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About the Role
This role supports the group's shipping transactions and financing activities in Japan, working with Japanese investors, joint venture partners, banks, and financial institutions. It offers broad exposure to fund matters, joint ventures, equity raising, ship finance, and investor relations, with the opportunity for increased responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Support the structuring, documentation, and closing of funds, joint ventures, equity investments, and ship finance transactions.
- Coordinate with external legal, tax, and audit advisers, and internal teams to ensure timely progress of workstreams.
- Prepare term sheets, transaction summaries, step plans, and closing checklists.
- Track conditions precedent through to completion.
- Help manage capital calls, funds flows, and other closing mechanics.
- Prepare periodic investor reports covering financial position, vessel operations, earnings, distributions, asset valuations, and market developments.
- Support the annual audit process, distribution calculations and payments, and regulatory filings.
- Assist with the day-to-day maintenance of fund entities, including corporate records, bank accounts, and KYC/AML checks.
- Monitor fund compliance with documentation and flag matters requiring investor consent.
- Build and maintain cash flow, distribution, and return models, reconciling forecasts against actual performance.
- Support relationships with Japanese investors, banks, leasing companies, and financial institutions.
- Prepare investor presentations, information materials, and responses to due diligence questions.
- Assist in identifying and approaching investors and joint venture partners.
- Support equity raising and develop fund-related and ship finance opportunities.
- Stay updated on developments in Japanese investment structures, tax, regulation, and the ship finance market, sharing insights with the team.
Requirements
- Three to seven years of relevant experience in Japan, including practical experience in fund matters, joint ventures, equity raising, and ship finance.
- Working knowledge of Japanese investment structures (e.g., LPS, TK, JOL/JOLCO) and related legal, tax, and regulatory considerations.
- Experience reviewing or negotiating transaction documents.
- Experience working with external advisers.
- Strong financial modelling and Excel skills.
- Good working knowledge of PowerPoint.
- Native-level Japanese and business-level English proficiency, with clear written communication skills in both languages.
- Based in, or willing to relocate to, Tokyo, with the right to work in Japan.
- Organized and detail-oriented.
- Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving team.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Ability to take ownership of deliverables.
- Ability to communicate clearly with colleagues in Japan and overseas.
- Ability to explain Japanese practice to international colleagues and group decisions to Japanese counterparties.
- Proactive attitude and willingness to learn.
- Discretion in handling confidential investor and transaction information.
Skills
- Fund matters
- Joint ventures
- Equity raising
- Ship finance
- Transaction execution
- Documentation
- Investor relations
- Financial modelling
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Japanese investment structures
- Legal
- Tax
- Regulatory considerations
- Fund administration
- Investor reporting
- Accounting
- Shipping market analysis
- Tanker market
- Dry bulk market
- Communication
Location
- Japan
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Associate
- 3-7 years
Education Level
- Degree in finance, economics, accounting, or law
- CPA/USCPA
- CFA
- Securities analyst qualification
About the Company
- Union Maritime is seeking an Associate in Japan.