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Vice President, Leveraged Finance
London, London
MUFG
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**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.
**OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION**
MUFG's Leveraged Finance group provides product expertise in the origination, structuring and execution of LBOs for private equity sponsors.
The Leveraged Finance group also works with relevant coverage and product functions within the bank to assist in executing our broader Financial Institutions strategy to maximise cross-sell amongst private equity sponsor clients and their portfolio companies.
Leveraged Finance works collaboratively with MUFG's Global Sponsor Coverage teams, Mid Market Direct Lending team and the Leveraged Capital Markets team to deliver financing solutions and to maximise revenue opportunities in EMEA.
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
+ Undertake analysis and manage processes to successfully structure and execute leveraged finance transactions, defined as large cap underwritten LBO financings and direct lending transactions.
+ Assist in the generation of deal flow in sponsor-driven leveraged finance transactions consistent with our targeted sponsor framework, target size range and specific geographic focus.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Prepare and present in coordination with other deal team members (i) client marketing materials (presentations, pitch books etc.) and (ii) the relevant internal approval documents, including industry and company analysis, due diligence, financial analysis, financial modelling, sensitivity scenarios, risks and mitigants and return calculation.
+ Execute deals ensuring the highest quality of transaction delivery, risk management and client satisfaction.
+ Negotiate terms and documentation for leveraged finance transactions in collaboration with senior deal team members, Leveraged Finance Transaction Execution function and, where relevant, Leveraged Capital Markets.
+ Assist in driving profitable dealflow from the private equity community in EMEA from across our leveraged finance product range, specifically execute underwritten financings and direct lending transactions.
+ Retain ongoing responsibility for risk management of onboarded assets, in partnership with the Portfolio Management team, and drive incremental revenue and cross selling opportunities for MUFG.
+ Work closely with internal stakeholders, notably Credit, Sponsor Coverage, Leveraged Capital Markets, Financial Institutions Coverage, Corporate Coverage, Growth & Mid Market Tech, Compliance and Audit to promote the strategic mission of Leveraged Finance and to ensure the continued good standing of the team within the bank.
+ Support Leveraged Finance team leadership to manage and develop more junior team members.
+ Provide strategic support to Leveraged Finance team leadership as required.
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
+ At least six years of experience in transacting European private equity sponsor-backed leveraged finance transactions in lead roles.
+ Experience of working within a banking environment or a debt fund environment.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
+ Detailed understanding and expertise in sub-investment grade credit analysis, cash flow modelling and leveraged documentary negotiation.
+ Sound understanding of banking products (loans, bonds, private placement, ABL lines) as well as DCM, M&A market and its dynamics
+ Advanced understanding of deal structuring principles
+ Demonstrable negotiation skills with internal partners and external counterparties
+ Corporate finance principles/accounting knowledge
+ Can demonstrate existing relationships with capital markets and equity investment professionals within the private equity industry.
+ Excellent presentation and negotiation skills.
+ Experience of large cap lead underwriting LBO transactions desirable.
**PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS**
+ A good team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
+ Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
+ Demonstrates a structured, proactive, motivated and logical approach to work
+ Ability to operate with urgency, manage large workloads, multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines when needed
+ Strong decision-making skills, shows the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
+ Strong problem-solving and numerical skills
+ Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
+ A calm approach, with the ability to perform well and prioritise work in a pressurised environment
+ Excellent Microsoft Office skills
+ Proficiency in English, other languages desirable
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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
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.
**OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION**
MUFG's Leveraged Finance group provides product expertise in the origination, structuring and execution of LBOs for private equity sponsors.
The Leveraged Finance group also works with relevant coverage and product functions within the bank to assist in executing our broader Financial Institutions strategy to maximise cross-sell amongst private equity sponsor clients and their portfolio companies.
Leveraged Finance works collaboratively with MUFG's Global Sponsor Coverage teams, Mid Market Direct Lending team and the Leveraged Capital Markets team to deliver financing solutions and to maximise revenue opportunities in EMEA.
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
+ Undertake analysis and manage processes to successfully structure and execute leveraged finance transactions, defined as large cap underwritten LBO financings and direct lending transactions.
+ Assist in the generation of deal flow in sponsor-driven leveraged finance transactions consistent with our targeted sponsor framework, target size range and specific geographic focus.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Prepare and present in coordination with other deal team members (i) client marketing materials (presentations, pitch books etc.) and (ii) the relevant internal approval documents, including industry and company analysis, due diligence, financial analysis, financial modelling, sensitivity scenarios, risks and mitigants and return calculation.
+ Execute deals ensuring the highest quality of transaction delivery, risk management and client satisfaction.
+ Negotiate terms and documentation for leveraged finance transactions in collaboration with senior deal team members, Leveraged Finance Transaction Execution function and, where relevant, Leveraged Capital Markets.
+ Assist in driving profitable dealflow from the private equity community in EMEA from across our leveraged finance product range, specifically execute underwritten financings and direct lending transactions.
+ Retain ongoing responsibility for risk management of onboarded assets, in partnership with the Portfolio Management team, and drive incremental revenue and cross selling opportunities for MUFG.
+ Work closely with internal stakeholders, notably Credit, Sponsor Coverage, Leveraged Capital Markets, Financial Institutions Coverage, Corporate Coverage, Growth & Mid Market Tech, Compliance and Audit to promote the strategic mission of Leveraged Finance and to ensure the continued good standing of the team within the bank.
+ Support Leveraged Finance team leadership to manage and develop more junior team members.
+ Provide strategic support to Leveraged Finance team leadership as required.
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
+ At least six years of experience in transacting European private equity sponsor-backed leveraged finance transactions in lead roles.
+ Experience of working within a banking environment or a debt fund environment.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
+ Detailed understanding and expertise in sub-investment grade credit analysis, cash flow modelling and leveraged documentary negotiation.
+ Sound understanding of banking products (loans, bonds, private placement, ABL lines) as well as DCM, M&A market and its dynamics
+ Advanced understanding of deal structuring principles
+ Demonstrable negotiation skills with internal partners and external counterparties
+ Corporate finance principles/accounting knowledge
+ Can demonstrate existing relationships with capital markets and equity investment professionals within the private equity industry.
+ Excellent presentation and negotiation skills.
+ Experience of large cap lead underwriting LBO transactions desirable.
**PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS**
+ A good team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
+ Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
+ Demonstrates a structured, proactive, motivated and logical approach to work
+ Ability to operate with urgency, manage large workloads, multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines when needed
+ Strong decision-making skills, shows the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
+ Strong problem-solving and numerical skills
+ Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
+ A calm approach, with the ability to perform well and prioritise work in a pressurised environment
+ Excellent Microsoft Office skills
+ Proficiency in English, other languages desirable
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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
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Business Analytics - Vice President
London, London
Neuberger Berman
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We are seeking to hire within the EMEALA Business Analytics Team, supporting Client Coverage teams and providing business management support to EMEALA Client Coverage Leadership.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable building relationships with stakeholders across multiple functions; have experience in data and analytics, and be comfortable delivering presentations and insights to Management both proactively and in accordance with periodic deliverables. This position provides an opportunity for a proactive and analytical individual to work closely with key stakeholders to define and track success within the Client Coverage organization.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Support Client Coverage Leadership in defining success for their respective teams, and in implementing their short, medium and long term priorities.
+ Provide timely, high-quality, periodic and ad-hoc reporting primarily for EMEALA & multi-regional intermediary client coverage channels; partner with support groups to lead efforts to increasingly deliver insights through dynamic dashboards rather than static reports.
+ Produce periodic and ad-hoc presentations for delivery by Client Coverage Leadership at sales onsites, town halls and other forums - regularly hosting periodic sales meetings.
+ Partner with Business Enablement / Operations, Finance, Client Service Management, Marketing, Product Development, and other functions to ensure the effective operation of the Distribution function within NB.
+ Identify ways to enhance processes and achieve efficiencies primarily through standardization and automation.
+ Liaise with Finance to ensure accurate sales attribution is captured for firm reporting
**Requirements:**
+ Ability to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders and delegates across the organization.
+ Attention to detail; ability to work to competing deadlines; and a solutions-focused approach. The ideal candidate will lead the team in producing key management reports that are presented to regional and group leadership.
+ Strong organizational, communication and time management skills are essential.
+ Strong analytical and technical skills; advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint knowledge is required; experience with Alteryx, Tableau, SQL or Python will be advantageous.
+ Team player with strong work ethic and positive attitude.
+ Ability to work independently and demonstrate critical thinking, strong business acumen.
_Neuberger Berman is an equal opportunity employer. The Firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment because of race, creed, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship status or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact_ _._
_Learn about the Applicant Privacy Notice ( ._
Founded in 1939, Neuberger Berman is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. From offices in 39 cities worldwide, the firm manages $515 billion in client assets (as of March 31, 2025) across a range of strategies-including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity and hedge funds-on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally.
Tenured, stable and long-term in focus, the firm has built a diverse team-including 760-plus investment professionals and more than 2,800 employees in total-united in their commitment to delivering client outcomes and investment excellence. It is our people who define our culture and have enabled us to be recognized by _Pensions & Investments_ as the first or second "Best Place to Work in Money Management" for last eight consecutive years (firms with 1,000+ employees).
