sheila marie tirao, Trade Finance officer

sheila marie tirao

Trade Finance officer

mashreq Bank

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Master of Business Administration
Experience
7 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 4 Months

Trade Finance officer at mashreq Bank
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2014 to August 2014

• Create and document Letters of Credit relating to Exports transactions in the bank.
• Reviews and ensures that banks LC application is completed fully and accurately.
• Coordinates/works with beneficiary and internal counsel in situations where the banks general presentment terms are not acceptable to beneficiary.
• Represents the LC issuance process and ensures that all the proper steps are taken and requirements met in order for an LC to be issued.
• Ensures that all LC processed are clear of OFAC hit and as per Compliance standards and policy
• Handle NOSTRO account entries for collection and payment related transactions.
• Communicate through different bank through SWIFT and creates LC through Core Banking Flexcube

Officer at Mashreq Bank
  • United Arab Emirates
  • July 2008 to February 2014

Key Responsibilities
• Support the Centralized Administration of system access and control of all Banking application systems used by the Bank and its subsidiaries.
• Coordinate with MIT department to provide technology support to the user group for expeditious trouble shooting, maintenance and administration of the computer systems so that down time is reduced to minimum.
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing of system development. Identify program bugs and report the same for rectification.
• Prepare SOPs and Work Instruction for UPA processes as and when required.
• Identify areas for enhancement, rationalization and improvement of process and operations and suggest ways to eliminate areas of weaknesses to improve productivity, have better control and reduce error and enhance internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Provides access to different BANK APPLICATIONS to the user (password change, user creation and modifications)
• Creates, modifies and reset passwords of all users using the different Bank Applications
- Update MS Outlook details of internal bank users as well as the maintenance of Windows login IDs and passwords
- Provide access and maintains internal bank users accesses to different network and drives access as well as different domains access like in Business Objects, SigCAP and Sideviewer.
- Handle Core Banking application for the whole bank, for the administrative functions.
- Handle the clean up of accesses of 88 banking applications the department is currently handling which includes Windows AD / Outlook, Select, Vectus, SWIFT, UAE Central Bank applications like WPS, ASR, GAteway, etc, other banking applications like ICCS, EDMS, Collection Management, Flexcube, Mosaics, Oracle and others.
- Act as Team Leader on day to day work management for the department, assign, delegate other admins to handle and finish the work on daily basis and make sure everything is finish by day end.

MIS Analyst at Mashreq Bank
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2007 to June 2008

Key Responsibilities
• Checks all the report generated from different system applications based from the modifications made by the Administrators.
• Support and assist Take Over of New and remaining application system, one per quarter, from MIT and/or Business owners for UPA functions.
• Maintain and Support all the application systems under UPA control for user profiles and related issues on day to day basis
• Assist and Support in performing Clean-up of redundant users and profiles from all the systems under UPA control as and when required
• Support as a team member for timely de-activation of Resigned Users from the Application Systems under UPA control to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access as and when the need arises
• Define System specifications for enhancements and conducting UAT, related to UPA functions for existing / new systems
• Support in keeping the UPA SOP updated and current as and when required
• Raise concern if data look inconsistent or reflects substantial change in process performance or productivity.
• Prepare monthly MIS for all systems
• Provides access from different BANK APPLICATIONS to the user (password change, user creation and modifications)
• Creates, modifies and reset passwords of all users using the different Bank Applications

Education

Master's degree, Master of Business Administration
  • at University of Wollongong in Dubai
  • July 2011
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
  • at University of Santo Tomas
  • March 2006

Specialties & Skills

Work Management
Resource Management
Time Management
Team Player
C++ Cobol VB Photoshop HTML
Business Object
MS Office
SWIFT application
MS Outlook
NT / AD

Languages

English
Expert
Tagalog
Expert

Memberships

ACAMS
  • ACAMS student - Anti Money Laundering
  • October 2013

Training and Certifications

ACAMS (Training)
Training Institute:
ACAMS USA
Date Attended:
October 2013

Hobbies

  • Running
  • Watching Movies
  • Dragon Boat Rowing
  • Biking
  • Travelling