Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Preparation of Technology suspense accounts. This includes liaising with account owners to ensure validity and accuracy of individual account transactions and timely capitalization of assets, monitoring cost spend against budget, accruing, calculating withholding tax and markups, invoicing and following up on cash remittance for projects carried out in London on behalf of EMEA offices.Support and contribute to the management and reporting of the Bank’s expenses portfolio. This includes ensuring expense data to be at its most accurate, complete and timely. Forming effective partnerships with all departments within Bank, in EMEA, Head Office as well as our external auditors to seamlessly manage the complete expenses portfolio.Maintain Bank’s leased assets register and prepare all lease related Head Office reportsCo-coordinating Johannesburg Rep office accounting consolidation into Bank London ledgers.Preparation of Bank’s pension accounting journals and reporting.Responsible for review of Application of Systems Development Forms and fixed assets coding in Concur (Payments Systems).Invoicing and following up on cash remittance for services carried out in London on behalf of EMEA offices.Preparation of monthly closing journals, ledger adjustments, analysis and reconciliations. Review business reports to ensure accuracy in General Ledger including accruals processing to ensure reporting within the correct accounting period.Daily account monitoring and reconciliations.Monthly balance sheet controls regarding nostro accountsHalf yearly Variable Interest Entity reportingPreparation of Financial Accounting Reports in order to support the Bank in meeting its deadlines to its various stakeholdersQuarterly and semi-annual Japanese GAAP and US GAAP reporting preparation and review ensuring complete, accurate and timely preparation and submission of reports and following up with auditor queries.Adhoc projects

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Access)Good exposure to accounting software packages.Good written and verbal skillsExcellent communication skillsResults driven, with a strong sense of accountabilityA proactive, motivated approach.The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordinglyStrong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgementA structured and logical approach to workStrong problem solving skillsA creative and innovative approach to workExcellent attention to detail and accuracyA calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized 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.