Neuberger Berman believes strongly that all employees are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity, and to work in a professional and safe environment. These values are the cornerstone of our firm. We prohibit any form of harassment, whether mental, verbal or physical. We do not tolerate the support of terrorist groups, acts of terrorism, or threats of violence. All who wish to be employed by the firm are expected to uphold these principles.
For important disclosures:
The ideal candidate will be comfortable building relationships with stakeholders across multiple functions; have experience in data and analytics, and be comfortable delivering presentations and insights to Management both proactively and in accordance with periodic deliverables. This position provides an opportunity for a proactive and analytical individual to work closely with key stakeholders to define and track success within the Client Coverage organization.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Support Client Coverage Leadership in defining success for their respective teams, and in implementing their short, medium and long term priorities.
+ Provide timely, high-quality, periodic and ad-hoc reporting primarily for EMEALA & multi-regional intermediary client coverage channels; partner with support groups to lead efforts to increasingly deliver insights through dynamic dashboards rather than static reports.
+ Produce periodic and ad-hoc presentations for delivery by Client Coverage Leadership at sales onsites, town halls and other forums - regularly hosting periodic sales meetings.
+ Partner with Business Enablement / Operations, Finance, Client Service Management, Marketing, Product Development, and other functions to ensure the effective operation of the Distribution function within NB.
+ Identify ways to enhance processes and achieve efficiencies primarily through standardization and automation.
+ Liaise with Finance to ensure accurate sales attribution is captured for firm reporting
**Requirements:**
+ Ability to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders and delegates across the organization.
+ Attention to detail; ability to work to competing deadlines; and a solutions-focused approach. The ideal candidate will lead the team in producing key management reports that are presented to regional and group leadership.
+ Strong organizational, communication and time management skills are essential.
+ Strong analytical and technical skills; advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint knowledge is required; experience with Alteryx, Tableau, SQL or Python will be advantageous.
+ Team player with strong work ethic and positive attitude.
+ Ability to work independently and demonstrate critical thinking, strong business acumen.
_Neuberger Berman is an equal opportunity employer. The Firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment because of race, creed, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship status or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact_ _._
_Learn about the Applicant Privacy Notice ( ._
Founded in 1939, Neuberger Berman is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. From offices in 39 cities worldwide, the firm manages $515 billion in client assets (as of March 31, 2025) across a range of strategies-including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity and hedge funds-on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally.
Tenured, stable and long-term in focus, the firm has built a diverse team-including 760-plus investment professionals and more than 2,800 employees in total-united in their commitment to delivering client outcomes and investment excellence. It is our people who define our culture and have enabled us to be recognized by _Pensions & Investments_ as the first or second "Best Place to Work in Money Management" for last eight consecutive years (firms with 1,000+ employees).
Neuberger Berman believes strongly that all employees are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity, and to work in a professional and safe environment. These values are the cornerstone of our firm. We prohibit any form of harassment, whether mental, verbal or physical. We do not tolerate the support of terrorist groups, acts of terrorism, or threats of violence. All who wish to be employed by the firm are expected to uphold these principles.
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Vice President, Data Scientist
Greater London, London
Mastercard
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**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Vice President, Data Scientist
Overview
The Security Solutions Data Science team's purpose is to use AI to secure the legitimate movement of money for everyone. The models generated are production ready and created to back specific products in Mastercard's authentication, authorization networks and A2A payment networks. The Data Science team is also responsible for developing automated processes for creating models covering all modeling steps, from data extraction up to delivery. In addition, the processes must be designed to scale, to be repeatable, resilient, and industrialized.
You will be joining a team of Data Scientists and engineers working on innovative AI and ML models solving real world business problems. Senior leaders in our team epitomize enterprising autonomy, endless curiosity and excellence through improvisation. We are pursuing a highly motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills to take on the challenge of structuring and engineering data and cutting-edge AI model build and evaluation processes.
Role
As a VP of Data Scientist, you will:
- Be the most senior practitioner and lead multiple teams of data scientists delivering production quality models that run in real time to screen transaction networks.
o Work closely with the business owners to understand business requirements, performance metrics regarding data quality and model performance of customer-facing products
o Oversee and hold accountable your team's work with multiple disparate sources of data, storage systems, and build processes and pipelines to provide cohesive datasets for analysis and modeling
o Oversee and hold accountable your team's creation and maintenance of pipelines for model building and model performance evaluation
- Overall responsibility to ensure teams are developing, testing, and evaluating modern machine learning and AI models for multiple products
- Interface with platform production teams to support implementation of models
- Oversee and hold accountable your team's to evaluate production models based on business metrics to drive continuous improvement
- Build and maintain relationships across the organization to understand product needs and influence platform engineering roadmaps to support latest model designs.
All About You
Essential Skills:
- Extensive data science experience and significant leadership roles
- Demonstrated full lifecycle model development, deployment and evaluation for complex problems
- Experience with SQL language and the following technologies: PySpark, Hadoop, Databricks
- Good knowledge of Linux / Bash environment
- Python
- XGBoost
- Good communication skills
- Highly skilled problem solver
- Exhibits a high degree of initiative
- At least an undergraduate degree in CS, or a STEM related field
- Prior experience in payment fraud detection or AML modeling
Nice to have:
- PhD/Master's in CS, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI or a related STEM field
- Experience in with data engineering and model building in PySpark using Spark ML on petabyte scale data
- Understands and implements methods to evaluate own work and others for bias, inaccuracy, and error
- Loves working with error-prone, messy, disparate, unstructured data
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Vice President, Data Scientist
Overview
The Security Solutions Data Science team's purpose is to use AI to secure the legitimate movement of money for everyone. The models generated are production ready and created to back specific products in Mastercard's authentication, authorization networks and A2A payment networks. The Data Science team is also responsible for developing automated processes for creating models covering all modeling steps, from data extraction up to delivery. In addition, the processes must be designed to scale, to be repeatable, resilient, and industrialized.
You will be joining a team of Data Scientists and engineers working on innovative AI and ML models solving real world business problems. Senior leaders in our team epitomize enterprising autonomy, endless curiosity and excellence through improvisation. We are pursuing a highly motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills to take on the challenge of structuring and engineering data and cutting-edge AI model build and evaluation processes.
Role
As a VP of Data Scientist, you will:
- Be the most senior practitioner and lead multiple teams of data scientists delivering production quality models that run in real time to screen transaction networks.
o Work closely with the business owners to understand business requirements, performance metrics regarding data quality and model performance of customer-facing products
o Oversee and hold accountable your team's work with multiple disparate sources of data, storage systems, and build processes and pipelines to provide cohesive datasets for analysis and modeling
o Oversee and hold accountable your team's creation and maintenance of pipelines for model building and model performance evaluation
- Overall responsibility to ensure teams are developing, testing, and evaluating modern machine learning and AI models for multiple products
- Interface with platform production teams to support implementation of models
- Oversee and hold accountable your team's to evaluate production models based on business metrics to drive continuous improvement
- Build and maintain relationships across the organization to understand product needs and influence platform engineering roadmaps to support latest model designs.
All About You
Essential Skills:
- Extensive data science experience and significant leadership roles
- Demonstrated full lifecycle model development, deployment and evaluation for complex problems
- Experience with SQL language and the following technologies: PySpark, Hadoop, Databricks
- Good knowledge of Linux / Bash environment
- Python
- XGBoost
- Good communication skills
- Highly skilled problem solver
- Exhibits a high degree of initiative
- At least an undergraduate degree in CS, or a STEM related field
- Prior experience in payment fraud detection or AML modeling
Nice to have:
- PhD/Master's in CS, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI or a related STEM field
- Experience in with data engineering and model building in PySpark using Spark ML on petabyte scale data
- Understands and implements methods to evaluate own work and others for bias, inaccuracy, and error
- Loves working with error-prone, messy, disparate, unstructured data
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
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Company Secretary - Vice President
Greater London, London
Mastercard
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**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Company Secretary - Vice President
Overview
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we help build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships, and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses, and governments realize their greatest potential.
Leveraging Mastercard's global payments network, our account-to-account business provides domestic and cross-border solutions to enable a frictionless future of payments. We help our customers leverage rich messaging functionality and applications to capture business and consumer payment flows both domestically and cross-border; offer solutions to connect, enable, and safeguard the Open Banking ecosystem, and protect banks and their customers from financial crime. All this is supported by account-based data insights and consulting to help our clients optimise their payment strategies across the world.
Additionally, Vocalink Limited, our UK business, runs the critical national infrastructures (CNI) that power the UK's real-time and file-based payments and Direct Debit systems, as well as the country's network of ATMs. Globally, our real-time payments infrastructure fuels the digital agenda and payments innovation in Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Peru and the United States.
The role will primarily be as the Company Secretary to Vocalink Limited, a provider of (CNI), regulated by the Bank of England and have overall responsibility for the Vocalink Group entities. In addition, the role will provide advice and support to the company secretary functions for several of Mastercard's directly regulated entities. These include, but are not limited to, the Mastercard Payment Services (MPS) entities, the Mastercard Open Banking Services (MCOBS) entities and the Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) entities (collectively, the "DRE Businesses").
