Manager - Trade Finance (5-18 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).

Job Description:

- 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