Director, Data Scientist in United States

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

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 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.

Purpose of the Job

This position sits within the Regional Business Development Department (“RBDD”) based in Singapore in the Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Asia Pacific. We are looking for a highly motivated personnel with strong leadership to be able to support Head of Business Intelligence & Analytics and deliver the overall GCIB APAC Analytics Operating Model and Strategy. The Analytics Centre of Excellence (CoE) team reports into the Head of RBDD in Singapore.

This is a key role within GCBDA RBDD. Based on where the best suited candidate is identified, the Company is happy to hire for this role in Singapore or Hong Kong.

Job Description

• Working within the GCIB APAC Analytics CoE, you will leverage huge volumes of Structured and Unstructured data to solve real business problems across the business to increase revenues and deliver a great customer experience, improved productivity and reduce risk.

• Develop and implement techniques and analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualisation software.

• Design, develop, and maintain the organization’s data architecture, including data pipelines, databases, and data warehouses.

• Develop and maintain ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to efficiently move data from various sources to the data.

• Develop predictive and prescriptive models to achieve business and commercial goals.

• Explore and identify patterns, trends, and anomalies in data.

• You will work closely with business to understand their problem statements & apply Data Science and analytics techniques.

• Visualise, interpret, and report data findings and may create dynamic data reports as well

• Implement data quality checks and monitoring processes to identify and resolve data issues in a timely manner.

• Collaborate with rest of analytics team members and other cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver data solutions that meet business needs.

• Support division and department to drive improvement in the process and operational efficiency.

• Promote MUFG and team culture, and foster team collaboration

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or Information Technology or Accounting, Finance, or equivalent;

• Minimum 10 years of experience in banking or consultancy with background in Data and reporting;

• Experience with building and maintaining database for all financial and non- financial information

• Experience with data management and reconciling data across several sources;

• Keen eye for detail and Intermediate proficiency in MS Office (Project, PowerPoint, Excel), Qlikview, Tableau, Python, Alteryx and SQL;

• Work closely with business analysts to create data components;

• Experience in application packaging and deployment across DEV to PROD environments;

• Demonstrated problem solving abilities, especially complex, ambiguous problems requiring integrated application;

• Ability to work under strict timelines and strong communication skills;

• Growth mindset. You seek out learning opportunities for yourself and the team;

• Willingness to problem-solve and hustle to find solutions (even if unconventional), positivity and possess a “can-do” attitude;

• Exceptional analytical skills to understand a diverse array of programs and complex end-to-end workflows;

• High level of resilience.

MUFG Bank Ltd & MUFG Securities Asia Limited (collectively referred to as “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.

At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!

Our Culture Principles

• Client Centric

• People Focused

• Listen Up. Speak Up.

• Innovate & Simplify

• Own & Execute