Zainab Kapadia, As Logistics Officer

Zainab Kapadia

As Logistics Officer

BDP International

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
7 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 6 Months

As Logistics Officer at BDP International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2016 to September 2022

Export Logistics officer Job Purpose:
• Worked as logistics officer and handling freight forwarding role.
• Maintaining logistics and transportation related records.
• timely booking of the shipment on the desired vessel and meeting customers requested date of delivery.
• Ensure proper freight rates are obtained.
• Timely generating documents for customs clearance and ensuring customs clearance is done well in advance and never risking roll over of the shipment
• Knowledge to handle customs inspection
• Well aware for cross loading procedures
• Well aware of linking container with other bookings in case the empty container is removed erroneously by transporter

Responsibilities:
• Ensure that all booking with carrier is completed neatly, professionally, accurately and error free with all current information in proper order and within corporate standards of timeline
• Send ocean booking details to customer within 2 working days from action date ensuring compliance to all customer requirements, consignee letter of transmittal, standard instructions, letter of credit requirements and/or order specific instructions.
• Arrange for transportation for loading the cargo from respective warehouse
• Coordinate with warehouse and/or plant for loading the cargo.
• Prepare and double check BDP invoices ensuring that all charges are correct.
• Participate in cross training and learn the processes of other members of the facility so that you are able to cover the responsibilities in case of sickness, vacation or during times of peak work load
• Ensure you understand and adhere to all customer requirements and operating standards
• Document, maintain and update work processes/procedures as they relate to each customer account

• Notify team coordinator if needed information is not provided in time

• Regular communication with operations and RSC/GSC personnel on obstacle preventing timely bill and close

LC Specialist at Gulf Bank
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 2013 to October 2014

Job Purpose:
• To perform various standard and specialized processing /clerical duties regarding LC & Bills in order to initiate processing, liquidation, discounting and acceptance.

Accountabilities:
• Processing: Initiate processing of LC & Bills in the system to generate LC Instrument / Arrival notifications and / or refusal advices to correspondent for discrepant
documents and thereby obtain accurate financial data related to LC and documents.
• Settlement Processing: Process settlement of bills & claims following approved policies and procedures and ensuring approval according to credit delegation.
• Data Entry: Clear outstanding entries in Nostro accounts and close utilized LCs on the system, so that data is well organized.
• Customer Relations: Attend customer queries and respond with required information, ensuring adequate closure for all related queries.
• Document Management: Release documents to customer by acknowledgment of receipt and maintain adequate follow-up with customers on discrepant documents concerning their refusal / acceptance of documents.

Generic Accountabilities:
• Operational Compliance: Adhere to the directives of Line Manager.
• Corporate Governance: Follow all relevant operational procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Risk Management: Conform to risk policies and procedures to minimize the error ratios and customer frauds.
• AML Compliance: Comply with AML and other policies.
Ensure to stay updated on all existing rules and changes
thereto.

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Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Savitribai Phule Pune University
  • June 2012

Specialties & Skills

logisitcs
Documentation
Letter of Credit
Trade Finance
C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
OPERATIONS
BOOKING (RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE)
FOURGEN COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CASE) TOOLS
COMMUNICATIONS
FREIGHT FORWARDING
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
CREDIT RISK
GOVERNANCE
JAVA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)

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