Vice President, APAC Head of Regional Intelligence Unit

About the role

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is recruiting a Vice President, APAC Head of the Regional Intelligence Unit, based in its Singapore office. The role leads the Regional Intelligence Unit in Asia and delivers timely, high-quality intelligence and investigative support across the region, while setting priorities, managing complex reviews, maintaining investigative standards and escalating material financial crime risks.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Regional Intelligence Unit and set priorities aligned with regional and global financial crime objectives.
• Oversee complex intelligence reviews, investigations and risk assessments covering customers, counterparties, transactions and cross-border activity.
• Provide direction and quality challenge on investigative analysis, conclusions, recommendations and escalation decisions.
• Manage regional intelligence requests, internal escalations and time-sensitive reviews; oversee investigations and validate outputs.
• Ensure reports and workpapers are clear, evidence-based, consistent and audit-ready.
• Identify emerging financial crime risks, typologies, trends and control weaknesses in Asia.
• Coordinate with global investigations, regional compliance, country teams, legal, sanctions, transaction monitoring and other control functions, and escalate material risks promptly.
• Develop procedures, quality standards, escalation thresholds and management information, and monitor workload, timeliness, quality and capacity.
• Build team capability through coaching, training, feedback and quality calibration, and support regulatory, audit and senior management requests.
• Promote the controlled use of data, analytics and AI in investigative processes.

Required profile

• At least 10 years' experience in financial crime compliance, investigations, intelligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions, law enforcement or a related field.
• Experience leading complex financial crime investigations and intelligence reviews in a financial institution or comparable organisation.
• Knowledge of financial crime risks, investigative methods, evidence standards and escalation requirements.
• Experience across multiple APAC jurisdictions and cross-border matters, and engaging senior regional and global stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience; a professional qualification in anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, investigations, compliance or risk management is preferred.

Required skills

• Strong investigative judgment, critical thinking and written and verbal communication skills.
• Leadership, coaching, stakeholder management, organisation and prioritisation.
• High standards of integrity, confidentiality and professional judgment.
• Familiarity with data analytics and AI-supported investigative tools is preferred; APAC market knowledge and language capability are advantageous.