Senior Manager – Trade Finance - Scymes Services Pvt Ltd - Bengaluru
(2024-05 - 2025-12)
Traydstream Project – Client Deutsche Bank – Bengaluru
- Monitoring Import and Export Documents checking for Germany, APAC & EMEA
- LC Advising
- Collaborating across business, operations, technology, and vendor teams in Agile or hybrid delivery environments
- Supporting UAT and guiding business/operations users through trade finance scenarios and functional sign-off
- Proven experience acting as a Trade Finance Subject Matter Expert on digitalization, core banking, or trade system implementation
- Ability to work under pressure and support time-sensitive testing cycles, especially during critical Trade Finance go-lives, regulatory changes, or system upgrades
Vice President - Trade Finance - Yes Bank Ltd
(2023-06 - 2023-12)
- Trade Finance Operations, Buyers Credit payment LC payments, cross currency payments under the LC, FX treasury and Forward contract and FX Online
- Lien removal under FLC and standby LC, FD Premat, Bill of entry, Outward and Inward Remittances through Oracle Flexcube
- Bill of entry processing, New Gen monitoring, Swift messages, MT202 and MT103 payment
- LAI financing and Repayments, Working Capital financing
- Amlock screening, RBI regulations, FEDAI rules, Fund Monitoring
- Nostro Reconciliation, Bill Devolvements, Credence Reporting, Document Checking, Collection Payments LAI and Buyers credit Prepayments
Assistant Manager - GTRF - HSBC Electronic Data Processing India Pvt Ltd
(2021-05 - 2023-06)
- Handling Export Document Checking Mena Regions for the client and processing within SLA
- Recording and Approving the bills of Mena Regions on Approval and Clean basis for in house/group and non-group bills
- Complying with Global operating policies & procedure and sanction policies on each transaction
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matter
- Managed relationships with corporate bank partners, overseeing cash management services and implementing new technology platforms
Senior Consultant – Project Consulting - Ernst and Young LLP
(2021-01 - 2021-04)
- Handling UAE and Qatar Export Document Checking for the client and processing within SLA
- Recording the bills for UAE and Qatar Region on Approval and Clean basis for in house/group and non-group bills
- Complying with Global operating policies & procedure and sanction policies on each transaction
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matter
- Strong understanding of end-to-end trade finance operations and transaction lifecycles, including charges and commissions, limits, collateral, settlements, and exception handling
- Experience advising on functional data mapping between front-end/workflow systems and a core banking system
SR Associate Corporate Operations - Mashreq Global Services Pvt Ltd
(2018-10 - 2021-01)
- Handling Islamic banking lending, export discounting products like clean and confirmed LC, Unconfirmed LC, UPAS LC Sight LC in Oracle flexcube (OBTFPM, OBCL & OBPM)
- Processing acceptance received from issuing bank and marking in flex system
- Honoring reimbursement claims received from claiming bank through MT 742
- Issuance of reimbursement undertaking by the request of issuing bank and also handling reimbursement refinancing request
- Downloading the acceptance received in MT 732, MT 752, MT754 & MT756
- Process discounting for irrevocable and transferable credit
- As per the client request assignment of proceeds is done through MT 103 respectively
- Relaying the acceptance message to presenting bank through MT 799 & MT 999 and following issuing bank through provide acceptances
- To establish and maintain excellent working relationship with the clients to ensure the prompt and effective response to various business requirements, queries and request from them
- Comply with group Sanctions policy and local Sanctions policy and procedures effectively
- Collaborative team player with the ability to build effective working relationships across business, technology, and vendor teams
SR Executive - GTRF - HSBC HDPI
(2007-11 - 2018-09)
- Extensive professional and entrepreneurial expertise in Trade Finance (Import/Export/Open Acc Finance Products)
- Certified Documentary Credit Specialist (CDCS) OCT 2017 Batch
- Strong knowledge in UCP600, ISBP745, URR522, INCO TERMS and Cross border payment methods (Mt103, Mt202 and Mt202 cov)
- Proficiency in Managing Trade Finance and Treasury operations with key focus on service delivery, customer satisfaction and business requirements by ensuring optimal utilization of all the resources available
- Ability to lead and motivate people, Energetic in nature
- Talent in identifying and streamlining complex process
- Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in team management, Maintaining excellent rapport with country
- Interested in Learning New things and eager to meet New Challenges
- Referring to respective relationship managers in case of any customer discrepancies through phone
- Complying with AML policies, Sanctions policies, procedures and compliance requirement
- Performed user acceptance testing cases frequently
- Implementation and Completion of UAT testing on products of Trade Finance Operations
- Assisted in developing test cases and test strategy for conducting UAT
- Performing SIT when the systems are upgraded
- Creating the test cases based on business requirements, outlining the problems, opportunities and solutions for business for the documentary credit product
- Regression testing performed end to end of the products as per organization policy
- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Preparing Test cases and Test plan for different products in Trade Finance and documenting the output with valid and invalid data
CSE - Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India - MAGUS CUSTOMER DIALOG PRIVATE LIMITED
- Provide information on memberships benefits and products to new customers
- Handling customer queries on memberships availed
- Providing detailed view on payments status
- Handle bookings of resorts for customers and non-customers and providing confirmation voucher
