Corporate Communications, Vice President

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.

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.

Role Summary:

This position is responsible for supporting and promoting MUFG in the Americas by conceptualizing and implementing high-impact communications strategies and tactics that are consistent with our overarching business objectives. The successful candidate must have proven experience across the broad spectrum of corporate communications to help drive content creation and distribution through a range of channels, including the bank’s intranet platform.

For this opportunity, MUFG places a premium on exceptional writing and editing skills. The ideal candidate must thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and have a proven history of serving as a trusted communications advisor to senior-level executives and colleagues across the company. We are seeking someone who will exercise keen judgment, be adaptable and make well-reasoned recommendations. Excellent organizational skills, the ability to see assignments through with minimal oversight, and an eye for detail are also imperative.

This position requires an experienced communications professional with strong business and financial acumen and experience building relationships across teams. The successful candidate will have background in generating various communications (i.e., conducting interviews, draft stories for the company intranet, leadership messages, talking points, Q&A documents, speeches/remarks, biographies, video scripts, etc.). The ideal candidate must seamlessly integrate into a driven, high-performing communications team to achieve maximum effectiveness. 

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage the writing, editing, and execution of various internal documents, such as organizational announcements, speeches/remarks, talking points, executive messaging, town halls, senior leadership meetings, and social media posts, among others, for a variety of audiences.

• Adept at working with a wide range of employees from senior executives to front-line staff and leveraging data, as necessary, to make recommendations to adjust communications planning, as needed.

• Provide communications support to other company-wide initiatives, such as the bank’s corporate strategy. 

• Partner with project and content owners to write and edit a wide range of communications that reflect our business, vision, and goals.

• Craft impactful content for use across a variety of mediums (i.e., email, the company intranet, video channels).

• Track and analyze metrics to measure communications reach and effectiveness while identifying opportunities for improvement.

• Explore and implement new technologies and tools to improve efficiency and enhance colleague engagement.

• Available to provide communications support in times of crisis and special situations, sometimes outside of normal business hours which may require spur-of-the-moment support.

Expected Qualifications:

• B.S. or B.A. in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism or related field. Advanced degree is highly desirable but not required.

• Requires a minimum of 7 years of combined experience in corporate communications, either in a corporate communications division at a consultancy or a news organization. Prior experience with a publicly traded and/or financial services company is preferred.

• Must be a strong, effective communicator, capable of writing clearly and concisely; able to use sound judgment to gather, manage and impart information to various internal stakeholders consistent with the bank’s messaging and positioning; track record of engaging with senior executives

• Strong project management skills and experience, excellent reasoning, analytical, and organizational skills

• Solid copy writing, editing, and interviewing skills

The typical base pay range for this role is between $115K - $146K 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.