Associate Director, Trade Finance

NAB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

NAB in Singapore is seeking an Associate Director to proactively manage a multi-product portfolio of customer relationships, focusing on driving facility utilisation and developing existing relationships.

You will play an important client-facing, hands-on, product specialist role to complement the primary client relationship managed by the Client Coverage banker, with responsibilities across Trade Asia Clients in Corporate and Institutional banking.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer relationship management required.
• Strong knowledge of trade finance product and processing.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Tertiary education is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive facility utilisation and monitor Trade and Working Capital (TWC) facilities in your portfolio to meet customer needs.
• Identify and manage customer activities on TWC facilities and mitigate risk in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Ensure robust risk management in line with Trade Finance Due Diligence and Trade Sanctions Policy.
• Identify risks across the portfolio via customer interactions and key risk triggers.
• Proactively seek new business opportunities for TWC and NAB Asia through client conversations and advisers.
• Improve collaboration with Trade operations across Asia and Australia.
• Initiate and support change initiatives delivering process efficiencies and reducing cost to serve.

Skills

CRM skills

Trade finance knowledge

Stakeholder management

Business development

Thought leadership

Education

Tertiary education

Job description

Closing Date: 29 November 2026

Worker Type:

Permanent

The role of Associate Director is to proactively manage a multi-product portfolio of customer relationships focussing on driving facility utilisation and development and growing of existing customer relationships.

It will be your remit to ensure customer satisfaction is enhanced through relationship management via a planned visitation program, proactive calling and identifying opportunities to improve services and provide customer efficiencies.

You will play an important client facing, hands on, product specialist role to complement the primary client relationship that is managed by the Client Coverage banker.

You will be required to assist with questions, requirements and growth opportunities relating to Trade Asia Clients within the Corporate and Institutional banking business.

Core Responsibilities:

On a day-to-day basis, your responsibilities will include (but not be limited to) delivering for our customer and promote specialist products and services by:

• Drive customer facility utilisation and monitoring Trade and Working Capital (TWC) facilities in your portfolio to ensure the customer’s ongoing needs are met.
• Identifying and managing customer activities on TWC facilities, instigating the necessary action to mitigate risk in collaboration with internal stakeholders whilst maintaining the overall customer relationship.
• Ensure robust risk management practices are adhered to in accordance to Trade Finance Due Diligence standard and Trade Sanctions Policy.
• Identifying risks across the portfolio via customer interactions and key risk triggers
• Proactively seeking new business opportunities for TWC and NAB Asia through conversations with clients and their advisers.
• Improve collaboration with Trade operations and colleagues across Asia and Australia
• Initiate and support change initiatives that deliver process efficiencies and reduce cost to serve

Critical Experiences:

• Excellent customer relationship management skills
• Strong knowledge in trade finance product and processing
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Qualifications:

• Tertiary desired

Core Skills & Capabilities required:

• An understanding of International Trade rules and regulations, asset conversion cycles, accounting principles and conventions.
• An energetic approach for business development.
• Prior experience in either Trade/Invoice Finance and /or Invoice Discounting (Receivables Financing) Sales.
• Insights to thought leadership on how we respond to the changing landscape in trade and transactional solutions.
• A commitment to on-going self-development.

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Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.