Data Governance Coordinator – NY/NJ

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 150,000 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.

The Data Governance Coordinator will support the day-to-day operations of the Data Office, coordinating governance forums, calendars, action items, management reporting, policy and standard variances, and audit and regulatory requests. The role will coordinate Data Domain Working Groups and senior management data forums, including scheduling, agendas and materials, action tracking, and follow-up.

The Analyst will also consolidate updates across teams and regions and prepare recurring management reports, presentations, and basic dashboards to provide visibility into key activities, milestones, risks, and outstanding actions. The role requires someone who is highly organized, structured, detail-oriented, and a strong communicator, with proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their career or looking to transition into data management, providing broad exposure to an enterprise Data Office, senior management, and disciplines including data governance, data quality, metadata and lineage, enterprise data platforms, policy and standards, and transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate Data Domain Working Groups and senior management data forums, including scheduling and calendar management, agendas, materials, attendee coordination, meeting communications, and logistics.
• Document key decisions and actions, maintain centralized trackers, and proactively follow up with owners to ensure commitments and deadlines are met.
• Consolidate updates across Data Office teams and regions and prepare recurring management reports, PowerPoint presentations, status summaries, and basic dashboards.
• Coordinate the intake, documentation, and tracking of Data Management Policy and Standard variances, including required follow-up and management reporting.
• Coordinate audit and regulatory requests, including identifying appropriate owners, organizing responses and supporting documentation, tracking deadlines and commitments, and escalating potential delays.
• Support broader Data Office priorities and initiatives by coordinating deliverables across business, technology, data, and regional stakeholders and maintaining organized program documentation.

Qualifications

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple calendars, meetings, stakeholders, deliverables, and deadlines while maintaining strong follow-through.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, including complex scheduling and calendar management, as well as PowerPoint and Excel for presentations, reporting, tracking, and analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the professionalism and judgment to work effectively with stakeholders through senior management.
• Ability to coordinate structured processes involving actions, documentation, approvals, deadlines, and escalations, ensuring commitments are tracked through completion.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to consolidate information from multiple sources, identify key themes, and communicate them clearly.
• Collaborative, proactive, and intellectually curious, with a strong interest in developing knowledge of enterprise data management, governance, and the broader Data Office.

Career Opportunity

This role provides a broad entry point into an enterprise Data Office. The individual will gain exposure to Data Domain teams, senior management forums, enterprise initiatives, Data Management Policy and Standards, audit and regulatory activities, management reporting, and the broader enterprise data ecosystem. For someone earlier in their career or making a career pivot, the position provides a strong foundation for future opportunities in data governance, data quality, metadata and lineage, data product management, business analysis, program management, risk management, or data transformation.

The successful candidate will become a trusted coordination point within the Data Office. Governance forums are scheduled and run effectively, calendars and meeting logistics are proactively managed, materials are ready, actions have defined owners and deadlines, formal requests are appropriately tracked, and leadership has timely visibility into priorities, milestones, commitments, and outstanding issues.

 

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

 

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”

 

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $103-121 K

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.

 

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

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.