Director, Credit Manager (Leveraged Finance)

Director, Credit Manager (Leveraged Finance)

The Director, Credit Manager (Leveraged Finance) at MUFG is responsible for shaping credit strategies across various sectors while mentoring a team of credit professionals. Key requirements include extensive experience in managing complex leveraged finance portfolios and strong decision‑making under regulatory scrutiny.

What you’ll do:

As Director Credit Manager Leveraged Finance at MUFG in London, you will be entrusted with significant responsibility for shaping the future of credit management across multiple high‑impact sectors. Your day‑to‑day activities will involve mentoring a skilled team of credit professionals while exercising substantial delegated authority over major transactions, collaborating closely with relationship managers and origination teams, and engaging proactively with stakeholders across the business to drive strategic initiatives that enhance portfolio quality while ensuring rigorous adherence to compliance standards.

• Provide oversight and guidance to a team of credit professionals within the Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare Credit Team by supporting their development and ensuring high standards of analysis.
• Exercise delegated credit approval authority up to USD75 million or make well‑considered recommendations to senior management on complex transaction files while maintaining vigilant portfolio monitoring in line with internal policies and regulatory guidelines.
• Make balanced, timely, and thoughtful credit decisions that align with MUFG’s risk appetite while acting as a senior counterpart to front line relationship managers and product origination teams.
• Engage proactively with front‑line colleagues on deal‑specific or strategic developments by offering expert guidance, direction, feedback, and identifying potential red flags or breaches of policy.
• Contribute actively to the development of divisional credit strategy for relevant products, sectors, countries, or regions, including supporting work to assess risk appetite and set appropriate limits.
• Manage and oversee a diverse portfolio of credit accounts within your areas of responsibility by providing advice and direction to ensure consistently high‑quality credit analysis and decision‑making.
• Develop deep knowledge of various industries, sectors, countries, players, financial structures, and legal frameworks relevant to Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare credit while committing to ongoing learning.
• Demonstrate MUFG’s Risk Culture Pillars by taking accountability for identifying and mitigating risks; managing departmental risk; remaining curious; modelling effective risk partnerships; challenging existing practices; and embracing positive change.
• Represent the credit division at internal forums regionally and globally by sharing insights that influence decisions impacting your areas of specialism.
• Ensure full compliance with all internal risk management requirements, controls, procedures, policies, and applicable regulations through diligent personal conduct.

What you bring:

To excel as Director Credit Manager Leveraged Finance at MUFG you will bring extensive hands‑on experience managing complex leveraged finance portfolios within leading financial institutions, a proven record of exercising significant delegated credit approval authority under tight regulatory scrutiny, and exceptional analytical skills. You will communicate clearly and empathetically, guiding junior colleagues and engaging credibly with senior stakeholders across multiple functions.

• Extensive experience in leveraged finance credit management within major financial institutions or investment banks operating across EMEA markets.
• Proven track record of exercising significant delegated credit approval authority on large‑scale transactions while maintaining strict adherence to internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Exceptional analytical skills demonstrated through high‑quality report writing, portfolio oversight responsibilities, and sound decision‑making under pressure.
• Strong understanding of industry dynamics across TMT (Technology Media Telecom), Consumer & Healthcare sectors—including familiarity with financial structures unique to these markets.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities enabling you to guide teams effectively while building trusted relationships with front line managers and product origination/distribution businesses.
• Commitment to continuous professional development evidenced by ongoing learning about new industries/sectors/countries/players/legal frameworks relevant to leveraged finance credits.
• Demonstrated capability in contributing strategically at divisional level—assessing risk appetite; setting limits; influencing policy; representing interests at internal forums regionally/globally.
• Deep appreciation for compliance culture—ensuring personal conduct aligns fully with all relevant controls/procedures/regulations/policies at all times.
• Ability to model MUFG’s Risk Culture Pillars: accountability for risk identification/mitigation; curiosity; partnership‑building; willingness to challenge status quo constructively; openness toward positive change.

What sets this company apart:

MUFG stands out as one of the world’s most respected financial groups. Employees benefit from an inclusive workplace culture where diversity is celebrated, collaboration is encouraged, and flexible working arrangements are supported. The bank invests in professional development, offers cutting‑edge training resources, mentorship programmes, and comprehensive wellbeing initiatives, enabling career advancement and personal growth.

What’s next:

If you are ready to take your career in leveraged finance credit management to new heights within a truly global institution, we encourage you to apply now.

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.

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