Mandarin Chinese Speaking Trade Service Officer

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Your New Job Title: Mandarin Speaking Trade Service Officer

The Skills You'll Need: Trade finance experience in a banking environment. Mandarin and English fluent.

Your New Salary: Competitive depending on experience

Location: Central London

Who You'll Be Working for: an international bank

About the job:

Perform tasks relating to import and export initiation and settlement business, including L/Cs, Clean and Documentary Collections, Bank Guarantees, trade finance business. AML System checking, assessment on trade transactions and BCP.

What You'll be Doing Each Day:

• All aspects of import transactions including: L/C issuance, L/C acceptances, collections such as D/P, D/A, etc., scan document and send to BPC for their checking under import L/Cs, effecting payment under L/Cs, D/P, D/A, etc., bank guarantees / standby L/Cs and import finance.
• All aspects of export transactions including: L/C advising; L/C confirmation, scan documents and send to BPC for their checking against export L/C negotiation, L/C reimbursement and collections under D/P, D/A, etc. Double check the contents of delivery documents before mailing.
• Trade related finance solutions such as packing loans, factoring, bills discounting, forfaiting and funded or un-funded risk participation.
• Calculate accurately the fees and interests for the relevant transactions.
• Liaise correspondence in connection with documentary import and export letters of credit for customers of the Bank in line with agreed procedures with BPC.
• Collate and check documents which have been processed by BPC to ensure Compliant with letters of credit terms and conditions.
• Proficient checking of payments with appropriate knowledge of Swift rules after being made by BPC.
• Timely following up of irregularities with customers and BPC.
• Liaise with clients on matters relating to L/C transactions together with BPC.
• Assist Head of Institutional Banking in carrying out various trade finance related statistical reports for Management and Head Office.
• Funds positioning.
• Carrying out periodical accounting reconciliation internally with Credit Administration, Corporate Banking and Financial Control departments and externally with BPC.
• Make proper registrations to the business as required by the procedure.
• Assist Head of Institutional Banking to monitor the progress of the transaction processing.
• Suggest the upgrading of the working procedure.
• Filing and archiving.
• All the CDD and AML checking in trade services and other products lines as required by the Bank’s policy.
• Keep all AML check evidences for audit trail purpose. Must report / escalate to MLRO for potential positive hit or suspicious transactions in accordance to the Bank’s AML policy.
• Other tasks as directed by the Head of Institutional Banking.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Banking trade finance experience
• Attention to detail
• Experience usingUCP600;
• Accuracy and able to adapt to change in work flows;
• Analysis, planning and organising;
• Teamwork and communication;
• Bilingual: English & Mandarin. Mandarin is essential for this role.

Job status: Permanent

Start date: ASAP

Working hours: 9 to 5

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