World Fuel Services Corporation (NYSE: INT) is a Fortune 500 company providing aviation, marine and land energy, logistics, and technology solutions to customers and suppliers around the world. Our global team of local professionals delivers innovative products and services at more than 8,000 global locations.
With revenues in excess of $27 billion and over 5,000 employees worldwide, World Fuel Services offers its customers a value-added outsource service for supply, quality control, logistical support and price risk management.
Position Summary
This role will be tasked with the responsibility for assessing and monitoring the credit risk of the Marine portfolio covering Asia, Indian Subcontinent, Australasia, and managing of the Marine Credit team based in Singapore whenever necessary.
https://marine.wfscorp.com/
Core duties and responsibilities include:
- Overall assessment of credit risk for assigned geography, timely delivery of high-quality output, highlighting of concerns and risks, questioning rising exposures and understanding the implications, etc.
- Managing credit requests/exposures, reviewing credit lines as market events and company credit policy dictates.
- Regularly engaging with existing and potential clients, which will include dialogue on phone calls, videoconferences, office visits and international travel.
- Engaging with the Commercial teams globally to build relationships and to provide credit input/support.
- Ability to independently interact with senior leaders and present recommendations in a professional and compelling manner.
- Informing senior management of any material collections related issues as soon as identified.
- Working closely with the Legal and other departments on the collection of receivables.
- Keeping abreast of market changes and counterparty news and having the ability to anticipate their potential impacts on the Marine portfolio.
- Mentor and be role model to junior members of the Marine Credit team based in Singapore.
Key Requirements:
- A minimum of five (5) years’ of experience in marine bunker credit; or applicable relevant shipping experience (e.g. ship finance, shipping research, ship brokers).
- Strong knowledge of the shipping markets and the major groups, operators, families etc within. A clear understanding of the commodity markets and the ability to monitor changes.
- Excellent communication skills in English, candidate who is able to understand Mandarin(reading and speaking) would be a huge plus to liaise with Greater China regional team.
- Excellent communication skills, and the confidence to liaise with senior leaders in the organisation.
- Flexible approach to work, comprising of undertaking duties often outside of office hours to international travel to meet clients face to face.
- Resilience in the face of time sensitive working environments.
- Ability to multi-task everyday – handling credit requests, liaising with clients, attending meetings/calls, assessing credit reviews etc.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Ability to be independently minded and willing to enact positive changes to all facets of the credit process.
- Must have the confidence to be decisive, executing difficult credit decisions, often under time constraints.
- Excellent analytical skills, including the assessment of financial statements.
- A thorough understanding of legal documentation and collateralisation including, corporate guarantees, Letters of Credit, NDAs etc.
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