Associate or Vice President, FX Institutional Sales

at  MUFG United Kingdom BTMU

DO YOU WANT YOUR VOICE HEARD AND YOUR ACTIONS TO COUNT?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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 Bank has recently re-entered the FX Sales space in London, with a dynamic and energic Sales and Trading team tasked on building out our offering to EMEA Institutional clients. This top down decision is a key pillar in the direction of travel within MUFG Bank, with the franchise energised about becoming a market leader in JPY and $Asia. This position offers the successful candidate the opportunity to be a key stakeholder in its success, and be integral in delivering a sustainable revenue source for MUFG.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Experience in FX financial markets
• Sales experience

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree educated in a technical/ numerate field ideally and/or equivalent level of relevant experience.

PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Associate (VP limit) level candidate.
• Current relationships in Bank or HF space preferred.
• Lateral thinker able to problem solve and optimise processes.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Work within a dynamic and growing team covering institutional clients (Banks/HF/RM/CBs/SWF) with global reach (ex EU).
• Act as support point of contact with Bank/Intermediary Institutions for all foreign exchange related topics, eventually leading to primary contact with a portfolio of customers to manage.
• Drawing on internal and external sources to expand, promote and position Bank FX capabilities within the context of the broader client relationship, to maximize cross-sell opportunities and ensure optimal delivery of the group’s products and services in the market place.
• Operate in line with regulatory constraints and internal rules, regulations and policies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Good team player hungry to learn and build expertise within broad client group, able to support current sales and leverage/build own client base relations.
• Communicate directly with Bank/Intermediary/HF clients to promote FX and derivatives products in order to achieve quantitative and qualitative targets, both individual and at team level.
• Coordinate with internal departments and the Bank’s relationship management team to maximize cross-sell opportunities on all facets of the clients’ cross-border exposure
• Adhere to external regulatory frameworks and internal bank policy in respect to all processes and administration.
• Generate and distribute market information relevant to our institutional clients’ activity and interests
• Ensure successful collaboration within the Trading and Research obtaining personal and group targets.

PERFORMANCE AND DUTIES

The role holder will be assessed in accordance with their employing entity’s performance framework and process with relevant input obtained from the dual hatting entity as relevant.
As duties and responsibilities change, the job description will be reviewed and emended in consultation with the role holder. The role holder will carry out other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the role as requested by their line manager or Department Head.