• Holding responsibility and ownership of finance, accounts, tax, and reporting requirements across group entities while ensuring compliance with both internal and external policies and regulatory requirements.• Leading the global month-end closing processes and maintaining oversight over day-to-day finance operations.• Collaborating with external auditors, tax advisors, lawyers, and bankers to ensure successful cooperation and compliance on wider strategic and cross functional projects.• Facilitating credit structuring for moderate and/or long-term sophisticated transactions and financing facilities, working alongside Trading, Operations, Legal, and other functions.• Working proactively to facilitate commercial growth of the group through managing and controlling the financial key drivers of liquidity, capital structure and competitive edge with awareness of risks and control accountabilities.

• Facilitated commodity Trade Finance desk with cross-functional teams at Geneva, Mumbai, Dubai, and Singapore, from entry-level analysts to managers, collaborated with business development, trading, and operations departments for products like Oil, Coal, Agri, Steel, and Bunkering.• Successfully negotiated and arranged trade finance transactions between companies from the Middle East, Singapore, London, and USA.• Mediated Trade Finance facility with Banks and Non-Banking Financial Institutions across the globe • Co-ordinated issuance and negotiation of Letter of Credits (Documentary and Stand By), Guarantees, and Bonds. Directed and worked over 1500 letter of credits from value USD 10 thousand to USD 80 Million in 7 years. • Arranged Structured Trade Financing and Storage Financing. Operated on Stock and Sale models basis CMA / SMA / HC. • Communicated Trade Finance and MIS reports to Senior Management for effective control and monitoring on daily basis, resulting in a reduction of trade costs including demurrages, insurance, bank financing costs.

• Prepared and applied Letter of Credit (L/C) including Inland, Foreign & Bank Guarantee.• Prepared and applied Bonds (Bid and Performance) with the banks. • Prepared documents as per contract and LC terms and execute all Export & Import Documentation. • Coordinated L/C negotiation / discounting with banks in Europe, Middle East, India and Singapore. • Advised discrepancies via email to bank / customers and handling acceptance messages. • Followed up for acceptance of export documents and payment for Financed / Non-Financed bills. • Maintained an MIS for both Import payments and export collection as per the lodgments of documents to know the timing of forex inflow & outflow.

• Initial setup of the company in Dubai and managed Trade Finance and International Business in Middle East. • Established group’s UAE office and initiated relationships with the local customs office, shipping, and trading companies thus enhancing presence in the Middle East. • Ensured full compliance of the commercial and financial documents with the specifications of the Letter of Credit, Documents against Payment, and Documents against Acceptance. • Initiated Trust Receipts (TR’s), Repayments, Remittances. Provided support to Operations, Trading, Risk, Pricing, Insurance, and Auditing desks daily.

Worked on Trade Documentation. Dealt with Suppliers and Customers. Application of Export and Import laws on the transactions. Gathering Product knowledge & implemented marketing strategies in Middle east.