Trade Finance Officer (Senior)

Job description

Rev & Regs are recruiting for a Trade Finance Officer (Senior) role for a dynamic and well-established bank who offer both retail and wholesale banking products and services to private, corporate and institutional clients.

Responsibilities:

• Sound knowledge of UCP 600, URC 522, ISP98, URDG 758, ICC Incoterms 2010 and 2020.
• Understanding of Trade AML and Due Diligence.
• Ability to multi-task and maintain poise under pressure.
• Ensure the expeditious processing of transactions accurately and in line with set service standards, policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Trade due diligence.
• Process Trade transactions.
• To review all transaction monitoring in line with the bank policy to confirm/clear suggested matches and escalating any possible matches to the Head of the Department.
• Maintain a current understanding of money laundering, proliferation Financing and terrorist financing issues, including policies, procedures, regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends.
• Assist with AML Compliance Training.
• Effective supervision of your team to ensure efficiency, strict compliance with controls, capacity management and performance optimisation.
• Ensure awareness and alertness to money laundering risks and adherence to set anti money laundering procedures.
• Strong liaison with the Compliance department, ensuring implementation of compliance policies and procedures and proactively alerting compliance issues.
• Ensure timely identification of point of service failures and the implementation of corrective measures.
• Ensure prompt reconciliation and proofing of all ledger accounts and efficient resolution of long-standing reconciliation items.
• Adopting a zero tolerance for processing errors and ensuring that all errors are identified and addressed same day.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in trade operations.
• Good knowledge of Trade due diligence.
• Experienced back-office professional with strong analytical skills and a proven track record in the financial services industry, preferably a commercial bank.
• Must have excellent understanding of the International Trade operations framework of a financial institution and knowledge of general operational policies.
• Processing and monitoring of trade finance products.
• Thorough knowledge of relevant ICC publication e.g UCP 600, ISBP for Examination of Documents Under Documentary Credit, URR 525, URC 522 and the URDG 758.
• Good experience of SWIFT and relevant message types.

Salary: £50,000 plus bonus

Location: West End of London / 5 days per week in office

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

02-05-2026

Profession type

Accountancy

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English