Shell UK | Senior London Trade Finance Manager

Responsibilities

• Join a high-impact Trade Finance team at the heart of global commodity trading, where you'll help safeguard commercial transactions, optimize banking relationships, and enable business growth across EMEA and the Americas.
• This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing risk management, stakeholder engagement, and complex financial negotiations to support secure and efficient trading activity.
• Reporting to the Global Head of Trade Finance, the London Trade Finance Senior Manager is a key role in the team, providing trade finance expertise and core capabilities in the credit risk management of Shell’s Trading & Supply (T&S) businesses in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions.
• The role has a wide number of interfaces across the Global Trade Finance team, Commercial and Finance stakeholders across the T&S organisation, Treasury, as well as with banks, insurance companies and other external institutions.
• Act as primary focal point on trade finance risk management and strategy matters to all key senior commercial and financial stakeholders across the T&S EMEA region.
• Work closely with the global Trade Finance team (London, Singapore and Manila SBO) to provide advice and training as needed to ensure high calibre trade finance advice is available to the global T&S organisation.
• Ensure Bank Limits for EMEA T&S sales reflect future utilisation for spikes in oil and gas price to ensure transfer of risk to financial institutions to avoid catastrophic losses.
• Act as credit interface to KYC and trade controls team for new and existing bank relationships and sanctions queries, including reverse bank KYC requests.
• Manage import and export Documentary LCs, including complex structures such as advance payment, tripartite agreements and extended payment terms.
• Support the ambitious T&S business growth agenda by identifying global best practice solutions and championing the learning behaviours expected throughout the team.
• Ensure that relevant policies (e.g. Global Shell Trading Credit Manual and Manual of Authorities) are fit for purpose and that all commercial activities entered into by the EMEA portfolio of T&S entities and remain in compliance.
• Foster a culture of knowledge and best practice sharing across all levels and locations, to support professional development across the trade finance team.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Make an impact in one of the world’s leading energy trading businesses.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

What you bring

• Exposure report governance, daily overdue report and late payment monitoring.
• Significant years of experience in trade finance within a trading environment or bank.
• Experience in negotiating and drafting trade finance documents and managing and negotiating credit facilities with banks.
• Strong communication, business partnering and influencing skills across all levels of management.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage conflicting priorities in a highly time pressured environment.
• Knowledge of ETRM systems (such as Endur, DEX and SAP).

Shell UK

Shell UK is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in London - Shell Centre and London York Road.