Vacancies: Value Chain Financing Specialist, Research Officer, Export and Commodity Financing Specialist
A Financial Institution Looking for Qualified candidates to fill the following positions below:
Position: Value Chain Financing Specialist
Job Description:
- To discover opportunities in this sub-sector and harness same.
- To market the sector in clusters or individually, providing value propositions in line with our products and services.
- Market this sector for liabilities to meet and surpass your liability target
- Market this sector for liabilities to meet and surpass your liability target
- To develop strategies required to attract patronage inline with our Products and services
- To develop proposals, presentations and other marketing tools that will enable your effectiveness in your responsibilities
- Market this value-chain sector to build your credit portfolio to meet and surpass your target for same
- Management of the credit portfolio of the value-chain customers you created and ensuring continuous patronage while expanding your coast in that direction
- Monitor quality of existing risk assets created and ensuring full recovery of same on a continuous basis.
- Development and maintenance of comprehensive Investment & risk asset database for your unit and for the organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- At least 3 years experience as a credit and marketing specialist
- Bachelor Degree in any field with a minimum of 2.2
- Professional qualification will be preferred
- An MBA will be a plus
- Experience in Strategy and the financial services sector will be desirable
- Knowledge of relevant industry sector trends, experience in Africa a plus.
- Strong technical skills in financial modeling, valuation and analysis.
- Strong financial and credit skills, demonstrated ability to structure a variety of financial instruments (debt and equity).
- Business development and client relationship skills, track record and ability to focus on clients needs effectively.
- Ability to interact directly and independently with the senior management of potential clients of financial and technical partners, as well as senior government officials.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English etc
- Strong inter-personal and team working skills, ability to interact effectively with clients and colleagues from various cultural backgrounds;
- Ability to mentor junior investment staff.
- Highly motivated, committed to highest ethical standards; and genuine commitment to sustainable development.
Position: Research Officer
Job Description:
- Daily review of Newspapers and magazines and communicating opportunities and threats to the relevant department.
- Design of marketing strategies for the various departments and the overall strategies for in terms of the 4 P’s of marketing.
- Daily update in our websites with information necessary in our business and for our clients. You are to make our website a bundle of information and knowledge. Once prepared, you send to Branding department for upload in our website.
- The Research Unit is mandated with the brief to conduct market and industry research which shall be used in the packaging of our transactions. You are to handle a lot of briefs for various departments. Feasibility Studies is your duty as well.
- To oversee the Newsletter and ensure that they get to our clients email boxes and mobile phones regularly. To remain the editor and promoter of news letter and magazine.
- Collect and analyze data on customer demographics, preferences, needs, and identify potential markets and factors affecting product demand.
- Measure and assess customer and employee satisfaction
- Monitor industry statistics and follow trends in trade literature
- Gather data on competitors and analyze their products, method of marketing and implementation.
- Seek and provide information to help the firm determine their position in the marketplace.
- Forecast and track marketing, product trend, analyzing collected data.
- Prepare reports of findings, illustrating data graphically and translating complex findings into written text.
- Conduct research on customers opinions and marketing strategies, collaborating with marketing professionals, statisticians and other professionals
- Investigating market activity
- Analyzing published data and statistics
- Evaluating past performance of products
- Assessing future trends.
- Coordinating research projects
- Measure the effectiveness of marketing, advertising and communications programs and strategies.
- Attend staff conferences to provide management with information and proposals concerning the design, promotion of company products and services
- Any other duties as may be assigned by Management
Qualification/Experience:
- University decree in any social science with a minimum of 2nd class.
- Strong social research, social policy and/or numerical skills.
- A strong interest in the policy process and its impact on government decisions.
- A high level of knowledge in the use of database software and specialist packages, such as SPSS.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- An understanding of the political process.
- A high level of motivation and initiative.
- A determination to explore issues thoroughly.
- The ability to think analytically.
- Good organizational skills.
- The ability to work well as part of a team.
- In addition, knowledge of statistical theory and experience of employing statistical techniques and using the internet for research are important.
Position: Export and Commodity Financing Specialist
Job Description:
- To ensure the timely issuance of Trade Finance instruments to ensure that the team is not accountable for any losses as a result.
- Mark-to-Market of various storage positions
- Handling structured or unstructured deals ranging from reviewing and examining the buy and sell details to ensure consistency with the Letter of Credit terms and contractual terms, matching of export LC terms against the import LC terms analyzing their risks, issuing of import LC supported by export LC or open account sales till its final settlement.
- Training of other team members and new hire in their handling of daily operation
- Managing Company’s’ lines.
- Ensure securities (LCs, Payment Undertaking, Banks Risk Cover, Insurance) In place and in order before allowing to load/discharge cargo
- Managing risk through internal limits, insurance companies and banks
- Monitoring credit exposures and mitigating transaction risks.
- Working closing with traders, operations, contract’s team and counter parties in securing/ complying so as to mitigating risks.
- Ensuring timely issuing of L/C’s/Bank Guarantees/Parent Guarantee for the firm’s purchase or Sales.
- Presentation of documentations via LC through the banks.
- Manage the payment process in order to ensure that payments are made on time and secure and queries relating to payments get sorted
- Manage the borrowing with the firm’s banks to ensure we maximize our liquidity and
Qualifications/ Requirement:
- University decree with at least 3 years in Export financing and commodity financing. MBA added advantage
- Facing off to the business and clients
- Ideally with knowledge of Trade Finance instruments
- In depth knowledge of Risks associated with export financing and commodity financing.
Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Characteristics:
- Strong effective communicator in writing, business presentations and in interpersonal communication.
- Highly developed, demonstrated teamwork skills.
- Demonstrates a high degree of confidentiality and unusual common sense.
- Sound Credit Judgment.
- Able to direct the efforts of a team of diverse human resources professionals.
- Demonstrated ability to increase productivity and continuously improve methods, approaches, and departmental contribution while being cost-sensitive. Commitment to continuous learning.
- Ability to do business plans, cashflow analysis, financial, modeling etc.
- Demonstrated ability to see the bid picture and provide useful and strategic advice and input across the company and on the senior executive team.
- Ability to lead in an environment of constant change.
- Experience working in a flexible, employee empowering work environment. Structured or large company experience will not work here.
- Familiarity and skill with the tools of the trade in human resources including HRIS, Microsoft Office suite of products, file management, and benefits administration.
- Experience in organization development and change management.
How to Apply:
Qualified candidates should send their resume to: opportunities001@yahoo.com
Applications close on 19th March 2012.
