Trade Finance Associate | S2 | SCIB

Country: United Kingdom

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Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.
 

 You’ll support the onboarding of new facilities and ongoing renewal of existing facilities, whilst providing guidance and support.

You’ll be supporting origination teams within SCIB GTB Middle Office, with the BAU documentary trade, transactions execution, ongoing portfolio management and monitoring including amendments, discounts, negotiation, BAU liaison with offshore Operations teams for booking and monitoring of Trade Finance instruments.

The difference you’ll make:

• Managing workload by working autonomously using initiative, organisation, attention to detail, prioritisation, problem solving ability, adapting approach to circumstances together with capability to work under pressure, with large amount of information, and to deliver to tight timelines

• Delivering consensus solutions, influencing, negotiating, delivering on challenging goals, promoting relationships and clear communication with stakeholders          

• Identifying, assessing, managing, and reporting risks and controls to achieve strategic objectives and support goals

• Identifying processes, systems and control weaknesses, proposing and assisting to implement improvements using a robust control mindset

• Achieving consensus solutions, influencing, negotiating, delivering on challenging goals, promoting relationships and clear communication with stakeholders

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Solid exposure to investment banking products and banking regulations, regulators and auditors (internal/external)

• Able to demonstrate familiarity with deal origination, execution and processing of trade finance and assessment of their main risks

• Direct experience in trade finance and documentary trade, basic lending, portfolio management lifecycle events, including elements of legal documentation review, and understanding of regulatory developments

• Experience in a Middle Office environment and/or be aware of the segregation of duties between Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office roles

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Second language (ideally Spanish, spoken and written)

• Trade Innovation or similar Trade booking system, repository sites

• Trade finance experience along with CDCS, CITF, CSDG or equivalent

• Good collaboration skills with various stakeholders (internal and external) including front office and back office and ability to prioritise workflow for quick turnarounds

What else you need to know:

This role is based at our offices in Triton Square, London located within easy walking distance from Warren Street and Euston.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 3 days a week (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.  We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.  

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.

• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.

• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.

• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.

• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more. 

• Company funded individual private medical insurance.

• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as, dental insurance, and health assessments.

• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.

• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.

• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [email protected] or call 0870 414 9080.