Vice President, Financial Advisory - Project Finance (Fluent Japanese)

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Overview of the Department/Section

Within GCIB (Global Corporate & Investment Banking), ESFO (European Structured Finance Office) offers comprehensive advisory and debt arrangement for the non-recourse and limited recourse financing of long-term, capital intensive projects. Our specialist teams focus on a range of sectors, including power & renewables, infrastructure, natural resources and housing finance.

Within ESFO:

• the Financial Advisory team (“GCIB Financial Advisory”) spans all sectors and aims to structure the most competitive and deliverable funding solution for our client base, evaluating all available funding sources in the market. These funding sources include commercial or multilateral banks, ECAs, institutional investors, private placements or public bond finance or a combination thereof. The team also provides credit ratings advisory services.
• The Energy and Infrastructure teams have responsibility for the delivery and execution of the financing product in their respective sectors.

The JCIB (Japanese Corporate Investment Banking) Financial Advisory team will operate alongside the existing GCIB Financial Advisory team, with the same geographical and sector remit, delivering the advisory product specifically to projects where clients covered by JCIB have a controlling interest.

On projects jointly participated by clients covered by JCIB and GCIB, JCIB Financial Advisory and GCIB Financial Advisory teams will share responsibility.

Main Purpose of the Role 

Playing a key role in further developing, growing and sustaining a market leading financial advisory business services across the Energy and Infrastructure sectors.

Key Responsibilities

Bank

• To lead, and/or provide significant support in most aspects of the execution of advisory mandates, and contribute to advisory mandates, including: negotiation of the mandate letter, development of information memoranda, financial structuring and analysis, negotiations with funders, managing financial aspects of the due diligence process, development of key documentation and managing the overall funding process through to financial close.
• Managing and developing client relationships with key clients and other related parties including lawyers, procuring authorities, banks and other financial institutions.
• Managing and developing relationships with key internal stakeholders (including EBD, SFCO, MUS and SFD).
• Assisting in devising, refining and implementing the financial advisory strategy.
• Work with other MUFG teams to enhance the MUFG offering and client services.
• Ratings Advisory support.
• To play an active role in business development, with a view to growing the advisory pipeline, including: proactively identifying potential advisory opportunities, preparation and presentation of advisory proposals and materials and ongoing ad hoc client marketing.
• Take an active role in the preparation of and participation in all assessments and authorisation activities including assisting in the presentation of the transaction through the various internal approval processes (including: BCRA, Business Screening and KYC).
• Propose appropriate solutions to meet client needs in conjunction, where necessary, with other specialist functions of MUFG in order to deliver a tailored solution to client needs.
• Ensure that business development, structuring and execution is market-leading, sound and appropriate.
• Coordinating with international structured finance teams.
• Prepare and present internal committee presentations/papers.
• In general the role could require substantial overseas travel.

Securities

Through collaboration with MUS employees, facilitate the marketing and origination of transactions with your area of specialism in respect to the MUS product suite.  The non-functional nature of this role means that you will not be able to transact (which means lead any structuring, credit, execution or commitment discussions) on behalf of any MUS legal entity; though through your role in Project Finance you will be able to share data and information, attend both internal and external meetings, offering up views and opinions.  All recommendations and final decisions around structure, credit, pricing, execution and commitment must be made by a MUS employee or a functional dual-hat employee.

Work Experience

• Experience from a structured finance advisory/product role preferred.
• Experience gained from within a project finance bank, boutique or DCM team preferred.
• Previous experience working in structured finance essential, some M&A and rating experience beneficial.
• Pan EMEA experience of different financing documentation beneficial.

Skills and Experience

Functional / Technical Competencies:

• Structured Finance understanding a requirement.
• Ability to lead on all aspects as part of a wider advisory mandate with senior support on more complex aspects.
• Familiar with different types of financing documentation e.g. CTAs.
• Knowledge of credit, risk management, market and legal aspects of structured finance.
• Multiproduct experiences: bank, public and private DCM.
• Desirable to have a level of project finance modelling understanding.
• Analytical skills including the ability to interrogate financial models.
• Clear communication skills.
• Sound IT knowledge and skills.
• Quantitative / numerical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Education / Qualifications:

• Degree Level and/or relevant industry expertise

Language Skills:

• Fluent Japanese

Personal Requirements

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.

• A proactive, motivated approach.
• Results driven, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• The ability to operate with urgency and dynamically prioritise work accordingly.
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• A structured and logical approach to work and ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• Good problem solving skills.
• A creative and innovative approach to work.
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
• Team player.

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.