Natixis Hiring! Full Time Assistant Vice President, Trade Finance Operations – Agency Middle Office in - Ricebowl

Description de l’entreprise

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking est une institution financière mondiale de premier plan qui fournit des services de conseil, de banque d'investissement, de financement, de banque d'entreprise et de marchés de capitaux aux entreprises, institutions financières, sponsors financiers et organisations souveraines et supranationales du monde entier. Nos équipes d'experts dans plus de 30 pays conseillent nos clients sur leur développement stratégique, les aident à développer et à transformer leurs activités, et à maximiser leur impact positif.

Poste et missions

Main Responsibilities:

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate closely with front-office, back-office, compliance, legal, IT, and other support departments to ensure seamless documentation and transaction monitoring and client satisfaction.
• Proactively engage in client discussion and client events with front-office.
• Deepen client orientation to enhance client journey by respecting the 100% SLA target.
• Support business growth and participate the initiatives in achieving operational excellence, resilience and efficiency.

Operational Duties / Business-as-Usual (BAU)

• Process the day-to-day middle-office operation activities to ensure timely and accurate processing of all Trade Finance documentation and transaction monitoring in accordance with the relevant procedure manual, rules and regulations:
• Credit administrative functions in checking the documentation, monitoring covernants and condition presedent, deal implementation and renewal.
• Agency functions in sydication or participation deals where the bank assumes agency roles such as Facility Agent / Security Agent / Account Bank / Lender role(s). Coordinate the receipt / distribution of Arrangement Fees, Upfront Fees, Commitment Fees etc between Borrower and Lenders if required.
• Transactions monitoring in checking the Comite parameters, utilization, collateral, mark-to-market valuations, KYC, vessel, AML and sanctions.

Governance, Compliance and Risk Management

• Ensure all operations adhere to the bank's policies, procedures and compliance standards.
• Report incidents or potential risks and propose solutions to the manager timely to mitigate the operational and financial risks.
• Perform the CPN1.1 control checks to ensure transactions completion and to flag potential anomalies or risks.
• Perform CPN1.2 sampling quality assurance check timely to identify process lapse or errors for attention and resolution.
• Provide timely returns to the manager on reporting and audits.
• Zero tolerance in sanctions breaches.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Generate and implement ideas on process improvement (Low code/No code) and optimisation to enhance efficiency, reduce turnaround time, minimize errors, and control costs (Lean).
• Participate the projects and UAT related to enhancement, automation and digital transformation.
• Align with the global process convergence.

Required Skills:

• Relevant experience in Trade Finance Middle Office and project management in the Banking Industry.
• Written and Spoken English. Spoken Mandarin & Cantonese is a plus.
• Familiar with Microsoft Windows (Excel, Word). Knowledge on other system tools and AI applications will be an added advantage.