Trade Officer

Standard Chartered; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution is seeking a Trade Operations Specialist to support international trade transactions. The role involves processing documentation and ensuring compliance in trade workflows. The ideal candidate has significant experience in trade finance operations and relevant certifications. This position offers competitive pay and a diverse environment that supports personal growth and well-being.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Inclusive and values-driven organization

Qualifications

• Significant prior experience in trade finance operations.
• Strong understanding of Trade Finance products, including export negotiations.
• Relevant trade certification such as CDCS, CSDG, or CTF.

Responsibilities

• Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality services.
• Release deals as per the departmental operating instructions.
• Understand workflows and prioritize transactions based on requests.

Skills

Trade finance operations experience

Document checking under letter of credit

Strong understanding of Trade Finance products

Relevant trade certification (CDCS, CSDG, CTF)

Knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML)

Familiarity with Trade Finance systems

Job description

Job Summary

We’re looking for a talented Trade Operations Specialist to join our team. You’ll support the execution of international trade transactions by processing documentation, coordinating operational tasks and ensuring smooth and compliant trade workflows.

You’ll be a key part of our Trade Documentary team, who are responsible for supporting the efficient execution of Trade Finance operations within the Bank. The team are vitally important to the Bank’s core strategy, handling transactions globally and minimising risk. You’ll be part of a global, purpose-led business with the resources to support your unique career aspirations. This is your opportunity to solve complex problems, drive innovation and change, to help us achieve our strategic ambitions. Trade Documentary sits within our Transformation, Technology and Operations function.

About our Transformation, Technology & Operations Team

Our Transformation, Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

Key Responsibilities

• You’ll be ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality services, exceeding customer expectations and working accurately and efficiently, showcasing good business processes and sound judgement.
• You’ll release deals as per the departmental operating instructions manual, customer instructions and within the timeliness and accuracy standards specified.
• Ensure transactions are handled with in the allocated approved limits at all times, on a continual basis.
• Understand our workflows and processes, and prioritise transactions based on business and client requests.

Skills and Experience

• Significant prior experience in trade finance operations within a banking or financial institution.
• Experience document checking under letter of credit.
• Strong understanding of Trade Finance products, including export negotiations, guarantees and documentary collections.
• Relevant trade certification such as a Certificate for Documentary Credit Specialists. (CDCS), Certificate for Specialists in Demand Guarantees (CSDG), or Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF).
• Knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) & sanctions.
• Familiarity with Trade Finance systems and technologies.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills,global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.