Working Student - Banking (Resilience)

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.

Would you like to work for one of the World's largest banks in an exciting, dynamic and international environment?

We are currently recruiting for a Working Student for our Resilience Team within the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Division in Amsterdam.

About MUFG

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,000 locations in more than 40 countries. The Group has about 150,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to “be the world’s most trusted financial group” through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english.

About MUFG In The European Economic Area

Following the decision taken by the UK in 2016 to leave the European Union, MUFG has taken all of the necessary steps to ensure the continuation of all services to clients, regardless of their location. Clients located in the European Economic Area (EEA) access services through MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. as well as MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.

About MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V.

MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. (MBE) is a fully owned subsidiary of MUFG Bank, headquartered in Amsterdam. With offices throughout Europe, our teams provide clients with comprehensive financing solutions spanning Coverage & Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Transaction Banking, using MUFG’s global reach to provide bespoke solutions.

Please visit our website for more information – https://www.mufgemea.com/mbe

About The Resilience Team

The Resilience team helps ensure that MUFG Bank Europe can continue to deliver critical services to clients, even during disruptions. We oversee key areas including Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), vendor management, procurement oversight, operational resilience, business continuity management, outsourcing governance and regulatory compliance.

As a Working Student, you will gain hands-on experience in a wide range of resilience-related activities and work closely with colleagues across Europe, providing excellent exposure to the banking sector and to how a global financial institution manages risk and resilience.

Your impact at MUFG

This Working Student role offers an excellent opportunity to gain practical experience within a dynamic and international banking environment.

You will support the Resilience team across a variety of activities, including:

• Supporting Third-Party Risk Management activities, including supplier assessments and due diligence reviews.
• Assisting with vendor management and procurement-related processes and documentation.
• Supporting the maintenance of outsourcing and third-party inventories.
• Contributing to business continuity management activities, including testing, reporting and documentation updates.
• Assisting with operational resilience initiatives and regulatory deliverables.
• Supporting the preparation of management information, presentations and reports for governance committees and senior management.
• Performing data analysis, quality assurance and record maintenance activities.
• Supporting process improvement initiatives and helping leverage tools such as Microsoft Copilot to increase efficiency.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across multiple departments and countries within MUFG.
• Assisting with ad hoc projects and administrative activities arising within the Resilience team.

In order to be successful in the role, you will need the following:

Essential

• Currently enrolled as a full-time student with interest in or affinity with banking, financial services, or related field
• Fluent language skills (verbal, written) in English;
• Working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Word;
• Ability to use AI tools (i.e. Microsoft Copilot) to improve work efficiency.
• Good communication, writing and presentation skills;
• Proactive self-starter, intrapreneurial, able to handle a significant and diverse workload;
• Good working habits, high attention to detail, results driven, willing to learn;
• Think independently and critically to create own views;
• Calm, structured and logical approach to work, pragmatic;
• Team player with ability to collaborate in cross-division teams and display organizational sensitivity;
• Ability to work in multicultural environment, respecting diversity.

Nice To Have

• Previous internship or work experience within financial services, risk management, procurement, consulting or a related field.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Automate or other data visualization tools.
• Experience working with large datasets and performing data analysis.
• Basic knowledge of operational resilience, business continuity management, outsourcing or third-party risk management.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and/or Python.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and collaboration tools.