Specialist, Trade Finance Operations

This role is primarily responsible for processing and/or authorizing Trade Finance transactions for International Operations including France, Singapore, UK, USA, Bahrain, KSA, Kuwait, and India while ensuring full compliance with internal procedures, regulatory requirements, operational controls and service standards. The incumbent is responsible for maintaining smooth workflow management and delivering high quality, timely and error-free services to both internal and external clients.

This role is primarily responsible for processing and/or authorizing Trade Finance transactions for International Operations including France, Singapore, UK, USA, Bahrain, KSA, Kuwait, and India while ensuring full compliance with internal procedures, regulatory requirements, operational controls and service standards. The incumbent is responsible for maintaining smooth workflow management and delivering high quality, timely and error-free services to both internal and external clients.

In addition to supporting International Operations, the role holder must demonstrate flexibility to act as a backup for UAE Trade Finance Operations ensuring uninterrupted service. This includes supporting transactions across multiple regional time zones from the UAE location, as required.

• The role requires proactive identification, assessment and mitigation of process related risks, while continuously contributing to the enhancement of operational efficiency, controls, processes and systems within the Trade Finance function.
• The incumbent is also expected to support process improvement initiatives and ensure adherence to all regulatory, compliance and risk management requirements.
• Must be flexible to work across all operational shifts including USA business hours, weekends (where required) and any other schedules necessary to meet business requirements and service commitments.

• Follow all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedure and instruction so that work is carried out in controlled and consistent manner.
• Demonstrate compliance to organization’s value and ethics at all times to support the establishment of a value drive culture within the bank.

Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability of systems, processes and practices considering global standards, productivity improvement and cost reduction.

• Assist in the preparation of timely and accurate statements and reports to meet department requirements, policies and quality standards.

The job-holder is responsible for processing or authorising (as per the delegation provided ) in a sub-section of operations, within a specific product or functional area and ensure quality and timeliness of the delivery in a cost-efficient & error-free manner, subject to high risk management and Bank’s / Regulator’s Compliance standards.

• Responsible for effectively processing/checking, verifying and authorizing trade finance transactions as per approval matrix, ensuring processing of transactions is carried out in a controlled manner.

Effectively monitoring compliance to regulatory guidelines and local/international sanctions in Trade Finance processes and improving the controls to identify/mitigate risk.

• Ensuring self and staff adhere to Standard Operating Procedures of FAB at all times and recommend/implement changes in policies, procedures, processes and systems in line with development in the industry.

Support the line manager in sustaining higher / acceptable rate of Employee Satisfaction in line with Bank Policy.

Ensure Anti money laundering, Central Bank guidelines and other internal policies / procedures are strictly followed and any…