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Mizuho · 1 day ago

Investment & Corporate Banking - Portfolio Management, Associate

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$87K/yr - $125K/yr

3+ years exp

Mizuho is focused on providing financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings, and capital raising globally. The Associate in Portfolio Management will be responsible for active management of the Banking Americas lending portfolio, ensuring profitability and capital optimization while advising on risk mitigation and client onboarding processes.

BankingFinancial ServicesImpact Investing

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Assist in managing the overall Banking Americas portfolio

Manage the Business Selection Committee (BSC) pipeline for capital allocation proposals to ensure that all proposals are submitted in a timely fashion and are signed off by the Portfolio Management team

Provide onboarding advisory solutions of new capital requests to Banking Americas including but not limited to:

Provide comments and observations on BSC presentations prior to final submission for committee review

Validate data entry on the profitability models to ensure that the proposed and existing transactions are modelled correctly

Guidance and advisory on profitability metrics including offering solutions to maximize/improve profitability

Point of contact for deal teams for client capital onboarding and strategic deal advisory

Non-bias scrutiny of client value propositions at the point of origination to make deal teams aware of potential challenges from the BSC that could be addressed during negotiations

Advise deal teams on achieving target risk appetite with the use of various risk mitigation tools in order to support the execution of transactions and generate ancillary cross selling opportunities for core clients

Be a center of excellence for bank profitability metrics, capital calculations, and to provide advisory and education to bankers and product partners at point of origination

Provide transparency to risk mitigation tools/costs to meet potential risk appetite thresholds ensuring costs are factored into profitability metrics

Track client and portfolio profitability to ensure BSC cross sell promises/forecasts from product partners are delivered

Monitor Banking Americas portfolio using early warning indicators for sectors and specific credits

Actively scrutinize single names and sectors post origination to identify potential credit migration risks forming proprietary views and developing recommendations

Perform fundamental credit risk deep dive assessments on sectors and specific credits triggered by early warning indicators to form a view and develop action plan

Coordinate internally with Sector Team Leaders to forecast and report Banking Americas credit charges

Regular and Ad-hoc reporting on portfolio composition and various risk metrics

Anticipate, assess and analyze event driven risk on portfolio (natural disasters, political instability, systemic shifts in industry business models)

Advise and/or manage stressed and distressed credits in the portfolio

Identify issues with transaction booking, correct errors in booking systems, and ensure that collateral protections are properly reflected in order to get the right impact to the Bank’s balance sheet and P&L

Assist with other administrative duties and projects, including the execution of live transactions, as assigned

Periodic ad-hoc projects

Qualification

Credit portfolio managementBanking products knowledgeRegulatory capital understandingCredit risk assessmentProfitability metrics analysisMulti-taskingPC skillsEffective communicationInterpersonal skillsTeam orientedOrganizational skills

Required

Eligible to work in the US

Four-year college degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or Economics or strong quantitative background

3-5 years of credit portfolio management or relevant experience

Strong understanding of banking products including documentation (loans, trade finance, leasing, securitization, project finance, etc)

Understandings of regulatory capital, RWA calculations, and Basel accord

Understanding of Credit Default Swaps, Credit Risk Insurance, Loan Sales, and other risk mitigation products

Effective oral and written communication skills

Strong PC skills, including knowledge of MS Word, Power Point, and Excel (including Capital IQ and Bloomberg)

Good interpersonal skills, team oriented person, and capacity to effectively organize and multi-task in a fast paced environment

Preferred

Cross sector expertise is a plus

Benefits

Generous employee benefits package

Discretionary bonus

Company

Mizuho

This is not your typical financial institution. It’s our people who make us a cut above.

Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN

10001+ employees

https://www.mizuhogroup.com

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