Vice President - Infrastructure Project Finance Investment Banking

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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 selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

MUFG’s Project Finance Team :

MUFG is an expert in project finance, supporting clients in acquiring, building, or recapitalizing assets in the power, energy, natural resources, transportation, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors.

We have one of the most active project finance businesses in the world and have consistently been ranked the #1 overall project finance bank in the Americas since 2009.

The project finance team comprises approximately 70 individuals who actively originate, structure, and execute debt project financing transactions.

Project finance transactions include bank loan arranging, senior notes placement or bookrunning, institutional loan bookrunning, and project finance advisory services.

Transactions often also involve interest rate and currency derivatives. The team works closely with dedicated partners in MUFG’s debt capital markets and global markets teams to seamlessly deliver debt financing and risk management solutions for clients across markets.

Responsibilities Include :

• Contribute to origination and execution of debt project financing transactions, working closely with Managing Directors and Directors.
• Identify and review new business opportunities, lead process of screening new deals with senior management for approval.
• Establish client relationships and work with clients regularly, including attending in-person client meetings.
• Oversee and contribute to detailed financial analysis and transaction diligence, including reviewing market studies, engineering reports, environmental and social risk reports, financial models, financial statements, client and counterparty financial information, project commercial agreements, and legal diligence memoranda.
• Provide instruction, oversight, and review of financial projection development, including detailed cash flow and nonrecourse debt structure analyses.
• Evaluate, understand, mitigate, and articulate risks associated with project financing transactions.
• Advise clients on matters pertaining to commercial and financial structure, and operating requirements in order to achieve suitability for non-recourse debt financing that meets client objectives.
• Perform credit ratings analysis and assist in obtaining credit ratings for transactions involving debt capital markets.
• Review, analyze, and negotiate term sheets and financing documentation.
• Lead development of financing transaction marketing materials, including rating agency presentations, lender and investor presentations, and information memoranda.
• Own and manage processes required for compliance and execution, including profitability analysis, committee approvals, legal due diligence, KYC, and closing checklists.
• Deliver seamless transaction execution with minimal oversight in all respects, including origination, diligence, analysis, structuring, approvals, closing, syndication, and liaising with various relevant internal and external partners.
• Serve as a control and audit function for internal and external work product.
• Provide mentorship and training to Associates and Analysts.
• Act as a role model for colleagues and junior staff; be the embodiment of MUFG’s client centric culture.

Qualifications :

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience (typically 7+) in the financial services industry; preferably in project finance, especially marketing, execution, due diligence, documentation, credit analysis, and credit administration, managing approval requirements and processes, and effectively interacting with clients.
• Familiarity with the big picture , anticipating workflow rather than acting reactively.
• Proactive, resourceful self-starter capable of rapidly learning new systems and processes and working effectively in a team environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Capacity to consistently communicate professionally, tactfully, and effectively with clients, third party advisors, and colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure in a high-intensity environment and effectively manage / prioritize and deliver on multiple streams of workflow while maintaining high degree of attention to detail and accuracy in all respects.
• Structuring and negotiating skills; well versed in credit documentation.
• Advanced financial modeling and cash flow analysis experience.
• Understanding of key products (Loans, Bonds, Interest Rates Swap, and Foreign Exchange).
• Authorization to work in the United States on a permanent basis.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $190K - $230K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location.

This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and / or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business.

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