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
