Director, Emerging Market Credit Trading - US Overnight Trader

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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.

Job Overview / Responsibilities:

• Candidate to handle overnight trading activity of EM Credit markets for Asia & EMEA based trading teams.
• Responsible for managing market, credit & operational risk across electronic trading platform
• Partnering closely with sales & research teams to deliver timely commentary, trade ideas, market insights.
• Provide daily feedback to DCM, global sales & trading teams on market activity during US hours.
• Proactively provide hybrid sales/trading coverage of US based EM Institutional Investors
• Ensure performance and risk of strategies are aligned with firm’s risk framework and appetite
• Grow market-share, profitability of business and expand products traded & marketed as business develops

Job Requirements & Skills:

• Strong quantitative skills, including thorough credit analysis, electronic trading, Bloomberg
• Strong interpersonal skills, working with a team and a strong communicator
• Work closely with operations, support, technology to ensure systems and activity operates safely, diligently focused on all operational risk components of business
• Deep understanding of credit and fixed income market structure, rules & regulations

Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, MBA and/or CFA a plus
• A minimum of 5 years of related Credit Trading work experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• Strong decision-making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgment
• A pro-active, motivated approach
• The ability to operate with urgency, prioritize work accordingly and multi-task
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Relevant Regulatory Licensing preferred (Series 7,63)

The typical base pay range for this role is between $275K - $300K 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