This newly created role offers a unique and exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to shape and define the position from the ground up. The role will be to work with a team of corporate governance professionals, with extensive experience in designing, maintaining and operating Board and corporate governance structures in some of Mastercard's most regulated subsidiaries.
Role
We are searching for a Company Secretary/Corporate Governance Professional to lead the provision of company secretarial services to the Vocalink business and advise the DRE Businesses. This person will lead a team of two Assistant Company Secretaries who oversee the Corporate Secretary function for Vocalink and also have a dual reporting line into them from the other Company Secretaries of the DRE Businesses. This person will report to the Assistant General Counsel for Real Time Payments and dual report to the Deputy Corporate Secretary for the overall Mastercard Group within the Global Legal Entity Management Team ("MC GLE Team").
Role Accountabilities:
- Company Secretarial support for the Vocalink entities.
- Lead and manage a team of company secretaries/corporate governance professionals to ensure effective governance across Vocalink.
- Statutory & Regulatory corporate governance compliance for Vocalink and advise the DRE businesses.
- Governance Framework and best practices for Vocalink and the DRE Businesses
Key Activities:
- Team Management: Lead a team of corporate governance professionals to ensure effective governance practices across Vocalink and advise and offer support via a dual reporting line from the other Company Secretaries of the DRE Businesses.
- Collaboration: Work with the Global Legal Entity Management Team to implement best practices for Mastercard's regulated entities.
- Policy Development: Develop and standardize governance policies and procedures across Vocalink and all DRE Businesses.
- Resource Optimization: Ensure efficient use of resources within the governance team and leverage synergies across entities.
- Mentoring: Provide advice, mentoring, and development opportunities for all the company secretariat teams.
- Board Support: Ensure ongoing Company Secretarial support for the Vocalink Limited Board, including planning, agenda setting, and follow-up actions.
- Board Interaction: Encourage effective interaction between each Board and its Accountable Executives across Vocalink and the DRE Businesses.
- Compliance Monitoring: Monitor Vocalink compliance with governance, legal, and regulatory requirements, and advise the DRE Businesses where required.
- Director Management: Overall responsibility for Vocalink Director appointments, inductions, resignations, training, and applicable regulatory applications.
- Board Reviews: Coordinate External Board Effectiveness Reviews and deliver action plans for the Vocalink Limited Board.
- Governance Documents: Oversee annual Board and Committee Schedule of Matters, Terms of Reference, and key governance documents for the Vocalink Limited Board and its Committees.
- Statutory Disclosures: Overall responsibility for statutory disclosures, including Annual Report & Accounts and Modern Slavery Statement for the Vocalink entities.
- Legal Entity Management: Overall responsibility for statutory filings and maintenance of statutory registers and records for the Vocalink entities.
- Team Development and Thought Leadership: Develop the capabilities of the Vocalink Company Secretarial Team to ensure quality support and growth opportunities and act as a mentor and advisor to the company secretaries of the DRE Businesses.
- Relationship Building: Foster relationships with MC GLE Team, Company Secretarial teams, assigned attorneys, and related functions within the Mastercard Group.
- Reporting: Provide regular updates to Mastercard group executives on corporate governance in the DRE Businesses.
All About You
The successful candidate will possess the following experience:
- Proven experience working in a senior company secretary / corporate governance professional role in listed entities and/or entities facing significant direct regulation by e.g. financial regulators or central banks.
- Experience working in political environments, building strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, corporate executives and other functions necessary for the performance of the role.
- Ability to influence, anticipate and proactively address issues that may arise.
- Highly organized and detailed oriented: proficient in managing competing priorities and multi-tasking in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to build relationships and interact effectively with individuals at all levels.
- Strategic thinking and thought leadership; ability to provide strategic advice and support to senior leaders, ensuring alignment with team and organizational goals.
- Collaborative leadership style: ability to foster collaboration and resolve conflicts within the corporate governance structure of the DRE Businesses as well as other parts of the global Mastercard organization.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Company Secretary - Vice President
Overview
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we help build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships, and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses, and governments realize their greatest potential.
Leveraging Mastercard's global payments network, our account-to-account business provides domestic and cross-border solutions to enable a frictionless future of payments. We help our customers leverage rich messaging functionality and applications to capture business and consumer payment flows both domestically and cross-border; offer solutions to connect, enable, and safeguard the Open Banking ecosystem, and protect banks and their customers from financial crime. All this is supported by account-based data insights and consulting to help our clients optimise their payment strategies across the world.
Additionally, Vocalink Limited, our UK business, runs the critical national infrastructures (CNI) that power the UK's real-time and file-based payments and Direct Debit systems, as well as the country's network of ATMs. Globally, our real-time payments infrastructure fuels the digital agenda and payments innovation in Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Peru and the United States.
The role will primarily be as the Company Secretary to Vocalink Limited, a provider of (CNI), regulated by the Bank of England and have overall responsibility for the Vocalink Group entities. In addition, the role will provide advice and support to the company secretary functions for several of Mastercard's directly regulated entities. These include, but are not limited to, the Mastercard Payment Services (MPS) entities, the Mastercard Open Banking Services (MCOBS) entities and the Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) entities (collectively, the "DRE Businesses").
This newly created role offers a unique and exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to shape and define the position from the ground up. The role will be to work with a team of corporate governance professionals, with extensive experience in designing, maintaining and operating Board and corporate governance structures in some of Mastercard's most regulated subsidiaries.
Role
We are searching for a Company Secretary/Corporate Governance Professional to lead the provision of company secretarial services to the Vocalink business and advise the DRE Businesses. This person will lead a team of two Assistant Company Secretaries who oversee the Corporate Secretary function for Vocalink and also have a dual reporting line into them from the other Company Secretaries of the DRE Businesses. This person will report to the Assistant General Counsel for Real Time Payments and dual report to the Deputy Corporate Secretary for the overall Mastercard Group within the Global Legal Entity Management Team ("MC GLE Team").
Role Accountabilities:
- Company Secretarial support for the Vocalink entities.
- Lead and manage a team of company secretaries/corporate governance professionals to ensure effective governance across Vocalink.
- Statutory & Regulatory corporate governance compliance for Vocalink and advise the DRE businesses.
- Governance Framework and best practices for Vocalink and the DRE Businesses
Key Activities:
- Team Management: Lead a team of corporate governance professionals to ensure effective governance practices across Vocalink and advise and offer support via a dual reporting line from the other Company Secretaries of the DRE Businesses.
- Collaboration: Work with the Global Legal Entity Management Team to implement best practices for Mastercard's regulated entities.
- Policy Development: Develop and standardize governance policies and procedures across Vocalink and all DRE Businesses.
- Resource Optimization: Ensure efficient use of resources within the governance team and leverage synergies across entities.
- Mentoring: Provide advice, mentoring, and development opportunities for all the company secretariat teams.
- Board Support: Ensure ongoing Company Secretarial support for the Vocalink Limited Board, including planning, agenda setting, and follow-up actions.
- Board Interaction: Encourage effective interaction between each Board and its Accountable Executives across Vocalink and the DRE Businesses.
- Compliance Monitoring: Monitor Vocalink compliance with governance, legal, and regulatory requirements, and advise the DRE Businesses where required.
- Director Management: Overall responsibility for Vocalink Director appointments, inductions, resignations, training, and applicable regulatory applications.
- Board Reviews: Coordinate External Board Effectiveness Reviews and deliver action plans for the Vocalink Limited Board.
- Governance Documents: Oversee annual Board and Committee Schedule of Matters, Terms of Reference, and key governance documents for the Vocalink Limited Board and its Committees.
- Statutory Disclosures: Overall responsibility for statutory disclosures, including Annual Report & Accounts and Modern Slavery Statement for the Vocalink entities.
- Legal Entity Management: Overall responsibility for statutory filings and maintenance of statutory registers and records for the Vocalink entities.
- Team Development and Thought Leadership: Develop the capabilities of the Vocalink Company Secretarial Team to ensure quality support and growth opportunities and act as a mentor and advisor to the company secretaries of the DRE Businesses.
- Relationship Building: Foster relationships with MC GLE Team, Company Secretarial teams, assigned attorneys, and related functions within the Mastercard Group.
- Reporting: Provide regular updates to Mastercard group executives on corporate governance in the DRE Businesses.
All About You
The successful candidate will possess the following experience:
- Proven experience working in a senior company secretary / corporate governance professional role in listed entities and/or entities facing significant direct regulation by e.g. financial regulators or central banks.
- Experience working in political environments, building strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, corporate executives and other functions necessary for the performance of the role.
- Ability to influence, anticipate and proactively address issues that may arise.
- Highly organized and detailed oriented: proficient in managing competing priorities and multi-tasking in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to build relationships and interact effectively with individuals at all levels.
- Strategic thinking and thought leadership; ability to provide strategic advice and support to senior leaders, ensuring alignment with team and organizational goals.
- Collaborative leadership style: ability to foster collaboration and resolve conflicts within the corporate governance structure of the DRE Businesses as well as other parts of the global Mastercard organization.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
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Team Banker, Vice President
London, London
Citigroup
Posted today
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Job Description
The Team Banker role is positioned as a strategic support function within a private banking team, focusing on serving the needs of ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) clients. The role necessitates a blend of client relationship management, sales support, investment acumen, and regulatory compliance expertise. The effectiveness of the Team Banker directly contributes to the team's overall performance and the success of the UK Private Bank Market.
