Team Assistant, Global Corporate & Investment Banking Division

Team Assistant, Global Corporate & Investment Banking Division

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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.

Would you like to work for one of the World's largest banks in an exciting, dynamic and international environment?

We are currently recruiting for a Team Assistant for our Global Corporate & Investment Banking Division in Amsterdam.

About MUFG

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,000 locations in more than 40 countries. The Group has about 120,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to “be the world’s most trusted financial group” through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

About MUFG in the European Economic Area

Following the decision taken by the UK in 2016 to leave the European Union, MUFG has taken all of the necessary steps to ensure the continuation of all services to clients, regardless of their location. Clients located in the European Economic Area (EEA) access services through MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. as well as MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.

About MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V.

MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. (MBE) is a fully-owned subsidiary of MUFG Bank, headquartered in Amsterdam. With offices throughout Europe, our teams provide clients with comprehensive financing solutions spanning Coverage & Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Transaction Banking, using MUFG’s global reach to provide bespoke solutions. With 73 green, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bond tranches in 2021 and 51 sustainability-linked loans in EMEA in 2021, MUFG is committed to supporting clients to achieve sustainable business growth.

Your impact at MUFG

You will support primarily the Team Heads in GCIB Benelux (the GCIB NL Platform Manager, the Head of Benelux Corporate Coverage and the Head of FI MBE), and also, as need, the Products Team Heads, on all daily business such as key meeting preparation and schedules, organising events, travel booking and refunds. You will be a key pillar for the team in our initiatives to improve MUFG visibility and brand positioning in The Netherlands, incl. marketing activities and client reception. You will also take care of the internal administrative task required, including certain reporting to London where applicable.

The role includes the following:

• Organise client and internal meetings (physically as well as over videoconferencing) and be first point of contact for visitors, coordinating with the different business lines at the Bank and developing a good relationship with the assistants of our corporate clients and our other internal departments, incl. other MUFG EMEA branches.
• Coordinate the Senior Management visits (Heads of GCIB EMEA, GCIB EU and others) to Amsterdam and building a strong partnership with their P.A.
• Create and update on a regular basis data bases to be used e.g. for transaction pipeline management or a more active sharing of marketing information that would contribute to increase MUFG brand positioning as well as coordinate with internal communications to gather materials.
• Prepare and manage business trips, coordinating with the travel agency and with GCIB Management (as may be applicable) to gather all approvals on time.
• Manage the administration and follow-up of the budget expense assigned to GCIB teams, alerting the respective Head of expected or potential deviations.
• Take care of the regular reporting of specific requests coming from Amsterdam, London such as: schedule of client meetings and activity reports.
• Take care of the regular printing and binding of client pitches, as requested by the EMEA front office / product teams and taking initiatives to improve the quality of the marketing materials.
• Support GCIB teams in specific back or middle office request when needed.
• Provide proactive support of GCIB on internal and external presentations / run market research and collect internal input from product teams.
• Provide ideas on how job related processes can be processed more efficiently.
• Support external and internal marketing.
• Assist in daily office management in Amsterdam and be first point of contact for internal and external service providers.

In order to be successful in the role, you will need the following:

Skills and experience:

• Higher level degree of education in University or equivalent
• 3-5 years’ work experience in a similar position.
• Language skills: English and Dutch (fluent and professional level)
• Software skills: PowerPoint (ability to deliver high impact pitches), Excel, Word, Outlook, MS-Teams
• Proactivity
• Customer Focus
• Professionalism and Teamwork
• Collaborate and Build Partnerships
• Communicate Effectively and Professionally
• Accountability and time management capability
• Ability to prioritise tasks according to deadlines and importance

Personal requirements:

Integrity and Responsibility

• Balance Risk with Opportunity
• Customer Focus
• Demonstrate Global Perspective

Professionalism and Teamwork

• Drive For Results
• Collaborate and Build Partnerships
• Communicate Effectively and Professionally

Challenge Ourselves To Grow

• Influence and Inspire Others
• Lead Change & Seek Continuous Improvement
• Think Strategically
• Manage and Develop Talent

What do we have to offer:

We offer you a role in one of the largest banks of the world in a growing and international environment. You have various opportunities to develop yourself and we will support you with that by offering various training and development possibilities.

• We take into account your home situation and your ambitions and help you to balance work and private life.
• Monthly team events.
• To work in an ambitious, international environment with colleagues from different countries and cultures, who strive for the best.

Besides that we will offer you:

• Gross salary based on experience and consistent with the market
• 8% holiday allowance and 13th month payment.
• 30 vacation days per year. Optional you can buy 15 additional days.
• Commuting allowance based on annual public transport 2nd class, most economical way, or € 0.23 per km with a max of 75km one way.
• €5.00 net remote working compensation per day, with a maximum of €60.00 per month.
• Possibility to order a mobile phone (up to €800,-)
• Possibility to order Office Equipment’s for the home office, (up to €500,-)
• Remote Working Policy i.e. Working From Home (WFH) and Remote Working in another Country.
• Bicycle plan (fiscal benefit)
• Company fitness (fiscal benefit)
• Mental health workshops and budget for external courses (i.e. Dutch language classes).
• Employee contribution towards Pension insurance (max 5%, currently 2%), our pension scheme is based on a defined contribution scheme.
• Training & development possibilities paid by the bank

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.