Associate, Business Analyst – Global Markets Technology

Company: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Location: New York City
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

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. Job Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated Associate, Business Analyst to drive strategic technology initiatives across Global Capital Markets. The role partners closely with stakeholders across the full trade lifecycle—from Front Office through Middle Office, Back Office, Finance/P&L, and Market Risk—to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for technology teams. The position contributes to platform modernization, workflow optimization, and cross-system integration efforts, ensuring technology solutions align with business objectives and regulatory expectations. Success in this role requires strong analytical capabilities, comfort analyzing data and system flows, and the ability to influence stakeholders across diverse functional groups. The role also requires foundational project?management skills, including coordinating cross?functional activities, supporting project planning, and helping ensure deliverables are met within expected timelines. Key Responsibilities: Engage with business and technology stakeholders to capture complete functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring alignment across teams. Translate complex business processes into clear, actionable specifications that enable efficient development and accurate implementation. Maintain comprehensive, well-structured documentation covering system functionality, process flows, and release deliverables. Partner with Front, Middle, and Back Office teams—as well as Finance/P&L and Market Risk—to understand trading workflows and identify requirements and improvement opportunities. Act as a liaison between business partners and developer, QA, and architecture teams, ensuring requirements are feasible, clearly understood, and delivered effectively. Collaborate with technology teams to review data flows, integration points, and system interactions to support robust design and seamless end to end operation. Validate functional designs early in the lifecycle to confirm alignment with business objectives and minimize downstream rework. Support test planning, UAT execution, defect triage, and post release validation to ensure high quality, stable deployments. Manage user stories, sprint activities, and issue tracking within Jira, maintaining structured project documentation in Confluence. Contribute to project governance through transparent status reporting, proactive risk identification, and structured issue management. Assist with project planning activities by tracking timelines, identifying dependencies, and monitoring delivery progress. Coordinate cross functional meetings, action items, and status updates to support project execution. Use SQL, AWS, Python, and related tools to conduct root cause analysis of production issues, assess business impact, and coordinate timely resolution. Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Information Systems, Economics, or related field. 5 years of Business Analyst experience within investment banking or financial services, with a deep understanding of capital markets workflows. Deep knowledge of front, middle, and back-office processes and the systems that support them. Familiarity with applicable capital markets regulatory and compliance requirements. Ability to interpret data models, perform SQL-based analysis, and understand system-to-system integrations. Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, BPM/process-mapping tools, and requirements-management tooling. Strong communication and documentation skills, with demonstrated ability to influence and manage stakeholders across functions. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities with strong organizational discipline. Foundational project-management skills, including the ability to coordinate cross-functional activities and support project planning and delivery. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with SQL, Python, AWS, and modern data or ML-adjacent tooling. Hands-on experience using Jira and Confluence within Agile or hybrid delivery models. Exposure to market data, pricing, risk, regulatory reporting, or trade-lifecycle systems. Understanding system integration concepts and application lifecycle-management best practices. Demonstrated ability to support project planning by maintaining milestone visibility, tracking progress, and coordinating activities across teams. Proven capability working within Agile/hybrid delivery teams, including hands-on participation in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and issue/risk coordination. The typical base pay range for this role is between $110K - $120K 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.

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