Trade & Finance Operations Analyst

About the Role
This position is responsible for supporting the end-to-end processing and administration of Letter of Credit (LC) transactions, ensuring that all trade finance activities are accurately recorded, properly documented, and completed in accordance with banking requirements, LC terms and conditions, UCP 600 rules, and internal procedures.
The work model for the role is: Onsite. This role is contributing to the Electrification in UAE.

Your Responsibilities
You will be mainly accountable for ensuring effective coordination between the Business, banks, and internal stakeholders to minimize operational, financial, and compliance risks associated with LC transactions. Key responsibilities include:

• Receiving original LC issuance, amendment, and negotiation documents from banks to ensure proper control and availability for processing and reference.
• Updating the LC tracker and maintaining accurate transaction records to provide visibility over the status of each LC, supporting timely follow-up, and ensuring proper audit trails and document traceability.
• Ensuring proper custody and safekeeping of original LC documents to protect important trade documents from loss, unauthorized access, or misplacement for future reference, audit, and settlement requirements.
• Reviewing LC submission documents and interpreting applicable terms and conditions to identify documentation requirements, critical dates, and potential discrepancies before submitting documents to the bank.
• Preparing, arranging, and verifying documents against the LC terms and required document list to ensure submissions are complete and accurate, which reduces the risk of discrepancies, rejection, delays, or potential financial exposure.
• Applying detailed knowledge of LC terms, UCP 600 rules, and customer-specific requirements to process trade documents in accordance with applicable international trade finance standards and banking practices.
• Following up on document acceptance, discrepancies, and bank queries to ensure timely resolution of issues, facilitating smooth completion of LC transactions and reducing processing delays.
• Preparing LC discounting requests in accordance with Business instructions and approvals to support timely access to trade-related financing, ensuring that requests submitted to the bank are complete, accurate, and appropriately authorized.

Qualifications for the Role
Education

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Banking, Business Administration, or Economics; a Master’s degree is a bonus.
• Professional certification in Documentary Credits or International Banking is an advantage.
• 5–7 years of relevant experience in Letter of Credit handling, trade finance, documentary credits, and international banking operations.
• Hands-on experience with LC issuance, advising, amendments, confirmation, document presentation, examination, negotiation, discrepancy management, and settlement.

Skills

• Strong attention to detail and document-review skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and reconciliation abilities.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate with banks, customers, and internal business and finance teams.
• Ability to manage multiple LCs, deadlines, amendments, discrepancies, and high-volume transactions while maintaining accuracy and compliance.
• Strong understanding of risk controls, compliance requirements, and internal financial procedures.
• Preferably having receivable collection experience and knowledge of SAP.

What's in it for You?
We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You will grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals. Your contributions will be a part of something bigger.

Benefits
From well-being to retirement, we offer benefits that support every stage of your career.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world.