Trade Finance Advisory (TFA) Professional

Key Areas of Responsibility:

As the member for the Trade Finance Advisory function for South Asia Region,

• Providing risk advisory to businesses with reference to guarantees and stand-by/commercial letters of credit - including risk mitigation strategies to reduce the financial risk for Siemens
• Managing outward Guarantees & LCs issuance and inward LCs advising & negotiation and ensuring oversight with reference to inward Guarantees
• Ensuring approvals, monitoring & reporting for Project Exports under the RBI Project Export Memorandum (PEM) guidelines
• Providing regular trade finance trainings to businesses to increase risk awareness and drive risk mitigation
• Overseeing adherence to export and merchanting trade related FEMA guidelines prescribed by RBI
• Liasioning with RBI and obtaining exception approvals from RBI
• Transforming the existing trade finance landscape by designing and implementing e2e automated, straight through processing
• Fostering win-win partnerships with banks and fintech players

Qualifications / Experience:

• Bachelors degree in business administration, finance, accounting, or in a related field, ideally supplemented by additional finance-related qualifications (e.g. MBA etc).
• Minimum 10-15 years of relevant experience in a Corporate Treasury or a Bank with consistent professional accomplishments
• In-depth knowledge of trade finance including ICC guidelines, central bank guidelines, trade finance cum banking practices & processes
• Rich experience in RBI liasioning, handling Project Export Memorandum (PEM) projects and structuring compliant cross border current account transactions to support business requirements
• Proficiency in MS Office suite and understanding of SWIFT for Corporates