Investment Banking - Debt Capital Markets (DCM) – Associate/Vice President

Japan Debt Capital Markets (DCM) is the industry leading team, with top league table for non-JPY bond underwriting of Japan’s leading corporate and financial institutions.

As an Associate/Vice President banker within Japan DCM team, you will be primarily focusing on assisting in the origination and execution of debt related transactions for Japanese corporates/financial institutions/sovereign supranational and agency (SSA). Main product range includes USD/EUR/GBP denominated senior bonds/bank capitals/insurance hybrids/SSA bonds/ESG bonds/Samurai bonds/liability management.

Job responsibilities

• Support day-to-day project execution and origination
• Prepare presentation materials, including global debt market update, pitch materials, pricing information and case studies
• Arrange Investor Relation activity for clients
• Build and maintaining client relationship
• Liaise with other internal and external parties on transactions (i.e. sector investment bankers, debt syndicates, DCM team in other regions, fixed income sales force, lawyers, compliance, accountants, other banks etc)
• Grow understanding of how the firm's full range of products and services can add value in different situations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Working experience in financial industry (or related)
• Strong research skills
• Strong project management capability
• Ability to tie big picture view of the markets to the identification of opportunities to issuers
• High meets expectations of attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills in English & Japanese to present ideas and concepts in a creative way
• Enthusiastic with an eagerness to learn and apply new knowledge, absorb and digest market intelligence on a daily basis
• Strong skills in Excel and PowerPoint. Bloomberg skills would be viewed positively

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ability to successfully prioritize and deliver competing requirements
• Preferably with experience in DCM

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