, and to adapt to unexpected changes.

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing to stakeholders at all levels of the organization. 

Strong sense of ownership to drive tasks to completion and to identify opportunities for improvement. 

Bachelor’s degree required; Graduate degree and CIPP certification strongly preferred.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $180K - $240K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.