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Join Mizuho as a Murex Governance & Controls Manager!

Murex Governance & Controls establishes and runs the governance and operational backbone of the Murex COE. The role provides central coordination, controls, reporting, and governance discipline to ensure that the Murex platform operates under a data-driven, transparent, and well-governed operating model.

This function ensures that all stabilization, change, release, and architectural initiatives are executed predictably, auditable, and aligned with business priorities — while giving senior management factual, timely visibility into platform performance, risks, and progress.

Key Responsibilities

1. Governance, Process & Controls

+ Establish, maintain, and enforce SOPs, governance standards, RACI frameworks, and documentation requirements across all COE functions.

+ Co-chair the Murex Change Advisory Board (MCAB) with Delivery Assurance, ensuring releases are fully risk-assessed, tested, and auditable.

+ Define and then operate the Release Risk Assessment Framework, ensuring objective evaluation of each change request and release.

+ Ensure full traceability between incidents and changes through control matrices and automated evidence collection.

+ Oversee audit readiness and regulatory alignment, ensuring controls are robust, documented, and consistently executed.

+ Track and publish governance and compliance KPIs, including RCA closure, documentation currency, CAB adherence, control execution, and change success ratios.

+ Lead control attestations, ensuring evidence completeness for SOX, ITIL, operational risk, and technology risk standards.

2. Program, Reporting & Operations

+ Maintains the Integrated Murex Program Plan, covering stabilization, releases, infrastructure work, projects and transformation initiatives.

+ Run the weekly management cadence across Run, Change, and Control pillars — ensuring alignment, escalation, and priority clarity.

+ Own the Murex KPI framework, covering incidents, RCA closure, stability metrics, MTTR, batch performance, automation coverage, release success rate, and delivery velocity.

+ Produce executive dashboards and narrative reporting for senior management, governance committees, regulators, and audit functions.

+ Maintain the Stability Tracker and long-term trend analytics, demonstrating measurable improvement over time.

+ Identify blockers, cross-stream conflicts, and delivery risks; drive escalation and resolution.

+ Provide structured communication, transparency, and consistent messaging across Technology, Business, and Risk stakeholders.

3. Cross-Functional Stewardship

+ Act as the operations manager for the COE — ensuring consistent and coordinated execution across Production Support, Delivery Assurance, Infrastructure, Architecture, Stabilization, and Design Authorities.

+ Provide the Head of Murex COE with a unified operational view of progress, risks, metrics, capacity, and budget.

+ Ensure the Murex COE operates under a predictable, controlled, and metrics-driven framework, with high confidence from senior stakeholders.

Key Skills & Experience

Operational & Governance Expertise

+ Deep experience running program governance and operational control functions in a complex technology environment.

+ Strong command of ITIL, technology risk, SOX/ITGC, and change management frameworks.

+ Proven ability to design and enforce governance structures and control processes.

Data & Reporting Leadership

+ Demonstrated experience owning KPIs, dashboards, executive reporting, and data modeling for large-scale technology programs.

+ Ability to transform data into insight and insight into clear, actionable communication.

Stakeholder & Communication Skills

+ Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate technology stability, risk, and progress to senior executives.

+ Skilled at managing conflicting priorities and driving alignment across diverse technology and business teams.

Domain Expertise (Preferred)

+ Understanding of capital markets, derivatives products, and front-to-back trade flows.

+ Exposure to Murex or similar trading/risk platforms is a significant advantage.

Success Measures

+ Stability KPIs trending positively with clear root-cause transparency.

+ Timely, accurate executive dashboards that build management confidence.

+ Strong adherence to governance controls and regulatory expectations.

+ Predictable release execution with fewer incidents linked to change.

+ A well-coordinated COE where decisions, priorities, and risks are transparent.

The expected base salary ranges from $200k-$300k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

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Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process .

Company Overview

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill​, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.​​

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an EEO/AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran.

We participate in the E-Verify program.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing as permitted by applicable law.

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