Trade Finance Manager

CECO Environmental is a global leader in providing sustainable solutions for industrial air, water, and energy transition. Since 1966, we’ve been addressing the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our mission is to protect people, the environment, and industrial equipment, making a tangible impact across industries like renewable energy, semiconductor manufacturing, power generation, and water treatment. As a purpose-driven company, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity, ensuring that every project we undertake creates lasting positive change.

At CECO, you’ll be part of a growing, dynamic team committed to a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable future.

As part of the CECO corporate team, you will play a key role in supporting the continued growth and success of our global family of brands. Whether working in finance, HR, IT, accounting, marketing, or another corporate function, your expertise will help drive efficiency and innovation across our organization. By joining CECO, you’ll be part of a company committed to protecting the environment and enhancing industrial operations, all while fostering a collaborative and purpose-driven work environment.

The Trade Finance Manager will lead and support corporate trade finance activities for the organization on a global basis, with primary responsibility for managing trade finance lines of credit and capacity, monthly and quarterly reporting, trade instruments, supporting import and export transactions, mitigating financial and commercial risk, and partnering with internal business leaders, banks, customers, and suppliers across multiple regions. This role is intentionally focused on corporate-side trade finance experience rather than traditional banking-only experience.

The successful candidate will bring a strong understanding of letters of credit, bank guarantees, standby letters of credit, documentary requirements, credit support, and global trade processes within a corporate environment.

This position requires a seasoned trade finance professional with 10 or more years of relevant experience, strong business judgment, and demonstrated negotiation skills. The Trade Finance Manager must be able to negotiate trade finance terms, banking arrangements, guarantees, letters of credit, and related commercial requirements across domestic and international transactions while balancing business needs, customer expectations, regional requirements, risk exposure, compliance obligations, and working capital objectives.

• Manage corporate trade finance activities related to letters of credit, standby letters of credit, bank guarantees, documentary collections, parent company guarantees, and other trade-related financial instruments.
• Serve as the corporate subject matter expert for trade finance matters, advising internal stakeholders on appropriate structures, documentation requirements, risk considerations, and commercial implications.
• Negotiate trade finance terms with customers, suppliers, banks, and internal business partners to support commercial objectives while protecting the company’s financial and contractual interests.
• Review, analyze, and approve trade finance language in customer contracts, purchase orders, bid packages, credit support requests, and related commercial agreements.
• Partner with Treasury, Finance, Legal, Sales, Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain, and Business Unit leadership to structure trade finance solutions that support global business activity.
• Provide global oversight for trade finance activities across regions, ensuring consistent standards, controls, documentation practices, and risk management approaches while adapting to local business and…