Requires strong commercial awareness and developed communication and diplomacy skills, in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and external clients. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritise and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Provide excellent client service in partnership with the Private Bankers on the team and support the Team Leader in a wide range of strategic and leadership initiatives to contribute to the success of the collective team. Provide innovative support in marketing strategies, specifically with regards to prospecting and generating and supporting leads
+ The role works closely with clients, prospects and Private Bankers in the relevant Banking Team to provide a high level of sales and product experience and support the banker in all aspects of reporting and regulatory requirements. Solid knowledge of bank products and regulatory requirements are critical.
+ Support the team in providing a wide variety of service and investment advice to UK clients. Support serving clients by understanding their investment objectives and working in partnership with senior team members (Bankers and ICs) to deliver investment solutions, is a key part of this role. Develop relationships and generate ideas with the Bankers, ICs and clients that will lead to the growth of the asset base (NNIA and Wallet share)
+ Monitor and provide guidance on the markets to internal and external clients, analysing economic trends/activities and advise the effects on the investors' portfolios. Alongside key CPB partners, provide a view of potential changes to the investors' holdings after evaluating the economic, financial and market factors and the potential impact on the investors' portfolios. Work in partnership with the Private Bank team including CSOs to address financial needs and expectations of the client. Ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements in line with the policies of the Citi Private Bank. Participate in client meetings and account reviews to understand the clients' requirements if needed
+ Provide direct and indirect sales support to the Private Bankers through joint calls and work closely with product specialists and transactions support personnel to implement client decisions as well as ensuring after-sales follow-up
+ Understand how to execute transactions across the broad array of Citi products. Capture and maintain client information, Call Reports and Banker pipeline reporting. Become an expert at Sales Force and other data deliverables, including the systems and processes / procedures needed to successfully deliver Investments to our clients e.g. Tradelink Proficiency; also using financial software and Microsoft office suite.
+ Work with clients, Private Bankers and On-boarding teams to facilitate a/c opening and liaise with client to ensure completion of mandatory documentation.
+ Maintain learning program through internal courses and external certifications.
+ Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
**Qualifications:**
+ Extensive and proven experience in Private Banking having covered the UHNW market / Extensive experience in working with and/or leading client teams and transactions / Demonstrated track record in relationship selling
+ Pro-active, initiative and driven / Excellent communication skills, written and verbal / Excellent relationship building skills with clients and across hierarchical levels
+ Ideally qualified to IAD Level 4 or equivalent and up to date SPS
**Education:**
+ Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred
Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.
The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.
Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.
Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:
o Honesty, integrity and reputation
o Financial soundness
o Competence and capability
In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.
This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening check
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**Job Family Group:**
Private Client Coverage
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**Job Family:**
Private Banker
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**Time Type:**
Full time
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**Most Relevant Skills**
Please see the requirements listed above.
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**Other Relevant Skills**
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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_Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law._
_If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review_ _Accessibility at Citi ( _._
_View Citi's_ _EEO Policy Statement ( _and the_ _Know Your Rights ( _poster._
Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
Requires strong commercial awareness and developed communication and diplomacy skills, in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and external clients. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritise and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Provide excellent client service in partnership with the Private Bankers on the team and support the Team Leader in a wide range of strategic and leadership initiatives to contribute to the success of the collective team. Provide innovative support in marketing strategies, specifically with regards to prospecting and generating and supporting leads
+ The role works closely with clients, prospects and Private Bankers in the relevant Banking Team to provide a high level of sales and product experience and support the banker in all aspects of reporting and regulatory requirements. Solid knowledge of bank products and regulatory requirements are critical.
+ Support the team in providing a wide variety of service and investment advice to UK clients. Support serving clients by understanding their investment objectives and working in partnership with senior team members (Bankers and ICs) to deliver investment solutions, is a key part of this role. Develop relationships and generate ideas with the Bankers, ICs and clients that will lead to the growth of the asset base (NNIA and Wallet share)
+ Monitor and provide guidance on the markets to internal and external clients, analysing economic trends/activities and advise the effects on the investors' portfolios. Alongside key CPB partners, provide a view of potential changes to the investors' holdings after evaluating the economic, financial and market factors and the potential impact on the investors' portfolios. Work in partnership with the Private Bank team including CSOs to address financial needs and expectations of the client. Ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements in line with the policies of the Citi Private Bank. Participate in client meetings and account reviews to understand the clients' requirements if needed
+ Provide direct and indirect sales support to the Private Bankers through joint calls and work closely with product specialists and transactions support personnel to implement client decisions as well as ensuring after-sales follow-up
+ Understand how to execute transactions across the broad array of Citi products. Capture and maintain client information, Call Reports and Banker pipeline reporting. Become an expert at Sales Force and other data deliverables, including the systems and processes / procedures needed to successfully deliver Investments to our clients e.g. Tradelink Proficiency; also using financial software and Microsoft office suite.
+ Work with clients, Private Bankers and On-boarding teams to facilitate a/c opening and liaise with client to ensure completion of mandatory documentation.
+ Maintain learning program through internal courses and external certifications.
+ Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
**Qualifications:**
+ Extensive and proven experience in Private Banking having covered the UHNW market / Extensive experience in working with and/or leading client teams and transactions / Demonstrated track record in relationship selling
+ Pro-active, initiative and driven / Excellent communication skills, written and verbal / Excellent relationship building skills with clients and across hierarchical levels
+ Ideally qualified to IAD Level 4 or equivalent and up to date SPS
**Education:**
+ Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred
Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.
The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.
Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.
Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:
o Honesty, integrity and reputation
o Financial soundness
o Competence and capability
In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.
This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening check
---
**Job Family Group:**
Private Client Coverage
---
**Job Family:**
Private Banker
---
**Time Type:**
Full time
---
**Most Relevant Skills**
Please see the requirements listed above.
---
**Other Relevant Skills**
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
---
_Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law._
_If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review_ _Accessibility at Citi ( _._
_View Citi's_ _EEO Policy Statement ( _and the_ _Know Your Rights ( _poster._
Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
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4
Investment Accounting Vice President
Edinburgh, Scotland
BlackRock
Posted today
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**About this role**
**Vice President, Investment Accounting:**
Are you an Investment Accounting professional searching for an exciting, significant, multi-faceted opportunity with the world's largest asset manager? If you pride yourself on building positive relationships, developing process solutions and bringing strategic visions to fruition, then look no further! BlackRock is pursuing a Vice President to become a part of the team. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will accept rare skills, eagerness, and passion. All the while supporting the freedom to grow authoritatively and as an individual.
We know you want to feel valued every single day and be recognized for contributions! At BlackRock, we strive to equip our employees and actively engage their involvement in our success. Our technology and services empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial well-being. Join the team and experience what it feels like to be part of an organization that makes a difference.
Our Investment Accounting Group provides accounting and regulatory data services to insurance clients. Our accounting services include the reconciliation, tracking, accounting for assets, along with preparation and oversight of monthly packages and regulatory schedules.
**The Role:**
Responsible for handling all aspects of accounting and reporting services and meeting the needs and evolving priorities of our clients derivative assets. Focus on delivering BlackRock to clients by supporting the monthly accounting close, leading client/department initiatives, improving the process and controls using capabilities of other parts of the BlackRock organization as the need arises. There is an opportunity for continued professional development with a career path within the group, or into other operating teams or client-facing business areas across BlackRock. Our suite of services provided to our clients offers opportunities for further personal learning, both in terms of the product types and accounting complexities, as well as the ongoing development of technical strengths.
**Key responsibilities include:**
+ Develop a detailed knowledge of BlackRock's capabilities, products and services for insurance companies.
+ Keep abreast of and optimally communicate the implications of the evolving regulatory landscape and new accounting pronouncements to ensure compliance by our insurance company, across multiple bases of accounting i.e. IFRS, US Statutory, US GAAP, etc.
+ Support business growth, implementation of new clients, and client retention within the insurance sector working in partnership with other BlackRock teams.
+ Represent accounting on cross-functional projects and working groups in support of delivering key business and client objectives
+ Contribute to the continual development of the investment reporting production and control processes to optimize efficiency, mitigate risk and incorporate business and product changes, ensuring procedures are maintained in line with all current practices.
+ Work with vendor partners to ensure that our development priorities are clearly stated and champion the completion of each
+ Provide expert-level support on in person and phone conversations with clients on accounting-related matters
+ Conduct periodic training with the Investment Accounting Team.
+ Review all quarterly NAIC or other regulatory reconciliations with appropriate follow-up and resolution.
+ Assist with audits in reviewing results and recommend changes in control and in answering any follow-up questions
**Experience Required:**
+ Minimum 6 years of proven experience in investments/markets and understanding of investment accounting
+ Knowledge of insurance and investment companies, including the regulatory and accounting constraints and standards under which they operate
+ Continuous operational improvement and control enhancement mentality.
