AVP - Credit Portfolio Manager

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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.

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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 be part of CPM for EMEA (ECPMO), which actively works with its business partners in the bank and the 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.
Specifically, the main purpose of this role is to provide advisory services to the Bank’s relationship managers and asset originators at the point of transacting. The role sits within ECPMO’s Advisory Team, whose primary responsibility is to support the Bank’s businesses in making lending and asset origination decisions that make best use of the Bank’s balance sheet (liquidity and capital). Additionally, the role will involve managing ad hoc projects where ECPMO can facilitate the execution of new, profitable transactions and to participate in the overall risk management process to improve the risk/return characteristics of the portfolio.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

To support the Advisory team in working with the Bank’s relationship managers and asset originators to:

Advise them on the economics of transactions and from an overall client relationship perspective (RoE and relative value analysis). Actively monitor financial markets and economic developments to assist in appropriate benchmark selection as well as participate in market updates with business teams.
Support devising exposure management strategies and to advise businesses on the economics of identified alternatives.
Support advising optimal hold amounts to align with the bank’s risk appetite for retained credit risk.
Liaise with the product specialist teams involved (loan sales, credit insurance, CDS).
Perform risk-return analysis at the business line or portfolio level to help optimize portfolio constraints.