Senior Associate Director, Controls - Third Party Management

About the role

MUFG Investor Services is looking for a Senior Associate Director, Controls, Third Party Management in Dublin. The role leads the oversight and governance of third-party, outsourced and intragroup service arrangements across the Group and its legal entities, ensuring they are identified, risk-assessed, approved, documented, monitored and exited in line with internal policy and regulatory expectations in jurisdictions such as Ireland and the Cayman Islands. It supports the Head of Third Party Management and the Head of Controls.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Group's third-party management and outsourcing framework, including policies, standards, procedures, governance forums and management information.
• Ensure consistent application of methods for identifying outsourcing and classifying arrangements as critical, important or material.
• Provide senior challenge and decision support to business owners and governance committees on risk acceptance, control requirements and proportionality of oversight.
• Oversee risk-based due diligence, onboarding, approvals, periodic review, monitoring, issue remediation, renewal and exit planning.
• Drive performance and control oversight, including SLA/KPI monitoring, issue escalation, control testing support, review of independent assurance and challenge of remediation plans.
• Maintain the third-party inventory and registers, and produce management information, risk reports and committee papers.
• Support responses to internal audit, compliance monitoring, regulatory requests and inspections, and lead client assurance activities such as due diligence reviews and questionnaires.
• Act as a senior subject matter expert for business leaders, boards and control functions, and lead a third-party management training programme.
• Lead, coach and develop junior TPM staff and build working relationships across jurisdictions and functions.

Required profile

• Primary degree in business, finance, accounting, law, risk or a related discipline.
• At least 6 years' experience in fund administration, financial services or a regulated industry.
• Significant experience in third-party management, outsourcing governance, supplier risk, operational risk or vendor management.
• Experience preparing materials for and engaging with senior management, boards, risk committees, Compliance, Internal Audit and regulators.
• Professional qualifications in risk, audit, compliance, procurement or outsourcing governance are desirable but not essential.