Associate, Blended Finance, GCIB

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Dubai seeks an experienced Associate to provide critical support in relationship management and transaction execution for clients in Africa and the Emerging Middle East. This role involves direct client interaction, preparation of credit applications, and collaboration with various internal teams to ensure seamless operations. The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree in Finance and have at least 3-5 years in corporate banking, alongside strong interpersonal and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Relevant industry exposure in corporate banking of at least 3-5 years.
• Strong credit risk skills and legal documentation experience.
• Good experience with traditional corporate and investment banking products.

Responsibilities

• Provide relationship management support to client-facing Relationship Managers.
• Engage with clients for successful transaction conclusions.
• Independently prepare credit applications and proposals.

Skills

Financial Services

Accounting

Analysis Skills

Investment Banking

Microsoft Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics / Business / Finance

Job description

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) one of the worlds leading financial groups. Across the globe were 150000 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 worlds most trusted financial group its 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.

Overview

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.

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 on-boarding 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 / external legal teams borrowers and syndicate members to ensure negotiation and timely execution of the documentation to a consistently high standard reflecting MUFGs 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

Bachelors degree in Economics / Business / 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; DFI;s 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 / PowerPoint
• Able to communicate effectively with external clients and internal stakeholders

Strong preference for Arabic / 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.

Required Experience

IC

Key Skills

Financial Services,Financial Concepts,Accounting,Corporate Finance,Analysis Skills,Securities Law,Investment Banking,Microsoft Excel,Private equity,Financial Analysis,Financial Modeling,Financial Planning

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1