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Finance F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship jobs in New Jersey put you close to Wall Street's back-office operations, major asset managers, and global banks headquartered in Jersey City and Newark. Firms like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Prudential Financial maintain significant New Jersey operations and have filed STEM OPT-compatible LCAs for quantitative, risk, and data-focused finance roles.
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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:
Responsibilities include implementing and enhancing Oracle PBCS and FCCS applications based on business requirements. Knowledge of PL/SQL, Oracle EPM, Oracle PBCS, FCCS, and Essbase across multiple platforms is essential. As Oracle EPM lead you will assess Oracle EPM Cloud SaaS solutions and collaborate with Senior Architects and other technology stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the team in preparing implementation plans, creating technical specifications based on functional requirements, and conducting feasibility and cost-benefit studies, demonstrating an expert knowledge of systems analysis techniques and a comprehensive understanding of the bank's business and system processes within the organization.
- Interface across multiple business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects and enhancements.
- Responsible for conceptualizing solutions, building consensus, selling, and executing these solutions.
- Work on large, complex projects with enterprise impact, requiring subject matter expertise in multiple process improvement areas and mastery of process improvement tools.
- Conduct formal requirement walkthroughs and obtain user concurrence.
- Validate and ensure that functional requirements are met.
- Conduct formal implementation reviews.
- Manages highly complex projects that require extensive knowledge across multiple Oracle Hyperion products and business segments.
- Provides both formal and informal user training and general user support.
- Functions as an internal consultant for the applications support team.
- Acts as a project team member on multiple projects to facilitate process improvements involving multiple sites or business areas, often as a project leader.
- Lead responsibilities include directing, monitoring, and assigning work to team members.
- Provides technical guidance or mentoring to a small project team of 3 – 5 junior staff members.
Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of dimensional modeling, Data Warehousing concepts, and Oracle EPM Cloud Service
- 3+ years in the financial industry
- 3+ years in IT, including 3+ years leading Oracle PBCS or FCCS projects
- Proficient in MS Excel
- Ability to navigate dynamic environments and drive decisions
- Skill in managing stakeholders' needs and expectations
- Excellent verbal and written communication
Preferred:
- Experience in Banking or Financial Services Technology
- Proficiency in ASO/BSO applications, MAXL scripts, MDX queries
- Knowledge of EDMCS and PCMCS
- Ability to write/update shell scripts, PL/SQL, and understand RDBMS concepts
- Knowledge of ETL tools like Informatica or ODI
- Understands concepts of financial planning, project budgeting, and expense tracking
Education:
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or relevant industry certifications. Equivalent work experience is equally preferable.
Other:
As per MUFG’s work policy, must work onsite 4 days and 1 day remotely.
The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:
- New York / New Jersey: $102k - $171k
- Non–New York / New Jersey: $102k–$154k
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.
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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Which finance companies sponsor F-1 STEM OPT visas in New Jersey?
New Jersey hosts major financial institutions with active STEM OPT sponsorship histories, including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Prudential Financial, Merrill Lynch, and Broadridge Financial Solutions. Insurance carriers and asset managers concentrated in Newark and Parsippany also file Labor Condition Applications for quantitative and data-intensive finance roles. Sponsorship patterns vary by employer and role, so checking DOL LCA disclosure data for each company is worth doing before applying.
Which cities in New Jersey have the most finance F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship jobs?
Jersey City is the dominant hub, functioning as a direct extension of Lower Manhattan's financial district with major bank operations, trading infrastructure, and fintech firms concentrated there. Newark follows, particularly for insurance and asset management roles. Parsippany, Princeton, and Iselin also have notable finance employer presences, especially for back-office, risk analytics, and financial technology positions that commonly align with STEM OPT-eligible degree fields.
What types of finance roles typically qualify for F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship?
Roles requiring quantitative, data science, or engineering skills tend to align most directly with STEM OPT eligibility because they draw on STEM degree programs recognized by the Department of Homeland Security. In New Jersey finance, this commonly includes quantitative analyst, financial data scientist, risk modeling analyst, algorithmic trading developer, and financial engineering positions. Standard business finance roles may qualify depending on your specific degree program's STEM classification, which your DSO can confirm.
How do I find finance F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship jobs in New Jersey?
Migrate Mate filters finance job listings specifically for F-1 STEM OPT sponsorship in New Jersey, surfacing employers with verified LCA filing histories in quantitative, data, and financial engineering roles. This saves significant research time compared to manually cross-referencing OFLC disclosure data. Filtering by Jersey City or Newark on Migrate Mate narrows results to the highest-density finance corridors in the state, where STEM OPT sponsorship is most actively documented.
Are there any New Jersey-specific considerations for F-1 STEM OPT finance sponsorship?
New Jersey finance employers sponsoring STEM OPT workers must comply with DOL prevailing wage requirements specific to the Newark-Jersey City metropolitan statistical area, which reflects compensation levels for the region. New Jersey also has its own E-Verify participation requirements for certain employers and state contractors. STEM OPT employers are federally required to enroll in E-Verify regardless of state rules, so most established New Jersey financial institutions already meet this requirement as a baseline condition of sponsorship.