Vice President, Trading Desk Head

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 150,000 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.

Purpose of the Job:

• Provide professional trading services to all clients, develop and maintain business with the existing and new clients by partnering with sales to achieve the Bank’s revenue target.
• Execute for the best interests of the Bank and its clients.
• Assist to formulate trading strategy for the team, promoting the trading franchise and capacity to be aligned with the intrinsic value of MUFG.
• Implement department’s business plan and/or project.
• Perform any ad-hoc tasks assigned by management.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategic         

• Equip with professional markets and products knowledge to conduct the trading activities and analyze market including macroeconomic indicators for determining the Bank’s position.
• Work in partnership with colleagues in the region to share best practice, deliver an integrated service for our clients and to develop new business.
• Observe and comply with all relevant external regulations as well as internal policies, procedures and control frameworks, ensuring marketing activities are conducted within the established rules. 
• Support in developing and updating policies to ensure alignment with all relevant regulations. 
• Be responsible for all kinds of reporting department head and local management.
• Collaborate with research analysts and other team members to share markets insights and strategies

Financial

• Balance the risk and opportunities to meet individual target, manage own trading position, aligning with MUFG value, provide good service/pricing to clients and make use of the flow to generate revenue for the Bank.
• Under the supervision of the Head of Department, lead the team to achieve revenue targets, provide quality pricing to clients, balance risk and maximize return for the Bank.

Client

• Build effective relationships with key clients to develop new business and to deliver extraordinary client experiences.
• Work in partnership with various departments in the Bank to support in delivering seamless transactions to the client. Departments including but not limited to Operations. 
• Develop and maintain strong stakeholder management with key stakeholders both within MUFG and externally.
• Communicate with business line (JC/GC), head of sales and other divisions for the strategy and delivery to both S&T teammates to cooperate for filling clients request and initiate new development for our business.

People

• Demonstrate professionalism and maintain respectful and collaborative environment with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Supervise, motivate and educate the subordinates through regular meetings, daily activities and so on. To provide training and mentoring to existing and newly joined staff.
• Communicate with all segments including sales, MUS, and overseas branches for all client enquiry about related products.
• Maintain good and open communication with all the teammates to build up the trust for long term development.

Other/ Control

• Fulfill regulatory requirements on the licensing related qualification.
• Maintain good working knowledge of industry trends, products, relevant laws and regulations.
• Conduct trading activities while complying with the various internal policies and guidelines and advise Sales / assistant / structurer level.

Key Requirements

• University Bachelor’s Degree qualified. CFA Charter holder is preferable
• Desirable to have at least 10 years of working experience in banking & financial services industry
• Strong stakeholder management skills to collaborate with other departments
• Strong knowledge in global markets products, compliance and risk management including but not limited to Foreign Exchange and Derivatives and market conduct management
• Detailed understanding of the local banking regulatory environment.
• Understanding of banking products & services
• Understanding of Vietnamese & international regulations in finance, accounting, compliance, and human resources, etc.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.