Manager Trade Finance job at Exim Bank (Uganda) (EBU) | Apply Now

Responsibility for leading Trade Sales across Corporate & Branch Business segments, advising and structuring for International Trade & Commodities Finance and Correspondent Banking relationships.

Development and implementation of policies, processes, and structures to manage risks in dealing with Trade products within the Bank.

Overall management and responsibility for Trade Finance & Trade related correspondent banking income.

Ensuring maintenance of healthy business environment through strict compliance with policies and procedures, as defined by the Exim Bank and local regulatory authorities.

Develop work plans for the Unit and set SMART goals that are consistent with Exim Bank’s overall strategic objectives.

Responsible for the Growth of the trade finance Business portfolio to ensure set targets of portfolio growth, income and quality are achieved.

Primary responsibility for management of the Trade finance Budget in collaboration with the relationship management teams in the respective business units/segments.

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

Work with Corporate, Treasury and Branch Business to develop sales pipelines for Trade-related business in line with overall Account Plans.

Maintenance of the existing client base and acquisition of new businesses from the market and region in which the Exim Bank is represented.

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 in the respective subsidiary offices.

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

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

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.

Support drawing up and implement process SLAs and its effective management (service level agreements)