Investment Grade Finance - Capital Market Group

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
• Solid experience in investment-grade bond origination, debt capital markets execution, or fixed income syndicate
• Proven success leading bond transactions for investment-grade corporate or sovereign issuers across multiple market environments
• Experience implementing complex multi-tranche, multi-currency, and structured investment-grade financing solutions
• Proven success advising clients on market timing and structure for new debt issuances
• Experience managing transaction execution and coordinating with legal, compliance, and syndicate teams
• Track record of leading live deals and managing junior team members
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
• Expertise in investment-grade debt capital markets origination, structuring, and execution
• Proven expertise in pricing strategy, bookbuilding, and allocation decisions for benchmark bond transactions
• Demonstrated ability to advise issuer clients on capital structure, funding strategy, and market access
• Advanced knowledge of rating agency methodologies, investor segmentation, and credit market dynamics
• Experience with complex transaction structures including hybrid securities, callable formats, and cross-border issuance
• Thorough understanding of securities laws, disclosure requirements, and regulatory frameworks governing public debt offerings
• Comprehensive understanding of risk management, pricing risk, and execution risk in primary debt markets
• Extensive knowledge of market analytics and investor targeting tools
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
• Demonstrates leadership
• Communicates effectively
• Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
• Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
• Collaborates with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
• Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
• Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
• Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
• Always acts with integrity
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Leads origination and execution of investment-grade bond transactions for corporate and sovereign clients within the assigned coverage domain
• Accountable for client relationship management and origination outcomes across a defined issuer portfolio
• Develops and implements issuer financing strategies aligned with client capital structure objectives and market conditions
• Designs and structures complex bond transactions, including multi-tranche, hybrid, and cross-border formats
• Executes live transactions with full accountability for pricing, distribution, and execution quality
• Collaborates with coverage, syndicate, legal, and risk teams to deliver integrated capital markets solutions
• Assesses market conditions, investor sentiment, and competitive dynamics to advise clients on optimal issuance timing
• Enhances and optimizes origination processes, pitching frameworks, and execution playbooks
• Recommends new product structures and market entry strategies to meet evolving issuer needs
• Resolves complex transaction issues spanning structural, regulatory, and execution dimensions
• Tracks and analyzes league table performance, client wallet share, and origination pipeline metrics
• Monitors regulatory developments affecting investment-grade debt issuance and adjusts execution practices accordingly

The typical base pay range for this role is between $210-$225K depending 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

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

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.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.