West Africa Focused Trade Finance Relationship Manager recruitment

Relationship Manager, Trade Finance, International Investment Bank, London.  Salary: £40-60,000 + bonus

 An excellent opportunity has arisen with the Financial Institutions Team of an African Investment Bank in London.  Working under the head of the team, you will have relationship management responsibilities for the West Africa/Nigeria Trade Finance portfolio with regular business trips to the region to both originate new business and maintain existing relationships.

The role:

• Origination and on-going relationship management of existing portfolio of Financial Institutions clients.  Identification and targeting of new FI relationships in West Africa.

• Monitoring of loan maturities and overdrawn accounts, so these are kept to a minimum.  Should be familiar with undergoing credit submissions and completing all required documentation in relation to credit approvals.

• Will be required to cross-sell the bank’s products (corporate banking/ traditional vanilla slow products suite) to clients and increase the revenues of the team.

Requirements:

• This role is for an Analyst or Associate level candidate.  My client are looking for a candidate ideally coming from a FI trade finance relationship management background, but applicants coming from the following backgrounds may also be considered: trade/ commodity finance origination/ trade sales, trade finance credit analyst, export finance (covering MENA) or FI relationship managers within a corporate banking environment (with some exposure to trade finance products).

• Due to the client facing nature of this role and the client base, travel to the MENA region, particularly West Africa will be required.  Candidates will need to have proven experience of travel to West Africa/Nigeria, ideally in an RM function.

 For more information please contact the Structuring team on structuring@selbyjennings.com or call us on +44 207 019 4139. To apply for this position, please send your CV in Word document and not PDF file.www.selbyjennings.com