Associate Manager/Manager - Trade Finance/Credit (7-18 yrs)

Looking ONLY for local Chennai candidates

Should be in Trade Finance Operations of Letter of Credit, Doc Checking, Bank Guarantees

Should be flexible with Night shifts (5:30 Pm onwards).

Individual will be required to Verify Transactions across all products including Letter of Credit, Collections, Open Account, Supply Chain Finance etc. He /She will be involved in managing the daily transactions which are received for processing as per Service Level Agreement and in accordance with policy and applicable regulations.

Responsibilities:

- Mentor associates, enable talent, provide guidance, and encourage morale and performance improvements

- Respond to Escalation emails from internal partners & business contacts

- Partner with the teams and facilitate prioritization of work as per business need

- Ensure and drive strong process controls and governance around SLA and metric management

- Interact and build rapport with Business Partners & stakeholders

- Engage key stakeholders across levels and work through building agreement across solutions

- Approve high value transactions as per agreed 'Delegation of authority'

- Identify and suitably escalate risk issues or controls gaps, work towards risk mitigations through controls enhancements and create a risk proactive team culture, following the risk framework all through.

- Adopt an innovative approach to work and continuously identify and highlight process improvement opportunities

- Ability to analyze data and come up with strategies of effective capacity utilizations

- Understand and review global regulatory/compliance policies and identify controls

- Provide Subject Matter Expertise and Guidance to the team

- Coach and train seasoned SMEs to create adequate backups.

Requirements:

Education:

- Graduation / Post Graduation - Preferably Commerce. NO BTECH

- Certifications - CDCS

Experience Range:

7-9 Years of relevant experience

Foundational Skills:

- International Trade Finance / Letters of Credit

- Business Process Excellence - Quality Assurance & Management, SOP Writing/Update Sharing, Process Map Creation - Expert

- Operational Risk - Inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems or from external events - Advanced

- Trade Finance - LC / SCF / OA / Collections / SBLC - Advanced

- Trade Finance - Basic Overview, Trade Product Knowledge, Trade Life Cycle & Other Products - Advanced

- Issues, Risks and Control Enhancements - Identification, documentation, monitoring, escalation and timely resolution of issues, risks, and controls - Advanced

- Flexible and Open-Minded - Expert

- Positive Impact and Influence - Expert

- Developing Others - Expert

- Active Listening - Expert

- Attention to Detail - Expert

- Analytical Thinking - Expert

- Critical Thinking - Expert

- Communication Skill - Verbal/Written - Expert

- Design Thinking - Expert

- Process re-engineering skills - Expert

- Customer Focus - Advanced

- Stakeholder Management & Network/Relationship Building - Advanced

- Strive for Excellence/Change Management - Advanced

- Empathy/Managing Emotions - Emotional Intelligence - Advanced

- Inclusive Leadership/Manager and Leadership Effectiveness - Advanced

- Team Building - Advanced

- Entrepreneurial Initiative - Advanced

- Conflict Management - Advanced

- Interviewing Skills - Advanced

- Negotiation Skills - Advanced

- MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) - Advanced

- Business Analysis (Translating business requirements into technical specs) - Advanced

- Process Mapping Tools - MS Visio, Aris etc. - Proficient

Desired Skills:

- Overview in Trade Finance - Expert

- Overview & Navigation of Clearpar - Expert

- Banking & Markets Knowledge - Payments, LCs, Supply Chain Finance - Advanced

- Global Payment Product/Ops knowledge - Wire Transfer, Direct Debit, ACH, Swift etc. Advanced

- Robotics - Reporting, Monitoring and Governance - Proficient

- Functional knowledge of AI/ML tools - Proficient

- Multi-Tasking - Advanced

- Building Your Personal Brand - Advanced

- Abstract Reasoning/Thinking - Advanced

- Numerical Ability - Proficient

- Collaborative Training & Communication Tools - Ex: Cisco WebEx, MS Team, Skype, Zoom etc. - Advanced

Work Timings:

- 18.30 hrs - 06.30 hrs (US Region) (Rotational)

- Week Offs - Saturday & Sunday

Job Location: Chennai