Structured Trade Finance Manager
Job Description
Background
Mercuria's Structured Trade Finance team originates, structures, financing solutions to support physical commodity flows and related assets, across the commodities we trade. We're looking for a Structured Finance Manager to support deal execution across structuring, syndication, and bank/investor distribution across the region.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead bilateral trade financing facility set up with banks across Asia and China. Including structuring, negotiation, reviewing and execution
- Support the Manager in a broader range of structured financing transactions, including:
- Term loan
- Borrowing base facilities
- Prepayment/ PXF
- Inventory and receivables financing
- ECA financing etc.
- Draft and negotiate term sheets, facility agreements, and security documentation alongside external legal counsel
- Manage documentation workstreams including drafting term sheets and facility agreements, coordinating internal stakeholders (credit, legal, trading, compliance) and external parties (lenders, counsel)
- Monitor deal covenants, drawdowns, and ongoing facility administration
- Build and maintain relationships with banks and financial institutions
- Assist in developing new financing structures
Required Skills & Experience
- 6–10 years of relevant experience in structured trade finance, corporate banking, commodity finance, treasury, or a related financial services role.
- Experience supporting cross-border financing transactions and coordinating with banks, legal counsel and internal stakeholders.
- Industry knowledge of the commodities we trade and finance, and their underlying markets, supply chains, and price dynamics
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills; comfortable working directly with external legal counsel
- Pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach to deal execution, able to navigate complexity and competing priorities under deal timelines
- Excellent stakeholder management — able to coordinate across credit, legal, trading, and external counterparties
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in finance, law, economics, or related field; relevant professional qualifications a plus
- Fluent in English, and able to read Chinese documents is an advantage
More Info
Key Skills
facility agreements
structured trade finance
drafting term sheets
cross-border financing
commodity finance
About Company
Skills:
term sheets , Security Documentation, Term Loan Prepayments, ECA financing, Borrowing base facilities, Structured Trade Finance, Receivables financing, Facility agreements
Skills:
Security Documentation, inventory and receivables financing, acquisition financing, lending structures, Due Diligence, facility agreements, ECA financing, bridge loans, Term Loan, borrowing base facilities, drafting term sheets, Negotiation, cross-border financing transactions, deal execution, prepayment PXF facilities
Skills:
Credit Risk Management, collateral-based financing, Trade Finance, portfolio data analytics, structured lending
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Skills:
Structured Trade Finance, Cash Management, Trade Finance, Commodity Finance
Skills:
Analytical Skills, Credit writing, Financial analysis, Cash Flow Projections, Credit Reports, Commodities Structured Trade Finance, Syndication trade finance, Mandarin, Credit assessments