Job Details
- Job Title: Associate
- Date: June 2026
- Department: Corporate Coverage
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Language Required : Japanese (High Fluency/ Native) , English (Business)
Position Purpose
Junior coverage banker with primary responsibility to support senior bankers. Expected 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 created Associate position within the Corporate Coverage Department. 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, including developing and adjusting pitching documents based on Senior RM's and Business Line inputs.
- Client Relationship Support: Participate in client meetings with Senior RM (and/or Product lines).
- Credit Management: Gather and analyze client-related data in preparation for 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 all KYC information and performing 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 PowerPoint.
- 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.
