Full-Time
Senior Trade Transactor
Transaction Banking, Corporate & Investment Banking
Posted on 8/21/2026
Standard Bank Group
African banking and financial services
No salary listed
London, UK
In Person
Bachelor's
Category
 Finance & Banking (1) |
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Required Skills
Sales
Financial analysis
Risk Management
Requirements
- Strong client engagement skills.
- Trade Finance experience.
- Structured trade and commodity finance and vanilla trade experience.
- More than 10 years of experience originating and converting Transaction Banking opportunities within large corporate and institutional client segments.
- More than 10 years of experience in Trade Finance, Structured Trade Finance, and Working Capital Solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to structure complex, bespoke solutions addressing trade flows, supply chains, liquidity needs, and cross-border business requirements.
- Strong commercial and financial analysis skills, including the ability to identify opportunities through client financial statements, operating models, and transaction flows.
- An established network of senior client decision-makers with a proven ability to leverage relationships to generate new business opportunities.
- Experience leading complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions involving multiple stakeholders across Product, Credit, Risk, and Coverage teams.
- A strong understanding of international trade dynamics, market developments, digital disruption, and emerging business models.
- Ability to develop clear client value propositions aligned to client needs and focused on creating differentiated client experience and value.
- Ability to formulate a compelling vision and articulate the benefits and future applications of solutions, trends, and client impacts across the Transaction Banking solution landscape.
- Ability to identify opportunities across Transaction Banking to expand and influence the market, client, and industry through digital and data disruptors.
- Ability to simplify Sales ways of working, processes, and measures to enable transparency, better controls, and speed to market.
- Ability to predict trends affecting local and broader contexts and interpret their impact on client planning and revenues.
- Ability to use and package macro-environment and relationship insights to manage client relationships and sustainable solutioning, aligned to overarching strategy and priorities.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor, originator, and thought leader to generate new income streams and identify strategic business opportunities.
- Lead Transaction Banking engagements across Corporate and Investment Banking.
- Originate and structure complex trade, working capital, and transaction banking solutions for clients across multiple geographies and industries.
- Leverage a professional network and deep market knowledge to identify opportunities, develop bespoke client solutions, and drive sustainable revenue growth.
- Act as a recognised Transaction Banking advisor and client-facing originator by leveraging industry relationships, market insights, and existing client relationships to identify and convert new business opportunities.
- Develop and maintain relationships with corporate, institutional, fintech, trader, treasury, and industry networks to identify market opportunities, generate deal flow, and enhance the bank's market presence.
- Originate new business opportunities by identifying client challenges, industry trends, and market gaps and translating them into commercially viable Transaction Banking solutions.
- Represent the bank at industry forums, conferences, and client engagements, positioning it as a leading provider of trade, working capital, and transaction banking solutions.
- Lead the structuring of complex trade, working capital, and transaction banking solutions addressing client growth, liquidity, supply chain, and cross-border trade objectives.
- Analyse client business models, financial statements, transaction flows, and strategic priorities to develop tailored commercial solutions that create measurable client value and sustainable bank returns.
- Collaborate with Product, Credit, Risk, Legal, and Operations teams to structure innovative and commercially viable solutions aligned with client requirements and the bank's risk appetite.
- Create differentiated client propositions and multi-year solution strategies by combining Transaction Banking capabilities into bespoke offerings.
- Lead solution design, structuring, and negotiation processes from origination through execution and implementation.
- Check client revenues against the sales force plan and resolve variances with clients based on projected revenues and conditions.
- Work with Brand and Marketing to leverage the deal brand externally and enable targeted, bespoke approaches.
- Prioritise and manage assigned work, take responsibility for personal development and career progression, and deliver agreed tasks and targets.
Standard Bank Group is a financial services organization centered on Africa. It provides personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth services, payments and related financial products across multiple African markets and selected international centers. Customers range from individuals and entrepreneurs to governments and multinational companies. The group combines regulated local banking operations with cross-border expertise, using its regional network to support savings, lending, transactions, investment and trade rather than operating as a single-country retail bank.
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