Junior Trade Finance Specialist (with English)

Talan Group; Madrid; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Language lessons

Training and career development

Job summary

Talan Group is seeking a Junior Trade Finance Specialist to join their Corporate Banking team in Madrid. This is a unique opportunity for entry-level professionals. You will be involved in trade finance operations, ensuring compliance with legal policies and collaborating across teams.

The role requires advanced English proficiency. Ideal candidates should hold a degree in relevant fields and possess analytical skills. The company offers a permanent full-time contract with training and benefits.

Qualifications

• Advanced English proficiency is essential for communication.
• Must have a degree in Law, Business, Translator, or related fields.
• Attention to detail and analytical skills are crucial for this role.

Responsibilities

• Engage with documentation to understand trade finance processes.
• Process client guarantees and maintain transaction records.
• Collaborate with Compliance and Legal teams.

Skills

Advanced English proficiency

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Initiative

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Education

Degree in Law, Business, Translator, or related fields

Job description

Junior Trade Finance Specialist (with English)

We offer a unique opportunity for junior professionals to join a leading Corporate Banking team, specializing in trade finance – bank guarantees. No banking experience is required.

Join a global operations team and contribute to delivering high-quality services to international clients.

We need someone that can collaborate with:

• Proactively engage with available documentation, training materials, and real case examples to build a solid understanding of processes, products, and tools.
• Maintain structured personal notes to consolidate learning, track key concepts, and document recurring patterns or use cases.
• Apply a learn-apply-reflect approach: actively implement newly acquired knowledge in daily tasks and reflect on outcomes to reinforce understanding.
• Seek regular feedback from mentors or senior team members and incorporate it into subsequent work.
• Demonstrate curiosity by asking relevant, well-thought-out questions and identifying knowledge gaps independently.
• Gradually increase autonomy by reducing reliance on guidance and showing the ability to solve similar problems based on prior learnings.
• Process client and partner guarantees in compliance with legal and risk policies.
• Perform internal controls and keep accurate transaction records.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and Trade Services teams across Europe.
• Manage invoicing and align accounting entries.
• Handle payments to correspondent banks.

Documentary Trade – Middle Office:

• Monitor daily operations and approvals.
• Coordinate with Back Office to ensure proper issuance of Letters of Credit.
• Align processes with UCP 600/ISP98 and compliance standards.
• Escalate complex cases to management as needed.

Qualifications

• Advanced English proficiency.
• Degree in Law, Business, Translator, or related fields.
• Attention to detail, initiative, analyst skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools.
• Based in Madrid and available full-time.

Additional Information

What do we offer you?

• On site position based in Madrid, Spain.
• Permanent, full-time contract.
• Training and career development.
• Benefits and perks such as private medical insurance, life insurance, language lessons, etc.
• Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects.

Talan Spain’s commitment to non-discrimination based on gender, race, ideology, or any other reason, in accordance with the company’s “Equality Plan” and the current regulations on gender equality between women and men (Royal Decree-Law 6/2019).