Associate, Investment Grade Debt Capital Markets

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 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.

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.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Education

• Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable

Certifications

• Relevant regulatory certifications

Work Experience

• Experience within a complex financial services environment providing investment-grade bond origination, debt capital markets execution, or syndicate coverage
• Experience with structuring and pricing public and private debt issuances for corporate and sovereign clients

Functional Skills

• Proficient in investment-grade bond structuring, pricing, and execution across multiple currencies and formats
• Comprehensive understanding of credit markets, rating agency processes, and investor dynamics
• Solid understanding of regulatory frameworks governing public debt offerings, including disclosure and securities law requirements
• Experience using financial modeling tools, deal management systems, and pricing analytics platforms
• Well-developed understanding of issuer financing strategies and capital structure optimization
• Proficiency in coordinating multi-stakeholder transaction processes

Foundational Skills

• Communicates effectively
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Exercises sound judgment, prioritizes effectively, and strives for continuous improvement
• Effectively collaborates with colleagues
• Leverages available technology to drive efficiency and results
• Understands and applies industry trends and best practices
• Exhibits optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Engages inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity

Responsibilities

• Manages workstreams across live investment-grade bond transactions, from mandate through pricing and closing
• Develops financing proposals, structuring recommendations, and pricing strategies for corporate and sovereign issuers
• Creates client-ready pitch materials and tailored capital markets solutions reflecting issuer objectives and market conditions
• Conducts detailed analysis of market windows, comparable transactions, and investor demand to inform execution recommendations
• Evaluates structural alternatives including tenor, format, currency, and covenant packages
• Documents transaction terms, internal approvals, and post-deal reviews in compliance with internal policies
• Monitors primary market activity, new issue pipelines, and secondary trading levels relevant to coverage clients
• Identifies origination opportunities through ongoing dialogue with coverage bankers and client analysis
• Reviews offering documentation, marketing materials, and pricing memoranda for accuracy and completeness
• Resolves transaction execution issues by working closely with internal and external counterparties
• Recommends process improvements for deal execution and client coverage workflows

Pay and benefits

The typical base pay range for this role is $160K-$247K on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation.

Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

• MUFG Benefits Summary

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.