Trade Finance Manager

We are looking for an experienced Trade Finance Manager to lead the origination, structuring, and execution of trade-finance opportunities while developing relationships across the banking, factoring, insurance, logistics, and trade ecosystem. The role will be responsible for building the trade-finance business from beta stage into a scalable, repeatable operation, including processes, products, partnerships, and commercial models. Key Responsibilities Originate and assess trade-finance opportunities from exporters, importers, manufacturers, banks, and strategic partners.

Understand clients’ trade transactions and identify their financing and working-capital needs.

Structure suitable export finance, import finance, receivables finance, factoring, and structured trade-finance solutions .

Identify and negotiate with local/international banks, factors, credit insurers, and trade-finance institutions to secure suitable financing.

Prepare transaction proposals and compare financing terms, pricing, tenor, security, and risk requirements.

Manage transactions from origination and structuring through documentation and financial closing .

Build and maintain relationships across the banking, factoring, insurance, logistics, and trade ecosystem .

Develop and manage a strong pipeline of trade-finance opportunities.

Support the development of new solutions such as bonded-warehouse/inventory finance and international trade-finance lines .

Help build the trade-finance business from beta stage into a scalable, repeatable operation , including processes, products, partnerships, and commercial models.

Ensure transactions are aligned with regulatory, compliance, and risk requirements .

7+ years of relevant experience in Trade Finance, Corporate Banking, Structured Trade Finance, Financial Institutions, Export Finance, Factoring, or Supply Chain Finance.

Strong practical knowledge of: Letters of Credit (LCs)

Documentary Collections

Letters of Guarantee

Import/Export Finance

Receivables & Factoring

Working-Capital Finance

Credit Insurance

Buyer/Counterparty Risk

Trade documentation and international payment terms

Strong understanding of bank credit assessment, trade-finance pricing, security structures, and foreign-currency transactions .

Existing relationships with Egyptian banks, exporters/importers, factors, insurers, or international financial institutions is a major advantage.

Experience with inventory finance, bonded warehousing, or warehouse-controlled financing is highly desirable.

Strong business development and relationship-management skills with proven ability to originate opportunities.

Entrepreneurial, commercially minded, and comfortable building processes and solutions from scratch .

Strong negotiation, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.