Trade Finance SME

As a Trade Finance SME, you will support a core banking transformation programme for a client in the Philippines, taking ownership of the Trade Finance product stream and ensuring the target solution meets business and regulatory requirements. You will play a hands-on role across solution design, integration, testing, migration, and go-live activities while working closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, and product vendors.

What You’ll Do and How You’ll Succeed

MULTIVENDOR, MULTI-COUNTRY TEAM

• Analyse and document trade finance requirements across the Letters of Credit (LC), Guarantees, and Collections lifecycle.
• Support the design of trade finance integrations with upstream and downstream systems, including General Ledger (GL), payments, lending, and reporting platforms.
• Act as the subject matter expert for the Trade Finance product/module throughout requirements analysis, solution design, build, testing, and cutover phases.
• Partner directly with product vendors to clarify capabilities, configuration options, constraints, and gaps, and drive decisions for the target system design.
• Lead or contribute to workshops with business stakeholders, interface teams, Solution Architecture teams, and platform vendors to gather, validate, and refine requirements.
• Prepare and own Interface Specification Documents (ISDs), as well as functional and technical design documentation, and drive review and sign-off processes with relevant teams.
• Support solution design for integrations using MQ, REST/SOAP APIs, and file-based interfaces.
• Contribute to SIT and UAT planning and execution, resolve integration issues, and coordinate defect remediation with vendors and delivery teams.
• Support data mapping, migration validation, and reconciliation activities related to the Trade Finance module.
• Contribute to cutover planning and provide hypercare support through go-live.
• Manage stakeholders across business, technology, and vendor teams, proactively identifying and escalating risks and issues.

We’d Love to Hear From You If...

Experience

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, including substantial hands-on experience in core banking transformation and implementation programmes.
• Hands-on experience implementing a trade finance platform such as Trade360 or an equivalent solution as part of a core banking transformation.
• Proven ability to work as an individual contributor, independently driving solution design, documentation, reviews, and approvals.
• Experience preparing and obtaining sign-off for Interface Specification Documents (ISDs) and integration design artefacts.

Technical Expertise

• Strong functional knowledge of LC issuance and amendment processes, Guarantees, and Collections lifecycle processing.
• Experience defining trade finance integrations with GL, payments, and reporting systems.
• Experience supporting integrations through MQ, REST/SOAP APIs, and file-based interfaces.

Ways of Working

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across business, technology, vendor, and Solution Architecture teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting solution options to senior stakeholders and vendors.

Philippines