Vp, Me Trade Origination - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Barclays

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About International Corporate Banking


International Corporate Banking provides corporate banking services to corporate clients, including top-tier corporations, multi-nationals, global financial institutions and global non-bank financial institutions.

Our clients have access to corporate and investment banking and wealth and investment management services.

The Trade & Working Capital APAC & Middle East team is responsible for the origination of Trade & Working Capital products and work closely with its IB colleagues to ensure we are leveraging the breadth of the CIB product set against these client relationships.

The team is focussed on origination activities across Singapore (for South East Asia & Australia), HK-China (Greater China), UAE (for Middle East), Japan and India.

About Trade & Working Capital

Trade and Working Capital is a specialist team within Barclays and comprises of Origination, Structuring and Client Management, supported by Product Management, Projects, Operational Rigour, Business Management and functional partners.

We work closely with Corporate Relationship Directors to deliver financial solutions that are right for our clients businesses.

Products provided to clients include Bonds, Guarantees and Indemnities, Letters of Credit and Collections, Trade Loans, Receivables Finance, Sales Finance (with or without recourse) and Supplier Finance.


There are c.200 colleagues in T&WC and the business is set-up with origination teams, structuring teams and client management and implementation teams.


Our frontline originators and business development managers spend time with Barclays clients or Barclays acquisition targets to understand their business cycle.

However complex, the requirements are primarily to mitigate risk, ensure payment security and maximise working capital - our suite of products and services can support any client's needs.

Overall purpose of role

  • Develop and implement trade finance origination strategy for the corporate clients, managing the client base from a trade finance origination perspective in close cooperation with the coverage unit.
  • Maximise the trade origination revenue for the geographic region / client segment in line with revenue targets and maximize limit utilization and crosssell of trade products.
  • Ability to originate, implement and develop trade structure products
Key Accountabilities

  • Support the development of / calling program for Trade Finance
  • Implement and monitor the trade origination plan to achieve targeted revenue objectives.
  • Good experience in trade structure i.e ECA, receivable discounting and supply chain finance to support the growth of the ME franchise.
  • Monitor client Trade Finance utilizations and make origination calls to promote Trade Finance
  • Refer new to bank clients and offer out of box solutions
  • Advise clients on trade transactions and engage the Trade Product team in UAE or centrally in UK for an E2E customer solution.
  • Support the relationship team in Barclays by providing the necessary skills, knowledge and training to help drive trade finance origination in Barclays UAE. Maintain a balance between funded, unfunded and trade service revenues.
  • Focus on achieving high returns on RWA as guided by the bank's policies. Focus on trade products of low RWA usage. Compete effectively on pricing in line with competition.
  • Deliver against aggressive volume & revenue targets set by Regional Head of TWC jointly with senior management.
  • Maintain a calling program of new and existing clients. Feed new client's requirements including any market / product intelligence to the product team for development.
  • Promote crosssell opportunities to Treasury.
  • Take ownership with coverage of new & renewal of credit proposals for Trade Finance. Minimize risk and impairments for Trade Finance and highlight any risks at an early stage.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership

  • Build strong working relationships within ICB team, including with senior colleagues and leadership
  • Build a strong network of relationships across the Bank to promote 'One Barclays'.
  • Work with internal stakeholders including Operations, Credit, Legal, Compliance to offer value add solutions in Trade Finance
  • Work with Operations & Corporate Services to ensure that customer service levels are maintained at all time. Support any training requirement in Corporate Services / Operations.
  • Refer new clients to the Coverage Team to develop a full relationship with Barclays UAE.
Decision-making and Problem Solving

  • Create presentations to clients on Barclays Trade Finance solutions.
  • Identify the client needs and work with the Trade Finance team to develop innovative trade finance solutions
  • Compile a weekly / monthly trade origination report showing, target clients, origination revenue, pipeline origination revenue, competitor information, percentage budget achieved year to date and client satisfaction/complaints etc
Risk and Control Objective

Ens
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