Senior Relationship Manager Commodity Trade Finance

Join us as a Senior Relationship Manager in our Commodity Trade Finance team. Together with the Transaction Manager you build a strong Front Office team in Geneva and take over the responsibility to develop and maintain a portfolio of clients composed of commodity trading companies based in Switzerland and abroad with the main focus on the Energy business. You conduct new client acquisition, sales activities, and negotiations; put transactional credit lines in place including the related legal documentation in collaboration with Risk Management and Legal; ensure that all compliance related aspects of the relationships have been addressed and accepted as per Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd’s rules; promote collaboration with the deal team, Risk Management, Legal, Product Specialists and the clients; take advantage of one bank (cross-selling) opportunities which can be offered to the clients; as part of the deal team act as clients’ main contact point and to ensure client satisfaction with rapid handling of transactions/opportunities; continuously enhance the client, market and commodity related know-how.

Your future colleagues

The Commodity Trade Finance team is a strong collaborative team who work very close together with the Risk Management and different other departments providing trade finance products. We are a department which values Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) and is committed to realizing the firm’s D&I ambition which is an integral part of our global cultural values.

You’ll be a good match, if you have:

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in commodity trade finance in a similar position
• In depth market knowledge and profound understanding of the international Commodity Trade Finance (modus operandi, documents involved, documentary products, risk evaluation)
• Excellent relationship with clients and ability to identify client needs
• Solid financial analysis knowledge and legal understanding
• The ability to lead and coordinate complex negotiations with external and internal counterparts
• Strong analytical, written and oral communication skills to analyze, structure and promote complex commodity finance transactions
• A strong ability and willingness to work in a team as well as to share know-how
• Fluency in English required; proficiency in French as well as other European languages is a plus
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and tasks, along with orchestrating results across a diverse group of internal partners
• A university degree in economics, business administration or college diploma with higher education
• Understands the value of diversity in the workplace and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture in all aspects of working life so that people from all backgrounds receive equal treatment, realize their full potential and can bring their full, authentic selves to work
• Are you looking for an exciting new challenge and would describe yourself as an empathetic and dedicated personality with strong client oriented skills and a can-do attitude? Are you a motivated and reliable person, passionate about teamwork? Then you would be the perfect fit for our team!

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Mr. Philippe Imfeld would be delighted to receive your application.
Please apply via our career portal.