6 month Internship – Global Market, FX Sales Desk – January 2025

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.

Who We Are

First

Japanese banking group with more than 350 years of history, MUFG is one of the largest financial institutions in the world (A1/A/A-). With approximately 180,000 employees in more than 50 countries, MUFG is the 5th largest bank and largest non-state-owned bank in the world in total assets (USD 2.8 trillion as of December 2023).

MUFG offers its large corporate clients a wide range of financial services and products such as capital markets bonds & loans, acquisition finance, leverage finance, project finance, structured finance, FX & rates risk management, working capital finance, trade finance, cash management, etc

With around 90 employees and present in Paris for more than 50 years, MUFG Bank Paris is a branch of MUFG Bank with two types of activity:

• "Global Corporate & Investment Banking": global relationship with the main French corporate groups of the CAC 40 and SBF 120 stock exchange index
• "Japanese Corporate Banking": relationship with the subsidiaries of Japanese groups in France.

Our Business Areas

You will join the Treasury and FX Sales Department. Your job will consist in assisting the Money Market and Foreign Exchange dealers in their everyday transactions, promotions and liquidity management.

You will build excellent working relationships with internal key stakeholders within MUFG, deliver exceptional customer service under the supervision of the Money Market and FX specialists and become a trusted financial partner.

What To Expect

You will assist the FX Sales desk covering Corporates clients in different tasks such as (but not limited to):

• Assist sales in pricing FX products Vanilla/Options
• Devising FX hedging strategies
• Write daily newsletters about FX, market news, economic notes etc.
• Handling of ad-hoc requests from clients
• Analyse data around client FX trade activity (Volumes/Hit Ratio)
• Producing dashboards for reporting
• Assist sales in client on-boarding
• Assist other departments (Back-Office, Middle-Office, Risk Management) in operational issues by acting as first point of contact for Treasury processes.
• Pro-actively develops and maintains relationships with a wide range of keys contacts in transaction banking areas of MUFG.
• Operate in line with regulatory constraints and internal rules, regulations and policies.

You will also assist the MM Desk:

• Liquidity management (updates of figures in main currencies EUR, USD, GBP, JPY in order to calculate end of day liquidity; collecting of necessary information from different sources; following of “réserves obligatoires” for Banque de France)
• Financing (following on a daily basis our customer’s financing needs; reporting to the treasury manager)
• Reporting /Data Input (handling daily & monthly reports; assisting in preparation of internal meeting – collecting necessary data; helping in writing Power point documents)
• Following and reviewing KYC (Know Your Customer) files ( update of KYC files for clients and responding to Compliance requirements)

Join our Team

We look for talented, motivated and ambitious people who will be able to help drive our business forward.

Skills and Experience – Functional/Technical competencies:

• Preferably Master’s degree
• Verbal and written communication skills in French and English are essential
• Previous experience in banking or financial services or treasury corporates
• Strong analytical & quantitative skills
• Proficiency in Excel , VBA or Python is a plus
• Desired: Familiarity with Bloomberg

Would be a plus:

• Basic financial knowledge, data-processing
• Basic knowledge and operational workflows in Forex, Money Market  and Derivative products, as well as execution skills with both customers and interbank dealers
• Knowledge and technique of the treasury front systems, E-trade platform and market information vendor systems including Reuters and Bloomberg terminals
• Broader knowledge of financial markets including Forex, Bond, Swap Equity, Commodity markets, economic statistics and monetary policy framework in major central banks

Personal Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A structured and logical approach to work
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Proactive and enthusiastic self-starter
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurized environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

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.