Trade Finance Officer

Our client is a major midstream European Energy Supply & Trading company, headquartered in Zug area with subsidiaries and sites in Europe.

The group is operating in conventional energies and growing sustainable energies businesses.

Within the Group Treasury Department at the Headquarters in Zug, we are looking for a qualified and committed

Trade Finance Officer

Your responsibilities (At Group level)

• Processing and monitoring all life cycle events of import and export letters of credit, guarantees, standby letters of credit (The trade finance instruments )
• Booking of the trade finance instruments in the treasury management system
• Control and booking of all fees related to the trade finance transactions
• Creation and reconciliation of daily, monthly and year end reports for external and internal stakeholders
• Preparing monthly recharge overview for the fees to be recharged to the company entities
• Monitoring and annual review of the company guarantees in close collaboration with the Credit and Legal team
• Annual review and revision of the Group Trade Finance Policy and Manual of the trade finance transactions in the treasury management system (Annual)
• Build strong relationship with our pool of banks, external and internal stakeholders
• Proactively analyse and improve trade finance processes and identify opportunities to reduce exposure by reporting of the payment instruments and identifying gaps and process improvements
• Develop and enhance our current digital solutions around trade finance to increase speed and efficiency and automate existing processes
• Support the group companies in optimising its working capital financing via the creative use of trade finance instruments
• Assist team in cash management and cash flow forecast related activities and projects
• Ad hoc investigations, reconciliations and reporting for corporate finance

Job Requirements

• Bachelor or Masters degree
• Minimum 3-5 years experience as a Trade Finance Officer
• Good knowledge of payment instrument rules and regulations (e.g. UCP 600, ISP 98 and URDG 758)
• Commodity sector experience preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent English language skills (spoken and written)
• Result-oriented and hands-on-mentality
• Ability to work independently, in an organized matter and gets things done
• Outstanding team player
• Excellent communications skills

Our company offers you a broad range of responsibilities within a very dynamic and international team and many opportunities to develop yourself in a sucessful and growing company