Associate, Blended Finance

Job description / Role

Overall purpose of job:

The Associate role will play a central part in providing relationship management and transaction support to client-facing Relationship Managers on the African and Emerging Middle East desk in Dubai (part of GCIB Growth Markets desk). As a member of the team, the Associate will be responsible for ensuring that MUFG clients receive exceptional service throughout the life of financing transactions, in accord with all relevant internal and regulatory processes, guidelines and standards.

Within the team, the Associate will be primarily dedicated to African coverage (DFIs and Sovereigns) along with supporting Blended Finance business in Africa and Emerging Middle East. Blended Finance external stakeholders will involve borrower, Middle East based sponsors and credit enhancement providers.

No of direct reports

0

Essential functions:

1. Origination & marketing: Provide support to the Relationship Managers to originate all MUFG banking products and services in Africa and expand Blended Finance in Emerging Middle East. Work jointly with the product teams including Global Blended Finance, DCM Loans, FX, Transaction Banking, Derivatives, etc.
2. Manage day-to-day client interactions: Regularly engage with clients at a counterpart level for successful conclusion of transactions and execution of selected deals. Use knowledge gained through direct client contact to contribute to overall development of client strategy. Drive successful onboarding of sponsor client relationships to expand Blended Finance offering. Coordinate and support interactions with risk-mitigation providers for a successful origination of Blended Finance transactions.
3. Marketing support and credit: Relationship management duties in support of senior relationship managers. Independently own the preparation of deal screening proposals, account plans, return calculations, client proposals, call memos and presentations. Contribute towards gathering market intelligence and target client research for the Relationship Managers. Independently prepare credit applications.
4. Execution and negotiation: Take lead in negotiating with internal and external legal teams, borrowers and syndicate members to ensure negotiation and timely execution of the documentation to a consistently high standard, reflecting MUFG's preferred position as much as possible. Proactively engage with internal teams (compliance, Blended Finance structuring desk, legal etc.) to ensure smooth execution.
5. Post-signing administration: Engage with middle and back office/credit control to manage bookings and post signing monitoring with support of dedicated teams in the bank.
6. Provide general support to wider team as may be required: Including follow up with the different departments/divisions within the bank (e.g. compliance, middle and back office planning related tasks, process waivers as appropriate, liaise with other business units).
7. Provide general support to the Team Head, RMs as required from time to time: Including the preparation/update of strategy papers, financial data and planning related activities.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business or Finance.

Work experience

Relevant industry exposure and corporate banking experience of at least 3-5 years is mandatory.

Functional/technical skills and knowledge requirements

• Good experience with traditional corporate and investment banking products, with a focus on syndicated lending, transaction banking, debt capital markets, derivatives, ECAs and project finance.
• Understanding of Blended Finance stakeholders: MDBs, DFIs, ECAs, etc.
• Strong credit risk skills and adequate legal documentation experience.
• A can-do attitude and strong interpersonal skills are absolutely critical.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen, results-oriented.
• Knowledge of current affairs and interest in emerging markets developments.
• Detailed knowledge of specific procedures and a good understanding of the business area.
• Computer literacy, including core Microsoft modules e.g. Excel and PowerPoint.
• Able to communicate effectively with external clients and internal stakeholders.
• Strong preference for Arabic or French language.

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.