Treasury & Trade Finance Manager

**Location**
- Singapore, Central Singapore**Job Type**
- Permanent**Salary**
- $8,000 - $12,000 Per Month**Date Posted**
- 2 hours agoAdditional Details

**Job ID**
- 134431**Job Views**
- 1Roles & Responsibilities

**Job Purpose**:
The Treasury & Trade Finance Manager would be responsible to manage the Trade Finance Function for Trading Businesses in Singapore. The position is part of the Regional Treasury Centre Team at Singapore and would work in very close co-ordination with Global Trade Finance Desk in Geneva.

This role requires good technical knowledge of trade finance, along with communication skills, written and oral, to be able to address all aspects, directly or indirectly linked to the duties, with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to Banks, in-House Traders and Operations teams in Asia.

The Trade Finance Manager would also be responsible for managing various discounting programs in the region.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To provide appropriate technical and professional advice and efficient support to all business units with regards to all trade finance related matters
- Manage the TF banking relationship along with Treasury Team to source most competitive pricing for Trade Finance
- To support the daily trade operational activities for all business units such as Letter of Credit (LC), confirmation, discounting of export bills, open account receivables, and monitor payment due date, etc
- Source for confirming/negotiating banks for Export LC and liaise with banks/business units for the reservation of lines
- Work closely with Business units to identify Opportunities to reduce working capital through Receivable discounting, Credit insurance, inventory financing structure.
- Liaise closely with trade operators and banks on LC terms and all trade finance matters such as LC amendments, LC and LOI, etc
- Working in coordination with Global Trade Finance Desk based in Geneva
- Ensure the validity of the discrepancies highlighted by banks
- Management reporting for all trade finance activities through various systems
- Provide backup role for cash management and treasury operations.

**Education, Experience and Skills**:

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and/or Finance

**Experience**:

- Extensive understanding of the trade finance market
- Technical knowledge of Trade Finance Instruments like LCs/ SBLCs/ BGs etc
- 8 to 10 Years’ experience in a corporate treasury environment (Commodity Trading Company is a plus) or in similar role.
- Extensive knowledge of data management, for Treasury in particular, is required

**Skills**:

- Strong team player
- Enthusiastic, dynamic personality with comfort in a complex multinational work environment
- Able to work independently under tight deadlines and constraint
- Must have displayed strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to work in a semi-manual environment that requires enhancements
- Possess highest standards of integrity and reliability
- Fluent in English and Mandarin (written and oral) - Any additional languages considered as advantage.

**Core Competencies**:
Customer Focus
- Strong external /internal customer orientation
- Ability to get and maintain trustful relationship with customer
- Good Interpersonal skills; experience with providing customer satisfaction

Communication
- Listens well and shares ideas /solutions
- Very good presentation skills
- Effective communicator across all audiences, including senior business executives

Teamwork
- Seeks involvement and input from other people
- Team player with distributed teams

Initiative
- Self starter
- Proactive, drives processes and tasks to achieve results

Innovation
- Comes up with resourceful ideas and solutions
- Able to promote innovative ideas and technologies

Ownership & Accountability
- Takes ownership of own decisions and actions

Management
- Natural leader inspires confidence
- Gives timely, constructive and specific feedback
- Able to grow and develop teams

Detail orientation
- Organised, methodical
- Good attention to detail
- Pragmatic

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treasury

trade

finance

manager