+ Familiarity with derivative financial instruments- specifically financial reporting and disclosures
**Our benefits**
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
**Our hybrid work model**
BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person - aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
**About BlackRock**
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock ( | Twitter: @blackrock ( | LinkedIn: is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
**Vice President, Investment Accounting:**
Are you an Investment Accounting professional searching for an exciting, significant, multi-faceted opportunity with the world's largest asset manager? If you pride yourself on building positive relationships, developing process solutions and bringing strategic visions to fruition, then look no further! BlackRock is pursuing a Vice President to become a part of the team. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will accept rare skills, eagerness, and passion. All the while supporting the freedom to grow authoritatively and as an individual.
We know you want to feel valued every single day and be recognized for contributions! At BlackRock, we strive to equip our employees and actively engage their involvement in our success. Our technology and services empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial well-being. Join the team and experience what it feels like to be part of an organization that makes a difference.
Our Investment Accounting Group provides accounting and regulatory data services to insurance clients. Our accounting services include the reconciliation, tracking, accounting for assets, along with preparation and oversight of monthly packages and regulatory schedules.
**The Role:**
Responsible for handling all aspects of accounting and reporting services and meeting the needs and evolving priorities of our clients derivative assets. Focus on delivering BlackRock to clients by supporting the monthly accounting close, leading client/department initiatives, improving the process and controls using capabilities of other parts of the BlackRock organization as the need arises. There is an opportunity for continued professional development with a career path within the group, or into other operating teams or client-facing business areas across BlackRock. Our suite of services provided to our clients offers opportunities for further personal learning, both in terms of the product types and accounting complexities, as well as the ongoing development of technical strengths.
**Key responsibilities include:**
+ Develop a detailed knowledge of BlackRock's capabilities, products and services for insurance companies.
+ Keep abreast of and optimally communicate the implications of the evolving regulatory landscape and new accounting pronouncements to ensure compliance by our insurance company, across multiple bases of accounting i.e. IFRS, US Statutory, US GAAP, etc.
+ Support business growth, implementation of new clients, and client retention within the insurance sector working in partnership with other BlackRock teams.
+ Represent accounting on cross-functional projects and working groups in support of delivering key business and client objectives
+ Contribute to the continual development of the investment reporting production and control processes to optimize efficiency, mitigate risk and incorporate business and product changes, ensuring procedures are maintained in line with all current practices.
+ Work with vendor partners to ensure that our development priorities are clearly stated and champion the completion of each
+ Provide expert-level support on in person and phone conversations with clients on accounting-related matters
+ Conduct periodic training with the Investment Accounting Team.
+ Review all quarterly NAIC or other regulatory reconciliations with appropriate follow-up and resolution.
+ Assist with audits in reviewing results and recommend changes in control and in answering any follow-up questions
**Experience Required:**
+ Minimum 6 years of proven experience in investments/markets and understanding of investment accounting
+ Knowledge of insurance and investment companies, including the regulatory and accounting constraints and standards under which they operate
+ Continuous operational improvement and control enhancement mentality.
+ Familiarity with derivative financial instruments- specifically financial reporting and disclosures
**Our benefits**
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
**Our hybrid work model**
BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person - aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
**About BlackRock**
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock ( | Twitter: @blackrock ( | LinkedIn: is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
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Vice President of Engineering
London, London
Uncapped
Posted 13 days ago
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Preference to be based in London / Warsaw
Willing to support in relocation
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Vice President, Liquidity Risk Management
London, London
MUFG
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**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.
**OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION**
The Liquidity Risk team is part of the broader Market and Liquidity Risk Management department and represents the firm's second line of defence to monitor adherence to the firm's market risk appetite.
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
**Main Purpose and Accountability of the Role**
Specifically you have accountability for supporting the Head of Liquidity Risk for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch for Liquidity Risk Management for both entities.
**Roles, Scope and Reporting Structure**
Liquidity Risk Manager for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch receives authority from and reports to the Head of Liquidity Risk for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
The role holder supports the Head of Liquidity Risk for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch responsibilities and specifically is responsible for the following:
+ Work closely with the Treasury, Front Office and support departments to establish new business activities and products and ensure key risk issues are highlighted and addressed in the trade approval process.
+ Provide challenge and review to first line functions as per the conventional responsibilities expected of those within a second line control function.
+ Ensure that adequate limits and risk framework are in place aligning with the firm's overall risk appetite and mandates, that risk positions are well managed within the established limits and limit breaches are appropriately escalated.
+ Providing accurate management information to facilitate better business decisions.
+ Maintain oversight over the quality of risk information in reports produced by the reporting team.
+ Engaging where appropriate relevant compliance/control processes and initiatives, e.g. Operational Risk, Internal Audits etc.
+ Engaging as a stakeholder where appropriate in the risk projects and ensuring that this reflects business and functional needs.
+ Keeping up to date with all regulatory liquidity requirements (local and Overseas) and assist with compliance on an on-going basis. This involves pro-active engagement with other areas of the Bank to share understanding of regulatory developments in the liquidity space.
For MUS(EMEA):
+ Monitor internal and external funding and liquidity metrics produced by the 1LoD to ensure that they remain within risk appetite and movements are explained and breaches are escalated to senior management / the regulator in a timely manner.
+ Review and challenge assumptions applied in liquidity metric calculations (e.g. MCO, LCR, NSFR, ALMM).
+ Review regulatory and industry updates (PRA consultation papers / statements of policy / EBA Q&As etc.) and opine on Treasury's interpretation of the guidance.
+ Review and challenge 1LoD owned policies (e.g. ILAAP, Regulatory Reporting Policy, FTP Policy, Contingency Funding Plan (CFP), Funding and Liquidity Risk Policy etc.).
+ Participate in the annual CFP test.
+ Review, challenge and approval of liquidity risk appetite (including limits).
+ Review and challenge EWI triggers and daily monitoring of Treasury/Finance produced metrics.
For MUFG London Branch:
+ Management of MUFG London Branch's internal liquidity risk stress-tests and gap metrics ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of information for the purposes of stress-testing and gap monitoring.
+ Responsibility for monitoring of liquidity risk for internal risk management.
+ Escalation of any vulnerability to Head of Liquidity Risk.
+ Monitoring of liquidity profile relative to liquidity metrics both local and Head Office.
+ Review and challenge EWI triggers.
+ Involvement in the annual CFP test.
Relationship with other functions and stakeholders
+ The role holder will manage the following matters, appropriate for LRM, and is responsible for:
+ Maintaining and enhancing good working relationships with stakeholders, including business and control / infrastructure teams globally.
+ Working in partnership with Risk specialists across the region and globally to share best practice, provide support and develop effective risk policies appropriate to EMEA.
+ Interacting with Regulators, Inspectors and Internal and External Auditors on matters pertaining to the remit of the head of liquidity risk where necessary.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
Essential
+ Experience with liquidity risk management for broker/dealer entities.
+ Thorough understanding of regulatory metrics and calculation methods and assumptions.
+ Demonstrated ability to develop, review and maintain internal stress testing models
+ Excellent understanding of capital markets and products.
**Education / Qualifications:**
Preferred
+ At least a 2:1 Degree or equivalent in a numerical / science based subject
**PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS**
+ The structure in the team is flat, and the successful candidate will be expected to engage with key stakeholders across the firm. In addition to the technical skills outlined above, the candidate is expected to demonstrate strong communication skills and an ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly
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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
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.
**OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION**
The Liquidity Risk team is part of the broader Market and Liquidity Risk Management department and represents the firm's second line of defence to monitor adherence to the firm's market risk appetite.
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
**Main Purpose and Accountability of the Role**
Specifically you have accountability for supporting the Head of Liquidity Risk for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch for Liquidity Risk Management for both entities.
**Roles, Scope and Reporting Structure**
Liquidity Risk Manager for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch receives authority from and reports to the Head of Liquidity Risk for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
The role holder supports the Head of Liquidity Risk for MUS(EMEA) and MUFG London Branch responsibilities and specifically is responsible for the following:
+ Work closely with the Treasury, Front Office and support departments to establish new business activities and products and ensure key risk issues are highlighted and addressed in the trade approval process.
+ Provide challenge and review to first line functions as per the conventional responsibilities expected of those within a second line control function.
+ Ensure that adequate limits and risk framework are in place aligning with the firm's overall risk appetite and mandates, that risk positions are well managed within the established limits and limit breaches are appropriately escalated.
+ Providing accurate management information to facilitate better business decisions.
+ Maintain oversight over the quality of risk information in reports produced by the reporting team.
+ Engaging where appropriate relevant compliance/control processes and initiatives, e.g. Operational Risk, Internal Audits etc.
+ Engaging as a stakeholder where appropriate in the risk projects and ensuring that this reflects business and functional needs.
+ Keeping up to date with all regulatory liquidity requirements (local and Overseas) and assist with compliance on an on-going basis. This involves pro-active engagement with other areas of the Bank to share understanding of regulatory developments in the liquidity space.
For MUS(EMEA):
+ Monitor internal and external funding and liquidity metrics produced by the 1LoD to ensure that they remain within risk appetite and movements are explained and breaches are escalated to senior management / the regulator in a timely manner.
+ Review and challenge assumptions applied in liquidity metric calculations (e.g. MCO, LCR, NSFR, ALMM).
