Vice President, Trade Finance Sales, Transaction Banking

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 6th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 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.MUFG has a developing and thriving Transactional Banking business, headquartered in Tokyo and spanning all continents. Transaction Banking, EMEA (incorporating Europe, Middle East and Africa) forms part of MUFG’s Global Transaction Banking Division.Our key responsibilities are to drive regional business and support global and regional clients with Transaction Banking solutions for Cash and Liquidity Management, Foreign Exchange, Trade and Working Capital through a comprehensive suite of proprietary and 3rd party digital channels. We support our local and international cash management services for our Corporate, FI and NBFI client base.Transaction Banking EMEA consists of Trade, Working Capital, Cash and Liquidity Management solutions for our chosen client base and comprises of product, sales, implementation, client services, planning and risk functionsNUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTSn/aMAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLEDirect responsibility as a Business Development Manager – “BDM” (Trade and Working Capital Finance) for working with coverage bankers and product partners in growing the baseline of Transaction Banking EMEA’s business with a designated portfolio of existing clients (“sales”) and to identify and develop new client and business acquisition (“origination”) across a mix of global corporates, FI and NBFI clients primarily based in Europe and Africa but managed out of the UKRole holder will be a SME in trade and working capital finance solutions and applicable UK and/European regulatory landscape. The Sales BDM is a key transaction banking product contact point for coverage partners and clientsKEY RESPONSIBILITIES‘

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– Grow the baseline of trade finance revenues and enhance returns from existing clients in a designated portfolio to meet individual and EMEA team regional/booking center targets in addition to origination of the same into the MUFG global network.‘Origination’

– Working with the coverage partners across the EMEA region to identify and acquire new trade and working capital clients and new to bank business opportunities with existing clients in a designated portfolio to meet individual and EMEA team regional/booking center and global ‘network’ targetsDefine and execute client strategy for a designated client portfolio including account and wallet planning progression, identifying key targets and focus solutions in collaboration with coverage and product partnersAchieve individual pipeline targets and demonstrate role model pipeline management skills and behaviors across all trade and working capital products and solutionsDiversify the revenue source of a designated client portfolio by cross selling the entire suite of trade and working products and avoiding selling just one or two products in pipelines and mandated businessManage the process of responding to regional and global RFIs/RFPs on a designated client portfolio while coordinating input from across the GTB functions and regionsDevelop strong, effective working relationships across all key stakeholder groups, including transaction banking product, client implementation, risk, coverage, compliance, legal etc. within EMEA and across the other regionsBe the first line of defense in the mitigation of all trade and working capital deal related matters on a designated client portfolio pertaining to compliance, legal and risk and to share learnings within the wider Transaction Banking UK sales team. Escalate any supposed weaknesses or breaches and work with appropriate colleagues to pro-actively contribute to the continual improvement of our risk identification and management framework and processesFluency in industry, risk, technology and funding issues impacting treasury, finance, procurement and risk elements of corporate and NBFI treasury, finance and procurement centers. Working capital fluency, identification of strategies and collaboration across the bank product partners outside Transaction Banking to deliver a one MUFG propositionFormulate and provide coaching and/or training to appropriate team members and internal stakeholders to ensure the continual up-tiering of the level of understanding of trade and working capital within MUFG and also the sophistication of our planning, sales and origination effortsRepresent MUFG trade and working capital at internal and external industry and client eventsWORK EXPERIENCEA minimum of 7 - 10 years Vice President level trade and working capital sales experience at a Tier 1 global financial institutionProven track record of adapting to different operating environment and market conditionsExperience of senior client global corporate / MNC and FIG sales and management within a comparable trade and working capital sales roleDemonstrated revenue growth across a 2-year business cycle and ongoing enhancement of critical factors such as new to bank revenue, utilization, balance sheet optimization and diversification of cross sell revenueSME knowledge of European, African and Asia markets including competitive landscape

Preferred:Experience within transaction banking environments and use of emerging technology solutions an advantageSKILLS AND EXPERIENCEFunctional / Technical Competencies:Strong technical knowledge across all trade and working capital finance products, regulatory and industry trendsSolid experience with platforms – bank owned as well as third party and emerging working capital finance themes and technologyStrong knowledge of changing regulatory and industry climate in terms of Basel IV etc.Developed influence and negotiation skillsStrong communication and able to operate at all levels – written, verbal, presentation material etc.Strong understanding of risk and market environments across the trade and working capital spectrum – including credit, legal, compliance, implementation, operations etc.Strong analytical skills to aggregate, collate and make actionable insights from complex clients and market data to identify opportunity, client efficiencies and bank/client mutual benefitExperienced in active participation in business and credit committee reviewsEducation / Qualifications:Minimum of BA degree required in Finance, Business, Economics or related disciplinePreferred:PERSONAL REQUIREMENTSResults driven, with a strong sense of accountabilityA proactive, motivated approach.The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordinglyStrong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgementA structured and logical approach to workA creative and innovative approach to workExcellent interpersonal skillsThe ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlinesExcellent attention to detail and accuracyA calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized environmentStrong numerical skillsWe 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.Talentify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.Talentify provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities, including disabled veterans. Request assistance at accessibility@talentify.io or 407-000-0000.Federal law requires every new hire to complete Form I-9 and present proof of identity and U.S. work eligibility.An Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT) will score your job-related skills and responses. Bias-audit and data-use details: www.talentify.io/bias-audit-report . NYC applicants may request an alternative process or accommodation at aedt@talentify.io or 407-000-0000.

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