If you are passionate and have strong desire to set and achieve challenging goals, you have found the right team!
As an Analyst/Associate within the Global Corporate Banking (GCB) team, you will assist the bankers and sales team in relationship management activities by providing consistent, high quality support. You will also play a key role in fulfilling local regulatory and firm-wide requirements. GCB provides a wide range of corporate banking services and products to Japan-headquartered companies as well as Japan-based subsidiaries of global multinational clients. You will be a trusted partner to bankers, sales and various stakeholders to ensure excellent client experience.
Job responsibilities
- Act as a liaison between the client and the firm to help establish, maintain and enhance the relationship
- Participate in client planning activities and client calls
- Assist bankers with ad hoc requests from clients, interacting across internal stakeholders
- Support client onboarding process by working with Wholesale KYC Operations (WKO) for accurate completion of Know Your Client (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) related inquiries
- Play a key role in facilitating internal processes for new transactions, including due diligence and documentation
- Assist in ensuring assigned client portfolio is kept current with all aspects of the firm’s KYC/AML requirements by conducting regular reviews of the client profile and transactions, and escalating to internal stakeholders as necessary
- Monitor credit exposure and partner with Credit Risk on credit related asks
- Play a lead role in Trade/Letter of Credit execution, including credit approval process
- Liaise with Compliance and Business Control Managers in instances of changes in policies or procedures
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Strong Banking/Financial Services background
- Understanding of relevant regulatory requirements and familiarity with compliance and KYC processes
- Proven ability to build and develop relationships. Strong internal network will be critical to success
- Excellent communication skills, with proficiency in both Japanese and English languages
- Superb attention to detail and time management skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Outstanding ethics, integrity and judgment
- Strong Microsoft office skills, including Excel and PowerPoint
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Japan Securities Dealers Association Class 1 Sales Representative
- Knowledge of corporate finance and treasury services products a plus
