Assistant Tech Jobs in Summit, NJ (NOW HIRING)

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. 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.

With your expertise and proven success using analytical thinking and iterative problem-solving, you have what it takes to strategically and tactically manage programs and processes. Whether balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders or making sound decisions using data, analysis, experience, and a risk mindset, you will serve as a trusted advisor who routinely solves complex business problems and delivers against milestones. In the process, you will have exciting opportunities to develop your skills, expand your network, and build your career.

Responsibilities:

• Support the reporting, analysis, and review of budgeted headcount to include requisition management for one more technology divisions.

• Must have strong business and financial acumen and be comfortable dealing with complex financial analysis and concepts within an IT organization.

• Results oriented, exhibits passion for excellence and drives results; conveys sense of urgency and timely tracks open items to closure.

• Works with Internal customers (employees and business units), to streamline business processes and break down barriers to align to business priorities, leveraging automation to improve efficiency.

• Provide strategic guidance and advisory services to technology heads to improve consistency and standardization

• Work with Project Management Office to align business unit strategy with annual appropriations and midterm business plan submissions

• Own and manage IT business unit financial plan and cost controls

• Work with IT business unit and business unit finance team to monitor and control financial spend

• Provide clear insight into vendor spend, maintenance renewals, and other outside costs for execution by vendor operations.

• Engage in key stakeholder communications, stakeholder governance routines, leadership meetings, and management routines

• Support processes and facilitate leadership level staff meetings, town halls, and communication for one or more technology divisions

• Manage the collection of business unit information for governance and risk management routines and ensure that deliverables are completed on time with quality

• Deliver on Ad Hoc requests or initiatives for your business as they arise in support of the CIO, Division Leaders or other leadership as needed

• Support the fixed capacity model by ensuring supply and demand are accurately reflected in the portfolio management tool

• Provide leadership on Portfolio Management tool to assist technology divisions and resource managers with best practices, training, and reporting to effectively manage fixed capacity

• Be the Subject Matter Expert on the Portfolio Management tool for ITA, providing consultation to the unit technology Resource Managers.

• Partner with Resource Control Tower (HC tracking) to provide input and improvement on resource data and reporting to understand needed focus areas.

• Coordinate with PMO to understand project demand and BAU fixed capacity impacts.

• Develop processes to drive alignment between budget/forecast to fixed capacity in the portfolio tool 

Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or Operations or Business / Management or Finance related fields.

• Equivalent work experience equally preferable.

• 8+ years of overall professional and leadership experience

• Minimum of 6 years overall experience in Finance and/or Business Management.

• Preferred experience: previous work at a financial services firm

• Experience working with budgets, planning, and appropriations business cycles.

• Leadership experience in conducting working sessions, facilitating focus groups, driving team meetings and process improvement sessions etc.

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and an ability to interact with all levels of management.

• Strong skills in risk assessment analysis and a solid understanding of business and financial markets

• Deep understanding of respective business area, the budget/forecast, and its inherent risk

• Solid understanding and planning skills in all aspects of the system's/business project life-cycle

• Demonstrated track record of delivering positive results in project work, including high quality implementations, cost savings, additional revenue, within time and budgetary constraints

• Aptitude to prioritize and analyze a list of measurable product or service characteristics along with associated target values

• Ability to develop and oversee strategic goals and measurement, aligning to various initiatives to drive realization of strategic goals and business plans.

• Proven ability to reach an audience through effective and clear presentations, writing skills and excellent communication strategies

• Planview experience is preferred

The typical base range for this role is between $149K and $180K per year 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

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.