+ Review regulatory and industry updates (PRA consultation papers / statements of policy / EBA Q&As etc.) and opine on Treasury's interpretation of the guidance.
+ Review and challenge 1LoD owned policies (e.g. ILAAP, Regulatory Reporting Policy, FTP Policy, Contingency Funding Plan (CFP), Funding and Liquidity Risk Policy etc.).
+ Participate in the annual CFP test.
+ Review, challenge and approval of liquidity risk appetite (including limits).
+ Review and challenge EWI triggers and daily monitoring of Treasury/Finance produced metrics.
For MUFG London Branch:
+ Management of MUFG London Branch's internal liquidity risk stress-tests and gap metrics ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of information for the purposes of stress-testing and gap monitoring.
+ Responsibility for monitoring of liquidity risk for internal risk management.
+ Escalation of any vulnerability to Head of Liquidity Risk.
+ Monitoring of liquidity profile relative to liquidity metrics both local and Head Office.
+ Review and challenge EWI triggers.
+ Involvement in the annual CFP test.
Relationship with other functions and stakeholders
+ The role holder will manage the following matters, appropriate for LRM, and is responsible for:
+ Maintaining and enhancing good working relationships with stakeholders, including business and control / infrastructure teams globally.
+ Working in partnership with Risk specialists across the region and globally to share best practice, provide support and develop effective risk policies appropriate to EMEA.
+ Interacting with Regulators, Inspectors and Internal and External Auditors on matters pertaining to the remit of the head of liquidity risk where necessary.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
Essential
+ Experience with liquidity risk management for broker/dealer entities.
+ Thorough understanding of regulatory metrics and calculation methods and assumptions.
+ Demonstrated ability to develop, review and maintain internal stress testing models
+ Excellent understanding of capital markets and products.
**Education / Qualifications:**
Preferred
+ At least a 2:1 Degree or equivalent in a numerical / science based subject
**PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS**
+ The structure in the team is flat, and the successful candidate will be expected to engage with key stakeholders across the firm. In addition to the technical skills outlined above, the candidate is expected to demonstrate strong communication skills and an ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly
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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
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7
Vice President, Operations Project Manager
London, London
MUFG
Posted today
Job Viewed
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.
The Operations change function supports change across all operations systems and processes.
The project is supporting the organisation in a key initiative enabling the EMEA regional strategy. The role is within a programme of work focused. The project will deliver a merger of 2 existing entities.
**NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS**
N/A
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
+ To plan, direct and govern the changes required to Operations systems and processes within the project structure, ensuring quality, outcomes, timelines and cost requirements are delivered. This includes ensuring compliance to the prescribed project delivery framework and ensuring that reporting obligations as defined within the project delivery framework are met.
To scope the project and plan project delivery. The project being delivered will be both non-IT (including but not limited to creation of a new procedure or standard or new control(s); Redesign of a business process; Organizational change management; Regulatory impact assessments) and IT related (including but not limited to creation of or enhancements/revisions to an application, creating a database, or system migration).
To design and recruit (from internal teams) the project delivery team. To matrix manage project delivery staff as regards their involvement on the project. To manage un-resourced roles in line with published rules and timelines (and minimize escalation except for valid exceptions e.g. re-prioritsation of resource with critical skills / on the project critical path)
To engage all stakeholders of the project and operate effectively within established project governance using the guidelines in the project delivery framework. Ensure that escalation is into the relevant governance committees.
To create the baseline plan and scope for the project. To oversee that project delivery adheres to agreed scope and baselined timeline. To re-plan and raise change controls without the project breaching approved budget / timeline etc. when change happens.
To provide Change Management expertise to manage delivery, resolve conflict and mitigate change risk and advise the business on decisions relating to change
To structure the project plan with meaningful milestones (following guidelines in the project delivery framework) that, when baselined, provide a basis to regular project reporting. Provide transparency as to project progress in regular project updates; ensuring that no project reporting data becomes "stale" or out of date. Ensure that reporting updates are meaningful to all project and programme stakeholders, not all of whom will be SME's in all aspects of the project. Provide executive summarized information when requested to Central PMO for inclusion in executive reporting about the project.
To support portfolio manager in the delivery of portfolio strategy, including providing input into the required reporting forums
To collaborate with key functional or business stakeholders to achieve clear outcomes / deliverables in relation to the portfolio book of work
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
Full lifecycle project management ensuring that the project being delivered is compliant to minimum quality standards defined in the project delivery policy / process / procedures. This includes being complete (in terms of data capture as specified in the toolset and documentation standards); current (no stale data as in missed dates); and accurate (maintained with the latest update). Responsibility for the project will be from initiation through to handover to business and project closure.
+ This will be through regular and proactive use of reporting provided by central PMO; and regular meetings with staff delivering the portfolio of work
+ Regular catch-up with peers / risk control owners in other departments who have vested interest in quality project delivery
+ Using golden source data to submit updates to oversight / executive committees instead of off-line data sources
+ Sign-off all deliverables assigned to the Project Manager roles in the project delivery lifecycle RACI and roles and responsibilities
+ Run and manage steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against timelines and responsible stakeholders
Support the portfolio manager, who has overarching responsibility for the governance and delivery of all projects within the portfolio.
Identify and understand issues, errors or concerns, swiftly and accurately and resolve
problems taking into account agreed policy, procedures and service needs.
Carry out analysis and form clear recommendations and proposal on projects / programmes based on sound business rationale. Clearly articulate strategic imperatives and benefits of projects - describe complex problems and solutions in a compelling manner, influencing senior management. Ensure consensus and collaboration with project delivery partners. Be a trusted partner to stakeholders, central PMO and other departments ensuring updates are transparent and accurate; actions, risks, issues, dependencies are effectively managed through to completion.
Run and manage project steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability for delivery of actions against planned timelines is clearly defined / executed.
Define and track the delivery of project outcomes and benefits in order to justify the business case and decisions to prioritise the project for delivery.
Engage, contract and manage third party vendors within the procurement policy and third party vendor management policy.
Define and recruit (from internal teams) project delivery staff of the correct calibre to deliver success. Ensure that responsibilities are appropriately assigned and controlled. Ensure that project and steering staff have a clear understanding of their duties to ensure that project delivery is adequately monitored and controlled.
Show awareness of all sub portfolio's within the investment portfolios in scope to assist in identifying synergies and avoiding duplication of effort.
Ensure that project delivery steering committees / working groups remain in governance: that meetings are quorate, the Terms of Reference are reviewed at the end of each project delivery phase, that the portfolio committee has visibility / transparency of project delivery status, change and risk and that project risk and issues (RAID) items are escalated appropriately / on time. This is through:
+ Creating a baseline and management of baseline (budget, scope, outcomes / benefits, timeline)
+ Approval of change
+ Approval and closure of mitigating actions for escalated risks and issues
+ Approval of project go live and capture / logging of Accountable Executive Attestation at go live
+ Approval to close project following update as to lessons learned and project closure reports
+ Approval of every project business case (benefits vs cost)
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
Essential:
+ Minimum 5 years proven track record delivering Operations related change projects for financial institutions within time and budget.
+ Demonstrable experience of:
+ **Strong product and operational process knowledge -** in depth knowledge of derivatives (IRD, FX Swaps / Fwds, FX Options). Good understanding of trade lifecycle events including trade and client management, supporting data, collateral and cash management, reference data, trade and transaction reporting and network management. Experience of Trade migration / transition. Good appreciation for delivery of effective and sustainable processes and related controls.
+ **Investment budget management** - accurate forecasting of cost categories; management of "estimate at complete" vs budget; budget change control (at individual project or programme level). Demonstratable insight into controlling cost e.g. no actuals being committed before budget approval and planning / interventions that need to be made if approved budget (vs committed budget) is at risk of being exceeded
+ **Investment project allocations agreement** - working across stakeholders to agree how project costs (budget, increase to on-going expense budget) and benefits and gaining commitment that these costs are factored into their department business plans.
+ **Delivery resource review and attestation of on time project / programme delivery ("doability")** - working across resource supply teams to confirm the availability of required capacity to deliver the portfolio; overseeing project manager progress to securing resource or re-planning project delivery timelines avoiding "crisis escalation" except in genuine cases of inability to secure a rare skillset.
+ **Project / Programme Management Subject Matter Expertise** - Experience of managing delivery of wide range of operations related change required to support the merger on day 1, resolving conflict, delays and mitigate change risk and advise the business on decisions relating to change
+ **Project / Programme governance design and delivery** - delivering regular and relevant reports to portfolio committees / or more senior management / executive forums. Regular, proactive maintenance of the project governance committee terms of reference and minute taking / management. Regular review and challenge of all Risk, Assumption / Action, Issues, Dependencies/ Decision (RAID) logs within the portfolio; and creation of portfolio level RAID items ensuring they are not "stale".
+ **Document Management** - ensure all project / programme artefacts are consistently structured to standards and maintained for ease of reference by second / third line of defence and by Central PMO.
+ **Project / Programme closure** - ensuring that every project / programme is "cleanly" closed and all "open" project items are risk accepted or closed within budget.
Preferred:
+ Strong knowledge of banking regulations and running front office projects.
+ Good understanding of financial products and front office processes with a good appreciation of front-to-back processes.
+ Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skill sets and across the organisation.
