Investment Banking Recruiter, Vice President

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.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Intrepid Investment Bankers has a unique opportunity for a Vice President, Recruiter that has a strategically important role in the firm’s growth plans. Intrepid is the investment banking arm of MUFG Union Bank, N.A., a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE: MUFG), one of the 10th largest financial groups in the world.

Intrepid provides M&A, capital raising and strategic advisory services to entrepreneurs and middle-market companies through dedicated banking teams with deep industry sector experience. The firm is based in Los Angeles, with additional offices in New York, Chicago, Charlotte and San Francisco.

We are seeking to add a highly talented individual to our team in Los Angeles, CA, responsible for full cycle recruitment of positions ranging from early career through executive management. This individual will work closely with the firm’s CEO, COO and report to MUFG’s Head of Talent Acquisition to execute the recruitment strategy required to support the firm’s aggressive national growth plan. The individual will collaborate with senior investment bankers to help them attract, hire, and retain best-in-class talent. The individual will be responsible for developing and executing the full lifecycle recruiting strategy to attract diverse and high performing talent at all levels, including junior, mid, and senior level roles, serving as a subject matter expert in relevant areas of talent acquisition strategies, inclusion & diversity policies, and objectives. Focus will be on sourcing and hiring talent to fill open positions, partnering to support on-campus recruiting campaigns, and successfully completing the onboarding process for candidates.

• Execute a best-in-class talent acquisition strategy that results in a continuous pipeline of qualified candidates for current and anticipated open positions.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with senior leadership, hiring managers, external recruiters, and candidates.
• Work with practice leaders to develop search strategies, and overall staffing needs for the organization.
• Consult with practice leaders on recruitment trends, target companies, innovative sourcing techniques, industry events, networking, job boards, cold calling, external research.
• Proactively identify and recruit passive candidates, and continually build a pipeline of candidates. Review all applicant resumes and sources to fit with position description and requirements; ensure a diverse candidate pool is presented.
• Position and effectively articulate the Intrepid value proposition.
• Manage the closing of the position all the way through the onboarding of successful candidates.
• Review monthly/quarterly recruitment metrics to ensure target time to fill, aging and other TAS metrics are on track.
• Demonstrate a general understanding of employment laws and regulations.
• Attend career fairs, on-campus recruiting days, and other networking events as a representative of the Intrepid.

• The successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree, and 6+ years of recruiting/sourcing experience within investment banking, preferably in the M&A sell-side middle market segment.
• Mix of agency and in-house recruiting experience preferred.
• Experience conducting searches for high visibility roles.
• Must be a team player who values accountability, integrity, quality, and has a strong sense of urgency.
• Proven track record of success within a recruitment organization.
• Understanding of Financial Services/Investment Banking industry.
• Must have creative sourcing, cold calling, and networking techniques.
• Strong business acumen. Ability to manage competing demands, prioritize and successfully meet client needs.
• Flexible nature and ability to meet changing demands in a dynamic work environment.
• Proven strength in the management and development of relationships with candidates and hiring managers.
• Superior communication skills both written and verbal, with strong attention to detail.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking databases (Workday Recruiting highly preferred), as well as Microsoft Office Products.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $150-165K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.