Associate, Financial Institutions

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial group in the UK is seeking an Associate to support relationship managers for financial institutions clients. You'll prepare marketing materials, maintain client relationships, and manage administrative tasks while ensuring compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate will have a university degree and excellent communication skills in English, alongside a proactive and results-driven approach. This role offers opportunities to enhance efficiency within client relationship management alongside collaborative working with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent experience.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Proactive, motivated, and results-driven individual.

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing briefing memos and marketing materials.
• Maintain close relationships with clients and internal teams.
• Support relationship managers with client issues and claims.
• Collect and report management information data for FI business.
• Contribute to process improvements within client relationship management.

Skills

Communication skills

Data analysis

Microsoft Office skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Education

University degree in relevant field

Professional qualifications

Job description

This position is to provide support to relationship managers for FI clients in the UK, Israel & International Subsidiaries with the principal focus on large bank groups, specialist lenders and select wealth managers. Banks include Central Banks, Commercial/ Investment banks and Broker-dealers. Specialist lenders will include UK mortgage lenders, credit cards and consumer lenders and auto loan & inventory finance companies. The responsibilities involve, but are not limited to, the following:

Assisting in preparing briefing memos, presentation materials, pitch books, terms sheets to enable effective marketing to the clients as per exisiting rules and regulations. Maintain a close and open relationship with both team and product office, ensuring good (two-way) information flow and access to clients. Optimize marketing effort by proactive collaboration with Product Teams and other stakeholders in order to enhance cross sell opportunities in coordination with and guidance from the relationship managers; Close collaboration with Credit Analysis and FI Credit teams for annual reviews and adhoc transaction based limit requests. Ensure call reports, KYC, credit processing/reviews, and all other administrative tasks are managed properly within the prescribed time frame. Updation of pipeline and verification of revenues and client mapping in systems. Finding and providing solutions to client's issues and claims in coordination with the relevant product teams and RM's. This position also involves management information data collection, analysis and timely reporting to the management related to financial institutions business (FI Business). Assist with review documentation and manage the process (e.g. approval, documentation, signing, drawdowns) within the function ensuring that documents are further actioned as appropriate for bank - legal docs including ISDA/ CSA, MRPA etc. Contribute to the on-going process in improving activities within client relationship management by identifying opportunities to increase efficiency, accuracy, and collaborative working. From time to time, the Associate may be asked by FI Management to work on initiatives relevant to the FI business where appropriate.

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

Banking Business Experience

• FX, Loans, Deposit, Trade Finance, Securitisation etc. operation and RM supporting role.

Securities Business Experience

• DCM, Loans, Rates & Repos, etc.

Functional / Technical Competencies

• Sound understanding in internal banking system and procedures.
• Clear communication skills.
• Good IT knowledge and skill (Microsoft Office).
• Sound Data analysis and presentation paper creation skills.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken.

Education / Qualifications

• University degree, or equivalent experience in area of expertise.
• Professional qualifications welcome.

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.

About Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups. Across the globe, we're 150,000 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.

Financial Institutions Group

Financial Institutions Group is the relationship management/ coverage team for Financial Institutions in EMEA. The team has responsibility to expand business with Financial Institutions by collaborating with various stakeholders from the Bank, MUFG Securities (MUSE) and MUTB (Investor Services, Asset Management & Trust Bank) under the One MUFG approach.