Job Description

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions:

Swiss Re is one of the world\'s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide.

About the Role & Team:

The Trade Finance team sits within our global Credit & Surety team. As part of the build out of our global Trade Finance team, we are looking for a geographic lead for our Asia-Pacific trade finance business. Your role will be a mix of transactional underwriting, client and broker relationship management, geographic sub-PnL management, portfolio steering and team management/leadership. All our underwriters follow a client relationship and a transaction "End to End", combining client management with individual transaction underwriting assessment and sign-off. This role is a hands-on underwriting role and management role with a team of two to three direct reports.

The role of the global team is to provide insurance capacity and solutions for leading Trade Finance banks and other financial institutions for cross border trade transactions as well as limited solutions for corporate clients. This involves an international work environment with a global scope and customer base. The role will include extensive contact with clients and brokers.

The opportunity:

After an appropriate period of onboarding and training, the expectation is that you quickly assume responsibilities within the team and add value by being able to:

• Analyze trade finance deals end to end independently including pricing, risk, terms, documentation etc. across the full spectrum of trade finance and non-trade deals (corporate and FI obligors) and document same with concise deal memos; and provide guidance to other underwriters on same
• Provide deep expertise in underwriting single-risk and portfolio structures on corporate and FI obligors
• Overall financial management, setting/achieving profitable growth targets and forecasting for geography (pipeline, renewals tracking), i.e. geographic sub-PnL and alignment to the global PnL
• Overall portfolio steering for geography including country, geography diversification and achievement of low loss ratio targets
• Represent trade finance in the geography internally and externally recognized by the market (clients and brokers)
• Create and manage a client and broker plan for the geography to deepen the existing client and broker base and support new client acquisition
• Manage the trade finance operating model for the geography including using global resources for lean team management
• Ensure robust operational excellence working closely with operations teams including e-signatures change management
• Be a valuable contributor to the Trade Finance leadership "TF Board" connecting with all the other global TF Geographic leads, Product Leads and product specialists
• Present transactions to internal stakeholders and defend team positions with energy
• Identify, monitor and innovate around relevant market, economic and legal developments
• Provide training to other underwriters
• Lead marketing, thought leadership and event initiatives for the geography
• Provide input to team and wider global strategic initiatives with opportunities to also lead the same
• People management for a team of two to three direct reports including development, succession planning and training as well as alignment with the global team
• Work in a collegiate high-performance global team environment

About You:

• You have at least 12-15 years\' experience with a bank, other financial institution (FI) or insurance firm or broker in Trade Finance or Credit Insurance
• You have advanced to expert understanding of assessing credit obligors, financials and structures (corporates and FI obligors) coupled with a graduate degree
• You have deep experience with insurance brokers and insurance policy wordings (and also risk participation agreements, a plus)
• You have experience with trade finance products and non-trade corporate loans and a wide array of Asia Pacific obligor locations and markets
• You have experience steering a portfolio of risks including managing commodities aggregations
• Strong experience in client-facing transactional roles with a customer focus and service mentality (internal and external)
• You have experience managing and developing a small team
• First-rate communication skills and transaction management skills
• Strong ability to digest numeric, financial and other data/information into concise messaging
• Strong interest in corporate and FI risks, wide-ranging industries, economic interdependencies, financial analysis, in particular applied to a range of economies and transactions around the world particularly in Asia-pacific
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail combined with an open and curious mindset
• Inclusive team player with "hands on" approach
• You enjoy a high-performance collaborative culture
• You have a solution-oriented mentality
• You have high cultural sensitivity and ability to work in a robust international, multicultural and complex environment
• You can work under pressure with competing deadlines
• You are happy to occasionally adjust hours from time to time to overlap with US and European time zones for key meetings
• You are fluent in English (other business-relevant languages are a plus)

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Swiss Re is one of the world\'s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

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