Director, Credit Manager (Leveraged Finance)

We are seeking a Director Credit Manager Leveraged Finance to join our London‑based team at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). This senior leadership role will guide a team of credit professionals and shape credit strategy across Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare sectors in EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and guidance to a team of credit professionals within the Leveraged Finance, TMT, and Consumer & Healthcare Credit Team, supporting their development and ensuring high standards of analysis.
• Exercise delegated credit approval authority up to USD 75 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.

Qualifications

• 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 as well as product origination and distribution businesses.
• Commitment to continuous professional development evidenced by ongoing learning about new industries, sectors, countries, players, and 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 and globally.
• Deep appreciation for compliance culture—ensuring personal conduct aligns fully with all relevant controls, procedures, regulations, and policies at all times.
• Ability to model MUFG’s Risk Culture Pillars: accountability for risk identification and mitigation; curiosity; partnership‑building; willingness to challenge the status quo constructively; openness towards positive change.

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, 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 commitments and legal obligations.

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