Senior Middle Officer – Trade Finance – Madagascar Closed  

For one of our clients, a Bank based in Madagascar, we are seeking to recruit a Senior Middle Officer with a strong knowledge of Commodities Middle Office. The trade finance Senior Middle Officer will manage a team of 5 people who are responsible for reviewing, supporting, and processing a wide variety of commodity transactions.

Your Mission:

• Work with the Middle-Office Operations department alongside the Back Office and Front Office teams to review, support, and process a wide variety of Commodity transactions.
• Perform daily position/reconciliation.
• Perform and review trade bookings related to Commodities and other Banking products on internal systems.
• Work in collaboration with different bank units to deliver audit - and redesign where required- procedures and controls for commodity financing and physical trading business.
• Act as a central point of contact for query processing from counterparties and clients.
• Oversee the collateral management process including various control.
• Proactively highlight areas of risk and escalate accordingly.
• Monitor and process trade lifecycle events throughout the life of the trade.
• Responsible for ensuring that all controls of Middle Office for all activities are performed in a timely and accurate manner, as per the procedures.

Your profile:

• Over 10 years of experience working within a commodities group or an established bank.
• Experience with supporting structured transactions.
• Fully fluent in English and French fully.
• Hard-working and result-oriented.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.