AVP, Trade International Operations

This role is primarily responsible for supervising, authorizing transactions and acting as a point of contact related to Trade Finance Unit of the respective region (France , Singapore , UK , USA , Bahrain , KSA , Kuwait and India) and to operate during the respective country time zone from UAE location and ensuring compliance with all internal procedures, operational controls, smooth workflow and delivery of high quality / timely service to the clients.

Whilst timely analysing and addressing any process related risk; this role is also responsible for developing and maintaining efficient processes and systems for Trade Finance function in the Bank.

• Organize and supervise the work of the assigned team to ensure that all work within a specific area of the activity is carried out in an efficient manner, which is consistent with operating procedures and policy.
• Provide on-the-job training and constructive feedback to assigned team to support their overall development.
• Promote the organization’s values and ethics in all activities within the team in order to support the establishment of a value drive culture within the bank.

• Monitor the financial performance of a given area of activity versus budgets and ensure all activities are carried out in line with the approved guidelines while promptly reporting on any variances to management.

• Provide inputs and implement policies, systems and procedure for the assigned team so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements, fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.
• Demonstrate compliance to organization’s value and ethics at all times to support the establishment of a value drive culture within the bank.

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

• Prepare/review sectional statements and reports timely and accurately to meet department requirements, policies and quality standards.

• Responsible for effectively processing/checking, verifying and authorizing transactions as per approval matrix, ensuring processing of transactions is carried out in a controlled manner.
• Maintaining the highest level of internal and external customer satisfaction standards
• Minimizing operational risks for the Bank by ensuring that all transactions processed comply fully with underlying customer or internal instructions and that these instructions are properly processed.
• 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 at all times and recommend/implement changes in policies, procedures, processes and systems in line with development in the industry.
• Participate and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base.
• Support in preparation, control testing for BIA, RCSA, as per Risk and audit management policy
• Monitoring and reconciliation of Internal/Income /Suspense account and Attestation of the accounts as per bank policy.
• Developing and introducing robust tools/processes to identify/mitigate operational risks attached to the department.
• Support the development and implementation of policies / procedures / practices towards Cost efficiency.
• Support the line manager in sustaining higher / acceptable rate of Employee Satisfaction in line with…