Analyst – Trade Finance Middle Office

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Mitsubishi Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups.  Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with around 3,000 offices in more than 50 markets.  The Group has over 180,000 employees, and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management and leasing.

MUFG aims to be the world’s most trusted financial group through close collaboration among its operating companies, and to respond to all of the financial needs of it’s clients, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

Within the Trade Finance Middle Office, assist with, and gain experience in, the monitoring of exposures to ensure approved limits are respected. Assist with, and gain experience in, the maintenance, creation and set up of all necessary controls and administrative duties [including the operational aspects of the transaction management system [‘TRAC’], required for facility and day to day operation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• With support, perform reviews of term sheets, credit applications [Ringi’s] & facility documentation from an operational perspective to ensure workability. This will ensure smooth and efficient deal processing when necessary without unnecessary delays.
• Gain experience in the review of client drawdown requests to ensure that transactions are in accordance with the terms of the approved facilities. 
• Gain experience in the review of Guarantee wording client requests in line with governing rules such as ISP 98 and URDG 758 to ensure that they respect the terms of approved facilities and that the Bank is protected from a Legal Standpoint.
• Primarily provide administrative support for all products related to the ETBO for non-commodity related business together with assistance to CSTF for commodity related business if/when required.
• Gain experience in daily liaison with respective stake holders such as clients, relationship, product managers and operational units.
• Assisting and gaining experience in the monitoring and control of the complete ETBO exposure under the present facility portfolio. This will help to ensure the correct determination of facility availability at time of new requests or enquiries, and allow decisions to be made that cause transactions to be cancelled or repaid.
• To assist with the monitoring of inward communications and prioritisation according to the importance of subject matter with an emphasis on client centricity.
• Become familiar with individual processes and business flows for each different client; with a view to taking client ownership within the team once knowledge based deemed adequate. This is an essential function necessary for client experience and knowledge level up to new or additional members joining TFMO.
• Monitor balances between Bank’s accounting system and exposure management tools for all allocated or monitored limits in order to retain an accurate record of exposure.
• To gain experience and assist with obtaining reporting from the Jasper system and helping to ensure this correctly reflects the exposure relative to the facilities under the control and management of TFMO, and that at the appropriate reconciliation periods the control systems [TRAC] are in parallel with the banks accounting system OVS.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Essential:

Previous operational experience in a Guarantees, Trade Finance related product environment.

Additional language skills [French]

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication skills

• Collaborative nature and good team working ethos.

• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment

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.