Vice President - Global Trade Finance Department

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services seeks an experienced trade finance marketing professional to manage client relationships and drive marketing initiatives across various products. The role involves working closely with various departments to ensure successful deal execution and developing marketing strategies for the APAC region.

Qualifications

• Rich experience in trade finance marketing, origination, and structuring.
• Strong negotiation skills and deal execution experience.
• Good understanding of Singapore Trade Finance and Transaction Banking products.

Responsibilities

• Carry out marketing activities for trade finance products.
• Manage workflow from origination to deal execution.
• Report progress on pipeline deals and support business activities.

Skills

Customer centric mindset

Strong communication skills

Marketing attitude

Ability to work under pressure

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

• To carry out marketing activities for trade finance products (LC/ guarantee issuance, LC confirmation / discounting, ARP, SCF, milestone basis mid-term trade solutions, structured trade, and ECA finance). Incumbent is expected to develop relationship with customers (non Japanese corporate clients, SG local companies and Global subsidiries in SG).
• Responsible for marketing from origination, structuring, negotiation, documentation to deal execution for corporate clients. Managing workflow with team members from GTFD, other departments including but not limited to Coverage, Legal, Credit, Operations for successful deal management.
• To demonstrate SMBC's best practice by following internal rule & procedure, relevant regulations and compliance matters (understanding on mission statement & 5 values, related HQ policies, procedure manual, pre-consultation process, etc).
• Prior experience in handling trade financing products, solutions for commodity and trader segment(s) preferable.
• Report progress on pipeline deals and updates on marketing activities, support Head of Working Capital in business and reporting activities.. Act asback-up for colleagues in the team during compliance leave or other periods as agreed with GTFD management.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Rich experience of trade finance marketing promotion, origination, structuring, commercial negotiation and deal execution.
• Strong customer centric mindset and active marketing attitude.
• Strong communication skill to manage key relationships internally & externally.
• Demonstrate SMBC's best practice as a role model, act as 1st line of defense and good sense of 2 CCF (customer/ compliance comes first)
• Ability to work on multiple tasks in parallel under pressure and to time constraints with significant changes.
• Experience to support planning of the marketing strategy and execution in APAC's countries and sector approach.
• Good understanding of the Singapore Trade Finance, Trade digitialization and Transaction Banking products and competitor landscape.
• As team player, ability to work in cross-functional teams to deliver appropriate trade finance solutions for the customers.