Vice President Project Finance Investment Banking

Company: MUFG
Location: New York
Posted on: November 26, 2022

Job Description:

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 5th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we're 180,000 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. 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 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 above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified The typical base pay range for this role is between $200K - $250K 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. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual's associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. #LI-Onsite

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