Director, Credit Manager (Leveraged Finance)

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 150,000 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.

This pivotal role offers you the opportunity to shape credit strategy across high‑profile sectors including Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare within EMEA. As part of MUFG’s collaborative and supportive environment, you will play a key role in guiding a talented team of credit professionals, influencing strategic decisions, and ensuring robust risk management practices.

The organisation is renowned for its commitment to professional growth, knowledge sharing, and fostering an inclusive culture where your expertise will be valued and your contributions recognised. With exposure to complex transactions and the chance to represent the credit division at both regional and global forums, this position provides an exceptional platform for career advancement within one of the world’s leading banks.

Join MUFG’s highly regarded EMEA Credit Team in a senior leadership capacity, overseeing critical portfolios in Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare sectors while collaborating with top‑tier professionals across the region. Benefit from a culture that prioritises continuous learning, professional development, and knowledge sharing—empowering you to expand your industry expertise and influence divisional strategy on a global scale.

Enjoy working in an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives, encourages proactive risk management, and supports flexible working opportunities tailored to help you thrive both professionally and personally.

What you’ll do

As Director Credit Manager Leveraged Finance at MUFG in London, you will be entrusted with significant responsibility for shaping the future of credit management across multiple high‑impact sectors. Your day‑to‑day activities will involve mentoring a skilled team of credit professionals while exercising substantial delegated authority over major transactions. You will collaborate closely with relationship managers and origination teams to provide expert input on deal structuring and risk assessment.

By engaging proactively with stakeholders across the business—both regionally and globally—you will help drive strategic initiatives that enhance portfolio quality while ensuring rigorous adherence to compliance standards. Your ability to foster knowledge sharing within your team will be crucial as you contribute to developing divisional strategies that support MUFG’s broader objectives.

Success in this role requires not only technical excellence but also strong interpersonal skills as you build relationships with colleagues throughout the organisation.

• Provide oversight and guidance to a team of credit professionals within the Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare Credit Team by supporting their development and ensuring high standards of analysis.
• Exercise delegated credit approval authority up to USD75 million or make well‑considered recommendations to senior management on complex transaction files while maintaining vigilant portfolio monitoring in line with internal policies and regulatory guidelines.
• Make balanced, timely, and thoughtful credit decisions that align with MUFG’s risk appetite while acting as a senior counterpart to front line relationship managers and product origination teams.
• Engage proactively with front line colleagues on deal‑specific or strategic developments by offering expert guidance, direction, feedback, and identifying potential red flags or breaches of policy.
• Contribute actively to the development of divisional credit strategy for relevant products, sectors, countries, or regions—including supporting work to assess risk appetite and set appropriate limits.
• Manage and oversee a diverse portfolio of credit accounts within your areas of responsibility by providing advice and direction to ensure consistently high‑quality credit analysis and decision‑making.
• Develop deep knowledge of various industries, sectors, countries, players, financial structures, and legal frameworks relevant to Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare credit while committing to ongoing learning.
• Demonstrate MUFG’s Risk Culture Pillars by taking accountability for identifying and mitigating risks; managing departmental risk; remaining curious; modelling effective risk partnerships; challenging existing practices; and embracing positive change.
• Represent the credit division at internal forums regionally and globally by sharing insights that influence decisions impacting your areas of specialism.
• Ensure full compliance with all internal risk management requirements, controls, procedures, policies, and applicable regulations through diligent personal conduct.

What you bring

To excel as Director Credit Manager Leveraged Finance at MUFG you will bring extensive hands‑on experience managing complex leveraged finance portfolios within leading financial institutions. Your background should include direct involvement in approving or recommending large transactions under tight regulatory scrutiny.

You are adept at synthesising detailed market intelligence into actionable insights that inform both tactical decisions on individual deals as well as broader strategic planning efforts. Your communication style is clear yet empathetic—enabling you not only to mentor junior colleagues but also engage credibly with senior stakeholders across multiple functions.

A passion for continuous learning ensures you remain current on evolving sector trends while your unwavering commitment to compliance safeguards organisational integrity. Above all else your approachability fosters trust among peers who rely on your guidance during periods of change or uncertainty.

• Extensive experience in leveraged finance credit management within major financial institutions or investment banks operating across EMEA markets is essential for success in this role.
• Proven track record of exercising significant delegated credit approval authority on large‑scale transactions while maintaining strict adherence to internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Exceptional analytical skills demonstrated through high‑quality report writing, portfolio oversight responsibilities, and sound decision‑making under pressure.
• Strong understanding of industry dynamics across TMT (Technology Media Telecom), Consumer & Healthcare sectors—including familiarity with financial structures unique to these markets.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities enabling you to guide teams effectively while building trusted relationships with front line managers as well as product origination/distribution businesses.
• Commitment to continuous professional development evidenced by ongoing learning about new industries/sectors/countries/players/legal frameworks relevant to leveraged finance credits.
• Demonstrated capability in contributing strategically at divisional level—assessing risk appetite; setting limits; influencing policy; representing interests at internal forums regionally/globally.
• Deep appreciation for compliance culture—ensuring personal conduct aligns fully with all relevant controls/procedures/regulations/policies at all times.
• Ability to model MUFG’s Risk Culture Pillars: accountability for risk identification/mitigation; curiosity; partnership‑building; willingness to challenge status quo constructively; openness towards positive change.

What sets this company apart

MUFG stands out as one of the world’s most respected financial groups—renowned for its stability heritage innovation commitment towards responsible banking practices. Employees benefit from an inclusive workplace culture where diversity is celebrated collaboration encouraged every voice heard regardless background or tenure.

The bank invests heavily in professional development offering access cutting‑edge training resources mentorship programmes designed accelerate career progression whilst supporting personal growth ambitions outside work too. Flexible working arrangements generous pension contributions comprehensive wellbeing initiatives further underscore MUFG’s dedication creating supportive environment where everyone can flourish long‑term.

As part global network spanning continents you’ll enjoy unparalleled opportunities connect learn share best practice alongside some brightest minds industry—all united common purpose delivering sustainable value clients communities alike.

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.