Credit / Finance Manager in London

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.

MUFG, a globally respected financial institution, is seeking a Director Credit Manager Leveraged Finance to join their London-based team. 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.

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.
• 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; modelling effective risk partnerships.
• 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.

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.

MUFG stands out as one of the world’s most respected financial groups—renowned for its stability, heritage, innovation, and commitment towards responsible banking practices. Employees benefit from an inclusive workplace culture where diversity is celebrated and collaboration encouraged. The bank invests heavily in professional development, offering access to cutting-edge training resources and mentorship programmes designed to accelerate career progression whilst supporting personal growth ambitions outside work too. Flexible working arrangements, generous pension contributions, and comprehensive wellbeing initiatives further underscore MUFG’s dedication to creating a supportive environment where everyone can flourish long-term.

If you are ready to take your career in leveraged finance credit management to new heights within a truly global institution we encourage you to apply now!