About the Role
Playing a key role in further developing, growing and sustaining a market-leading franchise with a particular focus on capital structuring and rating advisory services across the Energy, Infrastructure, Housing Finance, and Structured Corporate space.
Responsibilities
- Lead and/or provide significant support in most aspects of the execution of structuring and rating mandates and contribute to advisory mandates.
- Manage the negotiation of the mandate letter, development of information memoranda, financial structuring and analysis, negotiations with funders, managing financial aspects of the due diligence process, managing the rating process, development of key documentation, and managing the overall funding process through to financial close.
- Manage and develop client relationships with key sponsors and other related parties including lawyers, banks, and other financial institutions.
- Manage and develop relationships with key internal stakeholders.
- Assist in devising, refining, and implementing the capital structuring and rating advisory strategy.
- Develop and train others in rating methodology, processes, and issues.
- Work with other MUFG teams from a capital structuring and rating perspective to enhance the MUFG offering and client services.
- Play an active role in business development, particularly focused on rating advisory aspects, to grow the pipeline.
- Proactively identify potential opportunities, prepare and present proposals and materials, and conduct 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 internal approval processes.
- Propose appropriate solutions to meet client needs in conjunction with other specialist functions of MUFG to deliver tailored solutions.
- Ensure that business development, structuring, and execution are market-leading, sound, and appropriate.
- Substantial overseas travel may be required.
Requirements
- Experience from a Structuring/Project Finance/M&A/Fund role preferred.
- Experience from a rating advisory role preferred but not essential.
- Recent experience of rating methodologies across the Big-3, DBRS, and KBRA.
- Some previous experience working in structured finance and/or capital markets preferred but not essential.
Skills
- Excellent understanding of rating methodologies and analysis.
- Project Finance and/or Structured Finance understanding is a requirement.
- Corporate rating experience/understanding preferred but not essential.
- Ability to lead on all rating aspects as part of a wider structuring mandate.
- Knowledge of credit, risk management, market, and legal aspects of project finance.
- Project finance modelling experience is desirable.
- Analytical skills including the ability to run simple financial models.
- Clear communication skills.
- Sound IT knowledge and skills.
- Quantitative / numerical skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Degree Level and/or relevant industry expertise.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.
- A proactive, motivated approach.
- Ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly.
- Strong decision making skills, with the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
- A structured and logical approach to work.
- Strong problem solving skills.
- A creative and innovative approach to work.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
- Strong numerical skills.
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
Work Type
- Flexible working requests may be considered in line with organisational requirements.
Education Level
- Degree Level and/or relevant industry expertise
About the Company
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups.
- Across the globe, MUFG has 150,000 colleagues striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community served.
- MUFG stands for its values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
- MUFG's vision is to be the world’s most trusted financial group.
- It is part of MUFG's 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 employees to own their careers.
- Structured Finance Office for EMEA (ESFO) offers comprehensive advisory, capital structuring, and debt arrangement services for the financing of the development or acquisition of capital-intensive assets, on a non-recourse or limited recourse basis.
- ESFO specialist teams focus on a range of sectors, including Energy, Infrastructure, Housing Finance, and Structured Corporates.
- Within ESFO, the Institutional Capital & Rating Advisory team spans all sectors and aims to structure the most competitive and deliverable funding solution for clients by evaluating all available funding sources in the market.
- These funding sources include commercial or multilateral banks, institutional investors, private placements, or public bond finance, or a combination thereof.
- The team also provides credit ratings advisory services.
Equal Opportunity
- MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected, and their opinions count.
- MUFG supports the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and opposes 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.
- Recruitment decisions are made in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with the commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and legal obligations.
