Job Description

Job Title: Associate 

Date: 2025, June 

Department: Corporate Coverage

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Position Purpose

Junior coverage banker with primary responsibility to support senior bankers.  Expect him/her to eventually take on the responsibility of building and maintaining relationships with clients. 

Key Responsibilities

BNP Paribas Tokyo Branch is seeking to fill a newly Associate position within Corporate Coverage Department as a replacement. Coverage is a product-neutral business (or front office) unit dedicated to large and high-profile Japanese clients to promote a large array of multi-product locally and on a global basis.

Marketing Support 

-Support Senior Relationship Manager (‘Senior RM’) in their marketing strategy: 

-Develop and adjust pitching documents based on Senior RM's and Business Line inputs 

Client Relationship Support 

-Participate to client meeting with Senior RM (and/or Product lines) 

Credit Management

-Gather and analyse client related data in preparation of the Annual Credit Client Review and Client Action Plan process 

Maintain Client Intelligence

-Responsible for updating central data collection tools based on knowledge gathered from Senior RM and external sources during pitches 

Transaction Support

-Contractual documentation review, coordination with Legal/Compliance (for Loans, ISDA etc.)

KYC/Compliance Process Management

-Proactively involve in external/internal coordination for client due diligence process including collecting of all KYC information (ie, address, turnover, balance sheet, key contacts, etc) 

-Perform research based on the bank’s data resources to document compliance processes and KYC.

Competencies (Technical / Behavioral)

-Communicative skill, fluent both in Japanese and English

-Basic computer skills in Excel, Word and Power point 

-Self-confident with a strong personality 

-Creativity, sense of initiative, autonomy and “can do” attitude

-Aptitude to identify and develop business opportunities 

-Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work on different topics in parallel 

-Ability to teamwork and to coordinate transversal deal teams (Business Lines, different geographic sites, etc.) 

-High ethical standards