**Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?** Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. 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 (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do. We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings. Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com. The Loan Participation team is responsible for managing MUFG’s operational obligations as lender across a portfolio of Syndicated and Bilateral Loans, and for managing events on each Facility in accordance with Facility Agreements, internal rules and Market Practice. **MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE** Loan Participations are part of the Transaction Processing Unit, within the Operations Division for EMEA. Transaction Processing provides efficient and accurate processing, ranging from single-touch, single entry to multi-touch, complex transaction processing. The Loan Participation team is responsible for managing MUFG’s operational obligations as lender across a portfolio of Syndicated and Bilateral Loans, and for managing events on each Facility in accordance with Facility Agreements, internal rules and Market Practice. The team must deal with scheduled and unscheduled events, issues and queries, these must be dealt with quickly and efficiently, and these must be administered in accordance with the relevant Facility Agreement and procedure. The Loan Participations Assistant Vice President will monitor and control daily work flows including assigning tasks to the Associates to ensure completion of daily obligations. The Assistant Vice President will ensure that the booking of Loans, Fees, Bank income, Guarantees, Commitments, Risk and Sub Participation is completed in accordance with Head Office Rules, Regulations, Contracts/Agency Agreements and Compliance policy, including supporting the Loan Participation associates with their daily tasks and acting as a first point of escalation. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** + Provide support and guidance to junior team members to facilitate the completion of daily obligations and new deal capture in accordance with head office rules and regulation. + Responsible for the input and/or accurate verification of junior team member’s work. + Provide assistance, as requested, to line management in the control of daily work flows to ensure timely completion of daily obligations. + Provide first line escalation to junior members of the team for issue resolution and using knowledge, solve routine issue and queries, escalating where necessary for decision making. + Assist line management in the creation, review and maintenance of policies and procedures to ensure accuracy. + Provide general support to facilitate the implementation of projects as and when necessary + Communicate and negotiate with a variety of Stakeholders, including Front Office, Lenders and Borrowers in order to administer events on a portfolio of loans. + Act as first point of contact for issue resolution and escalation. Using specialised knowledge to solve routine issues and answer queries. Escalating any issues to the Associate Director as required. + Build relationships throughout MUFG to establish a peer network, gather relevant information and help to ensure effective inter-departmental collaboration. + Operate as product specialist providing subject matter expertise where required **WORK EXPERIENCE** + Previous experience of working in a manual operations environment - Essential + Experience of working in a fast-moving environment under time pressure whilst retaining strong attention to detail. - Essential **SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE** Functional / Technical Competencies: + Previous experience of Loan Operations - Essential + Strong computer literacy skills, Microsoft office etc.- Essential Education / Qualifications: + A level or equivalent education is essential. - Beneficial + Bachelor’s degree is preferable. - Beneficial + Equivalent experience will be considered. - Beneficial **PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS** + Excellent communication skills + Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability + A proactive, motivated approach. + The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly + Strong decision making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement + A structured and logical approach to work + Strong problem solving skills + A creative and innovative approach to work + Excellent interpersonal skills + The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines + Excellent attention to detail and accuracy + A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment + Good Microsoft Office skills Please note, MUFG operate a hybrid working model - 3 days office based (London)/2 days wfh We 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. At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them! **Our Culture Principles** + Client Centric + People Focused + Listen Up. Speak Up. + Innovate & Simplify + Own & Execute