Project Finance Investment Banking - Analyst / Associate - Latin America

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. With 150,000 colleagues globally, we strive to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve, 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, our culture prioritizes putting people first, embracing diverse ideas, and collaborating toward greater innovation, speed, and agility. We invest in talent, technology, and tools to empower your career.

Join MUFG where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. This role requires working at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and one day remotely.

MUFG is an expert in project finance, supporting clients in acquiring, building, or recapitalizing assets across the power, energy, natural resources, transportation, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors. We maintain one of the most active project finance businesses in the world, consistently ranked as the #1 overall project finance bank in the Americas since 2009.

The project finance team consists of approximately 80 individuals who actively originate, structure, and execute debt project financing transactions. These transactions include bank loan arranging, senior notes placement or bookrunning, institutional loan bookrunning, and project finance advisory services, often involving interest rate and currency derivatives. The team collaborates closely with dedicated partners in MUFG’s debt capital markets and global markets teams to seamlessly deliver debt financing and risk management solutions for clients.

Responsibilities

• Model complex financial projections in Microsoft Excel, including cash flows, debt financing, and tax structures.
• Conduct detailed analysis and due diligence for new LatAm focused opportunities in the power, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors.
• Review market studies, engineering reports, financial models, financial statements, customer financial information, project contracts, and legal analyses.
• Review information pertaining to project assets, development plans, and commercial arrangements.
• Analyze credit documentation, term sheets, and work with Bank products (Loans, Interest Rate Swaps, Foreign Exchange, and Bonds) to meet client needs and objectives.
• Analyze, understand, and negotiate covenants in financing documentation, including those related to the maintenance of financial ratios and financial reporting.
• Prepare detailed documentation summarizing opportunity analysis, including expected financial results and risk analysis, for senior management and control functions.
• Support Project Finance deals and transactions from origination and diligence through to closing, liaising with the Portfolio Group using in-depth knowledge of the project finance market, credit analysis, and administration.
• Advise clients on commercial and financial structure, and operating requirements to achieve suitability for non-recourse debt financing.
• Prepare marketing materials using Microsoft PowerPoint and Word relevant to opportunities in the power, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors.
• Analyze new transactions and prepare credit applications for the internal credit team, including financial condition and projection analysis for review and approval.
• Oversee and manage internal processes required for compliance and execution, including KYC, profitability analysis, committee approvals, legal due diligence, and closing checklists.

Requirements

• Solid experience developing project finance models in Excel and strong overall quantitative skills in financial analysis and credit risk analysis.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Commerce, Finance, Engineering, or another relevant field.
• A minimum of 2 years of related Accounting or Financial Services work experience, preferably with specific experience in project finance.
• Experience with project finance transactions in the power, natural resources, energy, or transportation infrastructure sectors.
• Fluency in Spanish is required, including the ability to speak, read, and write professionally.
• Proven success working collaboratively in a team-based environment, strong communication skills, and individual accountability.

Compensation and Benefits

The typical base pay range for this role is between $115K–$175K, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role is eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation.

Our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package, which includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, and paid maternity and parental bonding leave, along with paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please see the 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. The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment, if any.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.