Trade Finance Lead Analyst

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Support and maintain Bank Trade Finance Credit Lines and portfolio pricing.
• SME ability to negotiate pricing and documents, mitigate risk, problem solve and support businesses Trade Finance needs.
• Demonstrated ability to work across various internal and external stakeholders to drive required outcomes in a fast-paced environment. Display a high level of judgement and skill in dealing and partnering with commercial and external stakeholders to meet customer requirements.
• Lead functional projects with minimal resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity to review and create new processes.
• Provide daily support to internal Trade Finance stakeholders and internal customers.
• Work with various Aerospace business units to perform portfolio reviews
• Able to offer new creative solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide strategic recommendations in line with overarching Company goals.
• Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• Work with and other Transaction Services processes such as Bank Administration, signer management and FBAR
• Lead and support cross-training and talent development objectives across the Treasury function.
• Engage in active job sharing, learning an job rotation across Treasury as business needs arise.
• Support treasury objectives relating to any M&A and other portfolio actions.
• Ensure operating within the defined risk management and governance framework.  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college in Finance or related field and 4 years of experience

• Relevant experience in Treasury within GE

Desired Characteristics

• Clear thinking / problem solving successfully led cross-functional projects/process improvement within operations/finance function involving process improvement; able to quickly grasp new ideas.
• Excellent communication skills: experience working across multiple levels (including executive level), functions and regions; able to elevate and integrate, clearly communicate complex concepts in an easy-to-understand manner; able to deliver message effectively verbally and in writing.
• Significant experience with Bank Trade Finance, Credit Lines and Portfolio pricing.
• Confidence / Assertiveness: strong influencing skills across business functions; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend position; for example, work closely with business leaders to achieve business objectives while driving controllership/GE Values.
• Experience working in global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows.
• Adaptable/flexible: being open to change (positive or negative) in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations.
• Integrity: accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others.
• Trained and/or certified in process improvement methodology such as LEAN or Six Sigma.

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