Project Finance Manager - Energy & Infrastructure - Vice President

MUFG Bank • New York, NY

254d • $180,000 - $250,000

About The Position

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 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. 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.

Requirements

• 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, with full involvement in marketing, execution, due diligence, documentation, credit analysis, and credit administration.
• 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 analytical skills both quantitative and qualitative.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong capability to logically assess, summarize and articulate all aspects of the risks and make balanced judgements.
• Strong work ethic and ability to pay careful attention.
• 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 a 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).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the origination and execution of debt project financing transactions, working closely with Managing Directors and Directors.
• Contribute to identify and review new business opportunities, leading the process of screening new deals with senior management for approval.
• Contribute to establish client relationships and work with clients regularly, including attending in-person client meetings.
• Lead the development of business screening memorandum to screen new transactions working with associates and analysts.
• Lead all aspects of transaction due diligence working with associates / analysts.
• Evaluate, understand, mitigate, and articulate risks associated with project financing transactions based on the due diligence.
• 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.
• Lead developing, reviewing, analyzing, and negotiating term sheets and financing documentation while seeking guidance from Managing Directors / Directors as needed.
• Lead the development of internal credit memo summarizing and articulating: commercial rational; key risks and mitigants; cashflow analysis; project contracts analysis; and counterparty credit analysis.
• Lead the 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 limited 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.

Benefits

• 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
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree