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Financial

• Responsible for leading Trade Sales across Corporate & Retail segments.

• Advising and structuring for International Trade & Commodities Finance and Correspondent Banking relationships.

• Provide necessary support to the relationship teams through generation of sales pipelines, sales materials, sales drives etc. to ensure sustainable growth of Trade funded and NFI numbers.

• To structure Working Capital solutions and sell Trade solutions to new and existing customers within Corporate & Retail Banking segments.

• Drive innovative product offerings through re-engineering existing products or developing new ones for roll out to clients across the region.

• Ensure adherence to statutory and bank legal requirements in relation to operations in the Trade Finance front office.

• Provide support for approvals for concessionary pricing of both funded and non-funded Trade finance products to business units and operations.

• Represent NCBA Bank in various Trade finance forums and marketing of the NCBA Group Brand to various stakeholders.

Internal Business Processes

• Regularly identify, measure, monitor and control the overall levels of risks in the Trade Finance business

• Responsible for the units RCSA development, regular reviews and updates to ensure risk management adaptation to the changing business environment

• Responsible for the Performance management of all Trade staff ensuring effective target setting, monitoring and correct performance measures are done.

• Support in development of policies and procedures for structured Trade finance and Trade products that have been customized for use by the various business units.

• Provide advisory and guidance services to the Bank’s operations staff, credit risk teams and branch network in relation to Trade Finance related products and transactions.

• Periodically review and support in development of Structured Trade Finance procedures and processes to mitigate against inherent risks in the region using a solid        understanding of the working capital cash conversion cycle, and be able to effectively quantify and relate how our Supply Chain Finance and / or traditional Import LC or Export LC solutions would improve a company’s working capital metrics.

• Co-ordination of utilization reports for STF facilities between the Trade finance back office, the relationship management team(s) and credit risk for purposes of monitoring.

• Ensure effective resolution of operational issues covering areas under direct control.

Customer

• Effectively monitor drawn SLA’s to ensure that Trade products are handled in a timely and efficient manner and that all elements of operational risk, e.g. fraud, follow up of audit recommendations, are managed effectively across all areas under the direct control of the role holder.

• Initiate actions to overcome problems identified in meeting the service levels and ensure agreed SLAs with the department are executed and adhered to by all stakeholders.

Learning and Growth

• Provide technical and product training to staff in the Bank as well as conduct Trade forums and workshops to support business units across the group.