Real Estate Finance Coverage Banker

The coverage banker serves listed real estate companies, REITs, and real estate funds in the greater Tokyo area. The role develops proposals for equity financing, including new share issues and secondary offerings; debt financing, including bond and convertible bond issuance; M&A, including acquisitions, business sales, integrations, and MBOs; activist-response activities; and investor relations for individual investors and overseas institutional investors. The role also covers the issuance of real estate security tokens with expected future growth potential.

The banker conducts sales activities with executives and department heads at listed companies, REITs, and real estate funds to acquire mandates. Day-to-day responsibilities include forming hypotheses that support a client’s efforts to improve corporate value, discussing those hypotheses with clients and internal stakeholders, turning them into proposals, presenting them to client decision-makers, winning engagements, and controlling the process through execution and realization.

Required qualifications include experience in client-facing business and communication skills. Corporate business experience is welcomed, particularly experience at consulting firms, M&A advisory firms, trading companies, banks, securities companies, or other financial institutions. Candidates should value teamwork and be able to coordinate with various internal and external stakeholders. Basic PC skills are required, including the ability to prepare materials using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Experience in capital markets or M&A advisory work, practical experience responding to activists, a securities analyst qualification, and business-level English are listed as additional qualifications.

The role is part of the Real Estate Finance Department. The team works with product and overseas departments and emphasizes information sharing and collaboration. The position is a regular employee role in Tokyo. Working hours are 8:40 to 17:10 with a one-hour break. Holidays include a five-day workweek on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays, and the year-end and New Year holiday period. Annual paid leave is 17 to 23 days, prorated for mid-year hires, with hourly paid leave, nursing care leave, and childcare leave programs. Smoking is prohibited during working hours. The company states that the possible scope of workplace changes includes locations designated by the company, including telework locations.