Associate, Leveraged and Acquisition Finance
5 months ago
**Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?**
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 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.
**About the role**:
In your role as Associate, you will support the Leveraged and Acquisition Finance Portfolio team (LAFP) to support a growing pipeline of M & A activity across Private Equity Sponsor and Corporate clients, across APAC.
The role will sit within the Front Office Credit & Portfolio function (C & P) of the Global Corporate & Investment Banking (GCIB) business in Oceania. The roles support GCIB and LAF in 2 key functional areas
- LAF Portfolio, APAC - driving regional oversight of the LBO book, ensuring quality analysis and monitoring of credits, with consistent and timely reporting across APAC;
- GCIB C & P, Australia - the management of a portfolio of local LBO deals and Diversified Industries (DI) customers, covering sectors such as Healthcare, Telco & Tech, Consumer, Food Beverage & Agriculture etc.
The role will support the continued “build out” of a rapidly growing APAC LAF franchise as well as our local GCIB business. The role works with Originators, Relationship Managers, Product Partners and our Credit team.
**What you’ll be doing**:
**APAC LAF Portfolio**: Support LAFP teams’ key focus areas below:
- Establish necessary framework, template/s, service standards, heatmap classifications with input from key stakeholders across LAF, ICD and Coverage
- Continue to drive accuracy, completeness, consistency of information over time, incorporating feedback from stakeholders
- Produce monthly/quarterly reports at the individual borrower level and at the APAC level including key information such as Credit Exposures, Borrower Ratings, Returns, Leverage Levels across Countries, Sectors and Sponsors
- Help identify, monitor and manage concerns as they arise, including seeking advice and/or action from Coverage, LAF, ICD, Sponsor coverage, etc
- Present / guide management on regional trends and lead product improvement projects for the region including engagement with HO and other regions
**Credit & Portfolio**: Support the management of a portfolio of LBO deals / DI customers with a focus on credit quality monitoring and the achievement of the Bank’s risk / return targets through:
- Conducting annual credit reviews and internal rating reviews
- Covenant compliance monitoring
- Supporting refinancing and other revenue initiatives across the portfolio
- Coordinating within the MUFG network
- Client interactions on tasks required for on-boarding and account management
- Any other required tasks in accordance with the Bank’s policies and procedures and required to support the broader DI business
- MUFG standards need to be maintained and supported at times
**What we are looking for**:
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in corporate and institutional lending / debt advisory at a major bank or chartered accounting firm
- Degree qualified - undergraduate or postgraduate in Accounting, Business, Commerce, Law, Engineering or similar degrees
- Outstanding quantitative and qualitative analytical skills; strong knowledge of finance and accounting
- Previous banking / credit / advisory experience desirable, especially in the corporate / leveraged finance space
- Strong financial analysis, modelling and general excel skills essential and ideally some loan documentation experience
- Possess an understanding of financial and economic markets in general
- Highly motivated with demonstrated ability to managing conflicting priorities and requests
- Willing to learn about all investment and institutional banking products
- Ability to take initiative and function well within a team
- Strong written and oral communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills with ability to create and maintain relationships at all levels of the organization
- Must maintain high standards of professional and ethical conduct
- Experience with stakeholder management and collaboration with other departments
- MS office experience with key capabilities in Excel, Word and Powerpoint
**Our culture**:
MUFG fosters a highly professional, supportive work environment that enables our employees to help maximize our customers' prosperity. We focus on building long-term customer relationships and giving
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