+ Experience of working with and negotiating contracts for vendors and consultancies
+ Coaching, mentoring and leadership skills
+ Proven experience and expert understanding of delivering through full project lifecycle SDLC/PDLC using waterfall and agile approaches
+ Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels.
+ Proven experience of managing budgets.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
Essential
+ Financial - cost categorization (capital vs expense)
+ Project / Programme management including change control (of one of or a combination of scope, budget, plan, benefits change to baseline)
+ Project / programme baseline control and management
+ Delivering projects / programmes from delivery prioritization by portfolio committee, through to delivery and closure
+ Lessons learned / post implementation review delivery
+ Change Risk management
+ Familiarity with / experience of adhering to key controls (SOX, project delivery standards, third party risk management, operational resilience management, data protection etc)
+ Portfolio management
+ Creation / planning of a portfolio (annual planning)
+ Delivery of a portfolio
+ Reporting (including executive reporting)
+ Risk and issue management
+ Roadmap and critical path management
+ Financial control / management
+ Resource (demand and supply) management
+ Structuring governance (including Terms of Reference definition & management)
**Education / Qualifications:**
Preferred:
+ Relevant qualifications / accreditations e.g. Prince2, PMI, Six Sigma or other.
**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 Project, Microsoft Office & other project management tool 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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
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.
The Operations change function supports change across all operations systems and processes.
The project is supporting the organisation in a key initiative enabling the EMEA regional strategy. The role is within a programme of work focused. The project will deliver a merger of 2 existing entities.
**NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS**
N/A
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
+ To plan, direct and govern the changes required to Operations systems and processes within the project structure, ensuring quality, outcomes, timelines and cost requirements are delivered. This includes ensuring compliance to the prescribed project delivery framework and ensuring that reporting obligations as defined within the project delivery framework are met.
To scope the project and plan project delivery. The project being delivered will be both non-IT (including but not limited to creation of a new procedure or standard or new control(s); Redesign of a business process; Organizational change management; Regulatory impact assessments) and IT related (including but not limited to creation of or enhancements/revisions to an application, creating a database, or system migration).
To design and recruit (from internal teams) the project delivery team. To matrix manage project delivery staff as regards their involvement on the project. To manage un-resourced roles in line with published rules and timelines (and minimize escalation except for valid exceptions e.g. re-prioritsation of resource with critical skills / on the project critical path)
To engage all stakeholders of the project and operate effectively within established project governance using the guidelines in the project delivery framework. Ensure that escalation is into the relevant governance committees.
To create the baseline plan and scope for the project. To oversee that project delivery adheres to agreed scope and baselined timeline. To re-plan and raise change controls without the project breaching approved budget / timeline etc. when change happens.
To provide Change Management expertise to manage delivery, resolve conflict and mitigate change risk and advise the business on decisions relating to change
To structure the project plan with meaningful milestones (following guidelines in the project delivery framework) that, when baselined, provide a basis to regular project reporting. Provide transparency as to project progress in regular project updates; ensuring that no project reporting data becomes "stale" or out of date. Ensure that reporting updates are meaningful to all project and programme stakeholders, not all of whom will be SME's in all aspects of the project. Provide executive summarized information when requested to Central PMO for inclusion in executive reporting about the project.
To support portfolio manager in the delivery of portfolio strategy, including providing input into the required reporting forums
To collaborate with key functional or business stakeholders to achieve clear outcomes / deliverables in relation to the portfolio book of work
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
Full lifecycle project management ensuring that the project being delivered is compliant to minimum quality standards defined in the project delivery policy / process / procedures. This includes being complete (in terms of data capture as specified in the toolset and documentation standards); current (no stale data as in missed dates); and accurate (maintained with the latest update). Responsibility for the project will be from initiation through to handover to business and project closure.
+ This will be through regular and proactive use of reporting provided by central PMO; and regular meetings with staff delivering the portfolio of work
+ Regular catch-up with peers / risk control owners in other departments who have vested interest in quality project delivery
+ Using golden source data to submit updates to oversight / executive committees instead of off-line data sources
+ Sign-off all deliverables assigned to the Project Manager roles in the project delivery lifecycle RACI and roles and responsibilities
+ Run and manage steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability of actions against timelines and responsible stakeholders
Support the portfolio manager, who has overarching responsibility for the governance and delivery of all projects within the portfolio.
Identify and understand issues, errors or concerns, swiftly and accurately and resolve
problems taking into account agreed policy, procedures and service needs.
Carry out analysis and form clear recommendations and proposal on projects / programmes based on sound business rationale. Clearly articulate strategic imperatives and benefits of projects - describe complex problems and solutions in a compelling manner, influencing senior management. Ensure consensus and collaboration with project delivery partners. Be a trusted partner to stakeholders, central PMO and other departments ensuring updates are transparent and accurate; actions, risks, issues, dependencies are effectively managed through to completion.
Run and manage project steering committees, working groups (cross functional) and ensure accountability for delivery of actions against planned timelines is clearly defined / executed.
Define and track the delivery of project outcomes and benefits in order to justify the business case and decisions to prioritise the project for delivery.
Engage, contract and manage third party vendors within the procurement policy and third party vendor management policy.
Define and recruit (from internal teams) project delivery staff of the correct calibre to deliver success. Ensure that responsibilities are appropriately assigned and controlled. Ensure that project and steering staff have a clear understanding of their duties to ensure that project delivery is adequately monitored and controlled.
Show awareness of all sub portfolio's within the investment portfolios in scope to assist in identifying synergies and avoiding duplication of effort.
Ensure that project delivery steering committees / working groups remain in governance: that meetings are quorate, the Terms of Reference are reviewed at the end of each project delivery phase, that the portfolio committee has visibility / transparency of project delivery status, change and risk and that project risk and issues (RAID) items are escalated appropriately / on time. This is through:
+ Creating a baseline and management of baseline (budget, scope, outcomes / benefits, timeline)
+ Approval of change
+ Approval and closure of mitigating actions for escalated risks and issues
+ Approval of project go live and capture / logging of Accountable Executive Attestation at go live
+ Approval to close project following update as to lessons learned and project closure reports
+ Approval of every project business case (benefits vs cost)
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
Essential:
+ Minimum 5 years proven track record delivering Operations related change projects for financial institutions within time and budget.
+ Demonstrable experience of:
+ **Strong product and operational process knowledge -** in depth knowledge of derivatives (IRD, FX Swaps / Fwds, FX Options). Good understanding of trade lifecycle events including trade and client management, supporting data, collateral and cash management, reference data, trade and transaction reporting and network management. Experience of Trade migration / transition. Good appreciation for delivery of effective and sustainable processes and related controls.
+ **Investment budget management** - accurate forecasting of cost categories; management of "estimate at complete" vs budget; budget change control (at individual project or programme level). Demonstratable insight into controlling cost e.g. no actuals being committed before budget approval and planning / interventions that need to be made if approved budget (vs committed budget) is at risk of being exceeded
+ **Investment project allocations agreement** - working across stakeholders to agree how project costs (budget, increase to on-going expense budget) and benefits and gaining commitment that these costs are factored into their department business plans.
+ **Delivery resource review and attestation of on time project / programme delivery ("doability")** - working across resource supply teams to confirm the availability of required capacity to deliver the portfolio; overseeing project manager progress to securing resource or re-planning project delivery timelines avoiding "crisis escalation" except in genuine cases of inability to secure a rare skillset.
+ **Project / Programme Management Subject Matter Expertise** - Experience of managing delivery of wide range of operations related change required to support the merger on day 1, resolving conflict, delays and mitigate change risk and advise the business on decisions relating to change
+ **Project / Programme governance design and delivery** - delivering regular and relevant reports to portfolio committees / or more senior management / executive forums. Regular, proactive maintenance of the project governance committee terms of reference and minute taking / management. Regular review and challenge of all Risk, Assumption / Action, Issues, Dependencies/ Decision (RAID) logs within the portfolio; and creation of portfolio level RAID items ensuring they are not "stale".
+ **Document Management** - ensure all project / programme artefacts are consistently structured to standards and maintained for ease of reference by second / third line of defence and by Central PMO.
+ **Project / Programme closure** - ensuring that every project / programme is "cleanly" closed and all "open" project items are risk accepted or closed within budget.
Preferred:
+ Strong knowledge of banking regulations and running front office projects.
+ Good understanding of financial products and front office processes with a good appreciation of front-to-back processes.
+ Demonstrable track record of managing multiple stakeholders and building relationships across diverse skill sets and across the organisation.
+ Experience of working with and negotiating contracts for vendors and consultancies
+ Coaching, mentoring and leadership skills
+ Proven experience and expert understanding of delivering through full project lifecycle SDLC/PDLC using waterfall and agile approaches
+ Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels.
