Team Leader
Arab Bank Plc
Total years of experience :10 years, 4 Months
Letter Of Credit
My assignment involves overall responsibility for the regular functioning of the back-office Trade functions for Arab Bank in the Gulf.
•Supervise Trade Operations for the Gulf area covering four countries (UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Yemen) and responsible for smooth day to day operation of trade related activities through active coordination and control
•Review and approve trade transactions (Export, Import, Collection) including loan financing within delegated limits and ensure adherence to audit compliance, Local and Group Regulations
•Checking and Authorizing the Sight/Deferred settlements (MT202/MT103) both incoming/outgoing in Import & Export
•Checking and Advising the Incoming Export LC’s (MT700, MT710, MT720) to the clients
•Checking and Advising the Incoming Amendments (MT707) of Export LC’s
•Bills Discounting under LC (Import/Export) and coordinate with Branch/FI for approval on the basis of country limits
•Authorize Draft Acceptance (MT752) for both Import/Export
•Check and Issue Shipping Guarantee & Delivery Order
•Authorize to issue/honor the Claims (MT742)
•Authorize Settlement/Issuance of Trust Receipts
•Check and coordinate with Treasury for rates and inform for any FX/ MM transaction
•Review/verify approved lending facility supporting documents to Compliance for credits (including KYC)
• Check and manage with Reconciliation for Nostro/Vostro position and reconcile on a day-to-day basis the receipts and payments with our NOSTRO account activities.
•General correspondence with banks via swift
•Proactively prioritize and take ownership to handle internal and external customers queries, complaints & problems experienced and ensure that high level of customer satisfaction, meeting their expectations
• Maintain ethical/ regulatory/ compliance standard and high level of service quality
• In-depth knowledge of Documentary Credits instruments and good understanding of Letter of Credit (UCP600) and URCC522 for trade finance practices.
Management / supervision of all the transactions under Trade Finance operational related tasks (i.e. documentary credits, bills, incoming / outgoing payments, remittance, SWIFT, trust receipt, credit, etc. related transactions.)
• Checking of shipping documents received under both Letter of Credit & Collections
• Checking and Authorizing the payments through SWIFT.
• Issues Shipping Guanrantee & Delivery Order
• Supervise all SWIFT messages pertaining to private banking, forex and money markets. Coordinate with FI for any new requirements for SWIFT operations .
• Reconcile on a day-to-day basis the receipts and payments with our NOSTRO account activities.
• In-depth knowledge of Documentary Credits instruments and good understanding of Letter of Credit (UCP600) and URCC522 for trade finance practices.
• Ensures team motivation, attendance, leave and continuous feedback on the team performance . Hold regular meeting with staff to give guidance and take corrective actions.
•Visit or Meeting with clients frequently to strengthen relationship, ensure agreed service levels are delivered and new opportunities are identified and to ensure achievement of optimum results.
•Proactively prioritize and take ownership to handle internal and external customers queries, complaints & problems experienced and ensure that high level of customer satisfaction, meeting their expectations.
•Provide technical support to other units of the Branch/ Staff whenever needed.
•Maintain and sustain close cooperation as well as regular reporting to senior management locally and in Head Office for operational related areas to ensure smooth, risk free and high quality processing.
Middle Market, Client Relationships
Root Cause Analysis For Offer Letter Expiry/Decline'
Objectives: Collecting Data & Information from the consumers, identifying the problems faced by the consumers, Reading consumer behavior
ACHIEVEMENT & TRAININGS ATTENDED
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