Key responsibility: Provide the middle office support function for the business conducted by International Trade Banking (ITB) – supply chain finance, forfaiting and cash management/Client Services activity.
Key Responsibilities ITB:
• Key contact for Transaction Banking Clients (both Corporate and Financial Institutions) on their cash management, supply chain and forfaiting activities for the day to day of the activity as well as the reporting
• Ensure that a high level of interaction and communication is maintained with the Front Office to ensure full knowledge of developments in the business including pipeline activity.
First point of contact on the supply chain finance, forfaiting & cash management activity
Receivable and Supply Chain finance:
• Manage the relationship with the Borrower and the agent on the RSF transactions.
• Review and comment on ‘draft’ documentation for new transactions to check for operational fit with the middle office requirements, highlighting any areas for further discussion with and/or review by the Front Office as necessary.
• Ensure the necessary Credit approvals are in place and all checks are performed before opening a new credit line or a new account.
• Prepare a Transmission Sheet for back office and Risk when applicable.
• Obtain all relevant documentation, create the transaction in the bank systems and ensure that executed copies of all the appropriate documentation are provided to Risk and back office and send to Legal for safekeeping.
• Liaise with Risk and BSG for daily handling of all deals.
• Manage drawdowns and repayments, liaising with Back office.
• Book and maintain transactions in Middle-Office Systems when required (committed lines).
• Maintain diary systems to ensure all actions on the portfolio are monitored.
• Prepare audit responses.
• Ensure that adhoc queries relating to deals are dealt with in an accurate and timely manner (e.g. payment instructions, follow-up queries on payments etc).
• Ensure all procedures (for each supply chain and reverse forfaiting) are up to date and controls files in place in the proper directory.
Cash Management & Client Services:
• Support FO teams to ensure timely and quality service on the cash management activity – opening / amendment / closing of accounts and associated services
Cash Management activity: deposit accounts, boosted deposit accounts, payments (domestic and cross border), e-banking (OPTIM.NET and OPTIM SWIFNet
• Support all the clients requests related to accounts (bank statement, change of authorised signatories etc) and process them accurately in a timely manner