+ Proven experience of managing budgets.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
Essential
+ Financial - cost categorization (capital vs expense)
+ Project / Programme management including change control (of one of or a combination of scope, budget, plan, benefits change to baseline)
+ Project / programme baseline control and management
+ Delivering projects / programmes from delivery prioritization by portfolio committee, through to delivery and closure
+ Lessons learned / post implementation review delivery
+ Change Risk management
+ Familiarity with / experience of adhering to key controls (SOX, project delivery standards, third party risk management, operational resilience management, data protection etc)
+ Portfolio management
+ Creation / planning of a portfolio (annual planning)
+ Delivery of a portfolio
+ Reporting (including executive reporting)
+ Risk and issue management
+ Roadmap and critical path management
+ Financial control / management
+ Resource (demand and supply) management
+ Structuring governance (including Terms of Reference definition & management)
**Education / Qualifications:**
Preferred:
+ Relevant qualifications / accreditations e.g. Prince2, PMI, Six Sigma or other.
**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 Project, Microsoft Office & other project management tool 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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
This advertiser has chosen not to accept applicants from your region.
8
Vice President - Credit Portfolio Manager
London, London
MUFG
Posted today
Job Viewed
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.
**OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION**
**Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group** ("MUFG") is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.
We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group's operating companies include, but are not limited to, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.
Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.
**Credit Portfolio Management (CPM)** is a global function that is responsible for actively managing MUFG Bank's loan portfolio including monitoring the credit quality and efficiency of the loan portfolio, developing and executing hedging and loan sales strategies to protect/optimize the bank's capital using real-market information, market research and traditional fundamental credit analysis. In addition, CPM works closely with the business lines to participate in the analysis and evaluation of new business opportunities and provide exposure management solutions when necessary.
**NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS**
None
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
+ The successful candidate will join the Advisory & Research (A&R) team in its newly established function for managing stressed and distressed credit situations within the first line of defence. The main purpose of this role is overseeing borrowers from initial signs of weakness up to debt repayment either through exposure management or legal workouts in distressed scenarios.
+ The A&R team is part of the EMEA Credit Portfolio Management Office (ECPMO), which actively works with its business partners throughout the MUFG group to analyse new business opportunities, create and execute risk management solutions using various liquid or illiquid hedging tools such as CDS, Credit Insurance, Securitizations, Loans sales and Risk Participations and perform various analyses of the Bank's loan portfolio.
+ The role holder is expected to actively participate in broader ECPMO ad hoc projects. These may entail facilitating the execution of new, profitable transactions and to participate in the overall risk management process to improve the risk/return characteristics of the bank's portfolio.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
To work with senior management, relationship management divisions, credit analysis divisions and risk functions to:
+ Monitor markets and borrower news flow and work with colleagues across analytical functions within the first line of defence to enable the early detection of credit concerns.
+ Conduct independent in-depth credit analysis on specific borrowers encompassing financial analysis/projections to assess the implications of various drivers on a borrower's credit quality.
+ Carry out a thorough assessment of a borrower's capital structure and understand the seniority of debt repayment. This will entail reviewing legal documentation, covering areas such as transferability restrictions, covenants, events of defaults, asset protection, security.etc.
+ Looking through the valuation of comparable companies to assess a borrower's enterprise values and go through a waterfall analysis of the capital structure to assess recoveries for our exposures.
+ Thinking strategically about our positioning versus other lenders and understanding strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
+ Looking at market instruments and using relative value analysis to offer indicative market values of our exposures.
+ Assess various exposure management strategies and liaise with various specialist teams covering solutions such as but not limited to, loan sales, credit insurance and credit default swaps.
+ Present to various stakeholders (including senior management and committees) the outcome of their analysis in a clear, concise and confident manner.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
**Essential:**
Must demonstrate command of any two of the following three skill sets and be eager to develop skills for the remaining third:
+ Understanding of corporate lending encompassing leveraged finance, growth markets, stressed and/or distressed credit investing,
+ Understanding of credit risk pricing gained ideally through fixed income or loan investing, including areas such as corporate credit, sovereign and varying degrees of seniority and security.
+ Understanding of risk mitigation products such as Credit Default Swaps Credit Insurance, Loan sales, Risk Participations and Securitization. preferably including within a portfolio context;
**Preferred:**
+ Hands on experience in managing stressed and/or distressed credit within a legal or financial advisory environment.
+ Understanding of relationship banking and ancillary banking products such as fixed income, interest rate swaps, FX and cash management.
**SKILLS**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
Essential:
+ Strong communication and presentation skills.
+ Strong interpersonal skills in the management of multiple senior stakeholders.
+ Solid understanding pf credit analysis, credit ratings and credit markets.
+ Proficient user of MS Office applications, Excel for financial modelling and data analysis along with word and PowerPoint.
Preferred:
+ 'Bloomberg and other market information systems, possibly VBA experience.
**Education / Qualifications:**
**Essential:**
+ Degree educated (Business, Economics, Law, Accounting or relevant technical subject) or demonstrating equivalent practical experience.
Preferred:
+ Industry qualification in a credit analysis or debt management related subject (CFA, CQF, etc.), legal or auditing qualifications and/or completion of formal credit training.
**PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS**
+ Friendly and collaborative personality which values a well established team culture
+ Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
+ Proactive, self-motivated, results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
+ The ability to operate in a fast paced environment and prioritise work accordingly
+ Strong numerical and problem solving skills
+ A creative and innovative approach to work
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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
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.
**OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION**
**Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group** ("MUFG") is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.
As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.
We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group's operating companies include, but are not limited to, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.
Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.
**Credit Portfolio Management (CPM)** is a global function that is responsible for actively managing MUFG Bank's loan portfolio including monitoring the credit quality and efficiency of the loan portfolio, developing and executing hedging and loan sales strategies to protect/optimize the bank's capital using real-market information, market research and traditional fundamental credit analysis. In addition, CPM works closely with the business lines to participate in the analysis and evaluation of new business opportunities and provide exposure management solutions when necessary.
**NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS**
None
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
+ The successful candidate will join the Advisory & Research (A&R) team in its newly established function for managing stressed and distressed credit situations within the first line of defence. The main purpose of this role is overseeing borrowers from initial signs of weakness up to debt repayment either through exposure management or legal workouts in distressed scenarios.
+ The A&R team is part of the EMEA Credit Portfolio Management Office (ECPMO), which actively works with its business partners throughout the MUFG group to analyse new business opportunities, create and execute risk management solutions using various liquid or illiquid hedging tools such as CDS, Credit Insurance, Securitizations, Loans sales and Risk Participations and perform various analyses of the Bank's loan portfolio.
+ The role holder is expected to actively participate in broader ECPMO ad hoc projects. These may entail facilitating the execution of new, profitable transactions and to participate in the overall risk management process to improve the risk/return characteristics of the bank's portfolio.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
To work with senior management, relationship management divisions, credit analysis divisions and risk functions to:
+ Monitor markets and borrower news flow and work with colleagues across analytical functions within the first line of defence to enable the early detection of credit concerns.
+ Conduct independent in-depth credit analysis on specific borrowers encompassing financial analysis/projections to assess the implications of various drivers on a borrower's credit quality.
+ Carry out a thorough assessment of a borrower's capital structure and understand the seniority of debt repayment. This will entail reviewing legal documentation, covering areas such as transferability restrictions, covenants, events of defaults, asset protection, security.etc.
+ Looking through the valuation of comparable companies to assess a borrower's enterprise values and go through a waterfall analysis of the capital structure to assess recoveries for our exposures.
+ Thinking strategically about our positioning versus other lenders and understanding strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
+ Looking at market instruments and using relative value analysis to offer indicative market values of our exposures.
+ Assess various exposure management strategies and liaise with various specialist teams covering solutions such as but not limited to, loan sales, credit insurance and credit default swaps.
+ Present to various stakeholders (including senior management and committees) the outcome of their analysis in a clear, concise and confident manner.
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
**Essential:**
Must demonstrate command of any two of the following three skill sets and be eager to develop skills for the remaining third:
+ Understanding of corporate lending encompassing leveraged finance, growth markets, stressed and/or distressed credit investing,
+ Understanding of credit risk pricing gained ideally through fixed income or loan investing, including areas such as corporate credit, sovereign and varying degrees of seniority and security.
+ Understanding of risk mitigation products such as Credit Default Swaps Credit Insurance, Loan sales, Risk Participations and Securitization. preferably including within a portfolio context;
**Preferred:**
+ Hands on experience in managing stressed and/or distressed credit within a legal or financial advisory environment.
+ Understanding of relationship banking and ancillary banking products such as fixed income, interest rate swaps, FX and cash management.
**SKILLS**
**Functional / Technical Competencies:**
Essential:
+ Strong communication and presentation skills.
+ Strong interpersonal skills in the management of multiple senior stakeholders.
+ Solid understanding pf credit analysis, credit ratings and credit markets.
+ Proficient user of MS Office applications, Excel for financial modelling and data analysis along with word and PowerPoint.
Preferred:
+ 'Bloomberg and other market information systems, possibly VBA experience.
**Education / Qualifications:**
**Essential:**
+ Degree educated (Business, Economics, Law, Accounting or relevant technical subject) or demonstrating equivalent practical experience.
Preferred:
+ Industry qualification in a credit analysis or debt management related subject (CFA, CQF, etc.), legal or auditing qualifications and/or completion of formal credit training.
**PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS**
+ Friendly and collaborative personality which values a well established team culture
+ Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
+ Proactive, self-motivated, results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
+ The ability to operate in a fast paced environment and prioritise work accordingly
+ Strong numerical and problem solving skills
+ A creative and innovative approach to work
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.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute
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