Structured Finance Officer
- Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor’s degree or above, preferably in Finance, Accounting or Economics
- Fluency in English and Chinese, excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong financial background with 8-10 years relevant experience or equivalent
- Commodity structured finance or trade finance experience with major traders or banks desirable
- Detailed understanding of credit risk and solid credit analysis skills
- Able to handle complicated documentation
- Numerically oriented with attention to detail and accuracy
- Demonstrable specialist financial skills and technical expertise to be credible on the trading floor and in high-level negotiations
- Creative problem solver
- Deals well with complexity and can define critical issues and establish what is material to a successful transaction
- Confident and highly credible in a fast-paced trading environment
- Thrives in a demanding, fast-paced, and results-oriented environment
- Proactively maintaining relationship and working with financial institutions to provide financing solutions for Trafigura Group’s commercial development
- Drive the identification and origination in commodity STF deals
- Analysing counterparty credit risks and serving as an intermediary between trading and credit for streamlining and easing the credit decisions process, including filing credit request, monitoring and reporting credit exposures
- Preparing various reports to the group and management by working closely with trading and operation departments
- Handling all aspects of a structured trade finance transaction including origination, structuring, syndication, documentation and risk participation
- Performing a proactive business development function by reacting on a timely basis to requests from trading departments and developing new business opportunities from own contacts and network
- Internally with traders, credit, legal, tax, compliance, deal desk, operations, head office
- Externally with customers, banks, insurance underwriters and service providers including legal counsel, technical advisor, appraiser, etc.