Trade Finance Execution & Delivery

Main responsibilities will be to assist the Execution & Delivery team to service, monitor and maintain Global Transaction Banking Americas (GTBA) New York's trade finance portfolio in support of North American Banking (NAB) and other business unit clients, keep track of outstandings and collateral, liaise with correspondent global financial institutions, assist structuring of documentary and standby letters of credit including back-to-back SBLCs and Bank Guarantees and letter of credit confirmations, assist in negotiating documentation with clients, correspondent banks and our branches in conjunction with Legal Unit. 
 
This position also requires assisting the Trade Finance account officers with the processing and monitoring of the LC portfolio activity, daily operations, pricing models and Return on Risk Assets (RORA) schedules, and assisting with the processing of Loans and Letters of Credit activity as needed. 
 
Role and Responsibilities: 

• To be one of GTBA's primary points of contact for enquiries with regard to basic trade finance products of Letter of Credit issuances, LC confirmations, Forfaiting and L/G Risk Participations, and a secondary contact for Supply Chain Finance, receivable purchasing (Invoice Discount Finance) and Payment Guarantee products. Assist in the promotion, origination, structuring, negotiating and execution of the above Letter of Credit products, and as needed, the other trade finance products. 

• Coordinate and cooperate with colleagues in other divisions for marketing, credit applications, administration and execution of deals. 

• Pursue any necessary research and basic analytics with regard to risk analysis, financial statement analysis and cash flow modeling, if required for assessing the risk of the products noted above, and/or with relation to Trade Finance clients. 

• Assist the corporate banking departments as needed in the preparation of credit applications and other internal documents as well as obtaining appropriate internal approvals in a timely manner for transactions to be pursued, including customer registration, KYC, credit rating and other system registrations required in preparing credit applications. 

• Work collaboratively across teams, including but not limited to Sales, Credit, Legal, Operations. 

• Assist Corporate and FI Clients, Relationship Managers and Sales/Structuring team in drafting/reviewing of Documentary and Standby Letters of Credit and preparation of LC applications. 

• Prepare and maintain outstanding Loan and Letter of Credit activity reports. 

• Assist Relationship Managers in the marketing of Letters of Credit and other trade finance products. 

• Assist as needed in negotiating Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreements. 

Experience/qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree (business administration, finance); 

• Minimum 3 years of