Vice President, Financial Advisory, Project Finance in City of Westminster

Responsibilities

• To lead, and/or provide significant support in most aspects of the execution of advisory mandates, and contribute to advisory mandates, including negotiation of the mandate letter, development of information memoranda, financial structuring and analysis, negotiations with funders, managing financial aspects of the due diligence process, development of key documentation and managing the overall funding process through to financial close.
• Managing and developing client relationships with key clients and other related parties including lawyers, procuring authorities, banks and other financial institutions.
• Managing and developing relationships with key internal stakeholders (including coverage teams, SFCO, MUS).
• Assisting in devising, refining and implementing the financial advisory strategy.
• Work with other MUFG teams to enhance the MUFG offering and client services.
• Ratings Advisory support.
• To play an active role in business development, with a view to growing the advisory pipeline, including proactively identifying potential advisory opportunities, preparation and presentation of advisory proposals and materials and ongoing ad‑hoc client marketing.
• Take an active role in the preparation of and participation in all assessments and authorisation activities, including assisting in the presentation of the transaction through the various internal approval processes (including BCRA, Business Screening and KYC).
• Propose appropriate solutions to meet client needs in conjunction, where necessary, with other specialist functions of MUFG in order to deliver a tailored solution to clients.
• Ensure that business development, structuring and execution is market‑leading, sound and appropriate.
• Coordinating with international structured finance teams.
• Prepare and present internal committee presentations/papers.
• In general, the role may require substantial overseas travel.

Securities: Through collaboration with MUS employees, facilitate the marketing and origination of transactions with your area of specialism in respect to the MUS product suite. This role does not involve direct transacting on behalf of MUS legal entities; rather, you will share data and information and attend internal and external meetings, offering views and opinions. All recommendations and final decisions around structure, credit, pricing, execution and commitment must be made by a MUS employee or a functional dual‑hat employee.

Experience & Qualifications

• Experience from a structured finance advisory/product role preferred.
• Experience gained from within a project finance bank, boutique or DCM team preferred.
• Previous experience working in structured finance essential; some M&A and rating experience beneficial.
• Pan EMEA experience of different financing documentation beneficial.

Skills & Experience

• Structured Finance understanding a requirement.
• Ability to lead on all aspects as part of a wider advisory mandate with senior support on more complex aspects.
• Familiar with different types of financing documentation (e.g., CTAs).
• Knowledge of credit, risk management, market and legal aspects of structured finance.
• Multiproduct experiences: bank, public and private DCM.
• Desirable to have a level of project finance modelling understanding.
• Analytical skills including the ability to interrogate financial models.
• Clear communication skills.
• Sound IT knowledge and skills.
• Quantitative / numerical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Education & Qualifications

• Degree level and/or relevant industry expertise.

Language Skills

• Foreign language skills (German/French/Spanish) beneficial but not essential.

Personal Requirements

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• Results driven, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• The ability to operate with urgency and dynamically prioritise work accordingly.
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• A structured and logical approach to work and ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• Good problem solving skills.
• A creative and innovative approach to work.
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
• Team player.

Flexible Working

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.