Vice President, Financial Advisory, Project Finance

Overview

In this role, you will help grow MUFG’s market-leading energy and infrastructure advisory business. You will work within ESFO’s Financial Advisory team to structure funding solutions and manage the end-to-end advisory process. You’ll engage with banks, funds, and authorities to tailor financing structures and drive deals through to close. The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, client relationships, and developing a robust advisory pipeline for diverse funding sources. This is an opportunity to contribute to MUFG’s mission of sustainable growth and trusted financial solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support advisory mandates from mandate letter to financial close, including information memoranda, financial structuring, negotiations with funders, and due diligence management.
• Develop and nurture relationships with key clients, lawyers, procuring authorities, banks, and other financial institutions.
• Coordinate with internal MUFG teams and external stakeholders to refine strategy and enhance client services.
• Contribute to business development through opportunity identification, proposal preparation, and client marketing.
• Prepare and present internal committee materials and assist in internal approvals (BCRA, Business Screening, KYC).
• Propose solutions to meet client needs in collaboration with MUFG specialist functions for tailored outcomes.
• Ensure market-leading, sound execution across deal origination, structuring, and execution.
• Coordinate with international structured finance teams and manage overseas travel as required.
• Support MUS product marketing and origination by sharing data and insights within the governance framework.

Key requirements

• Structured Finance understanding is required.
• Ability to lead on advisory mandates with senior support on complex aspects.
• Familiarity with financing documentation (e.g., CTAs) and credit/risk knowledge in structured finance.
• Multi-product experience across bank, public and private DCM; project finance modelling knowledge beneficial.
• Analytical skills to interrogate financial models; clear communication and strong interpersonal abilities.
• Language: foreign language skills (German/French/Spanish) beneficial but not essential.
• Degree level and/or relevant industry expertise.

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Clear communication
• Proactive and motivated
• Structured Finance understanding
• Knowledge of credit, risk management, market and legal aspects of structured finance
• Experience with various financing documents (CTAs)

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