Associate, Business Support - Blended and Climate Finance

MUFG Americas; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MUFG is seeking a dedicated professional to join the Blended & Climate Finance team. This role includes managing client onboarding and operational activities, contributing to climate finance initiatives while ensuring compliance with GCF policies. Ideal candidates will have strong corporate banking knowledge and experience overseeing complex processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in client onboarding or operational management.
• Strong understanding of Corporate Banking products.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate client onboarding processes and collaborate with operational teams.
• Prepare internal and regulatory reports in a timely manner.
• Support relationship management with the Green Climate Fund.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Time Management

Tools

Microsoft Office

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 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.

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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As part of MUFG’s Blended & Climate Finance team, this role will be responsible for business support of the bank’s blended finance business with a focus on ensuring the smooth delivery of the climate finance initiatives being developed. The role will also cover the operational activities connected with MUFG’s role as an Accredited Entity of the Green Climate Fund (“GCF”).

This critical role requires balancing between: high-level strategic work, client onboarding, new product approvals, pipeline maintenance, internal stakeholder management and day-to-day program management.

The role contributes to achieving MUFG’s strategic objectives and increasing private capital mobilization for emerging markets and developing economies; using a variety of financial instruments including equity, guarantees, technical assistance and programmatic financing.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Onboarding and Due Diligence

• Dedicated point of contact for end to end onboarding coordination ; acting as the liaison with KYC, Legal, Credit and operational teams
• Management of client POA, IDs, signature mandates, NDAs, and registration of original documents in the relevant internal file directories
• Complete due diligence and client onboarding for the team by leveraging external sources of information and requesting input, where necessary, from the client

Reporting

• As well as pipeline reporting, prepare any internal or regulatory reporting required in a timely manner.
• Act as the liaison to Tokyo for any reporting requirements associated to the blended and climate finance team. This includes preparing regular and ad hoc reporting and presentations.
• Ensure call memos/meeting minutes are filed into folders for safe keeping.

MUFG’s role as GCF’s (Green Climate Fund) Accredited Entity (“AE”)

• Support on country ownership requirements for new and existing GCF proposals, including relationship with NDA’s and key stakeholders
• Engage and maintain close relationship with the operational divisions of the GCF to ensure adherence of proposals with GCF policies, procedures and operations
• Provide operational support in pipeline development, proposal development and review, and monitoring of all MUFG related GCF projects
• Internal liaison with relevant MUFG teams regarding AE related operational queries
• Support in the review of submitted documentation from the Projects/Programmes throughout project lifecycle (e.g APR)

Climate Focused Private Debt Fund Implementation:

• Support with the maintenance of a pipeline of eligible financing transactions by maintaining proactive engagement with the origination team
• Support the negotiation of legal documentation with external stakeholders, including Lending and Fund related documentation
• Assist with preparation of presentation materials; desktop analysis of potential investors; and monitoring of investor engagement

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 5 years of full-time work experience in client onboarding, operational, or portfolio management function
• Strong understanding of Corporate Banking bank products, such as syndicated loans, structured products, FX and cash management

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Functional / Technical Competencies:

• Ability to work independently with a proactive approach in resolving queries and a willingness to learn;
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables and meet tight deadlines;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English are essential for this position; knowledge French and/or Spanish language an advantage;

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
• Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving skills
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment
• Strong numerical skills
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills

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.