Associate, Project Finance

**Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?**

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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.

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Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

.**About the role**:
MUFG has been consistently positioned as a top-tier global project finance bank. We are the only bank consistently ranked within the top 5 over the last 10 years in Oceania. Project Finance International awarded MUFG: Global Project Finance Bank of The Year 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2022 & 2023.

MUFG’s project finance team provides non-recourse debt and advisory solutions to the banks key clients. We facilitate access to MUFG’s comprehensive suite of finance solutions to address client needs at every state of a project’s life cycle.

The Associate will be responsible for assisting senior Project Finance team members in originating and executing financial advisory or lending mandates in Oceania, with a primary focus on financial modelling.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Ensuring all transactions comply with MUFG’s credit and other policies
- Supervise and/or build and run Excel based financial models to support advisory and lending activities
- Undertake research and analytics to support advisory activities
- Support and undertake due diligence activities
- Develop transaction structures and documentation
- Maintain relationships with clients, other financial institutions, external service providers and other teams within MUFG
- Assist in the preparation of presentations for mandates and to support origination activities
- To positively liaise with the MUFG’s local and international networks including global project finance teams, structured credit, and Sydney Branch
- To manage deal information on various internal systems and associated internal deal processes
- To prepare or contribute to research papers including attending industry seminars and presentations

**What we are looking for**:

- 2 - 3 years’ experience relevant project finance or modelling experience from major domestic/international bank, advisory services firm, or chartered accounting firm.
- Undergraduate Business / Commerce / Economics from a leading university is essential
- Proficiency in the full suite of core Microsoft products and strong financial modelling capabilities
- Ability to build and run Financial Models from scratch
- Possess an understanding of financial structures and debt markets
- The ability to communicate clearly both in writing and verbally
- Has strong interpersonal and presentations skills
- Is a team player, has drive and enthusiasm
- Is a self-starter who applies initiative and is adaptable to change
- Has an analytical mindset and problem solving skills
- Has the ability to work independently and prioritise a number of tasks across various work streams and alongside a number of stakeholders

**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 back to our communities in order to develop shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

MUFG Bank Ltd & MUFG Securities Asia Limited (collectively referred to as “MUFG”) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.