Structured Trade Finance Senior Advisor

Structured Trade Finance Advisor

The Structured Trade Finance Advisor will be an integral member of both the Global Trading Finance and Origination teams with a focus on supporting origination activity. The role reports to the Trade Finance Manager for Global Trading and works closely with the global Structured Trade Finance Chief.

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively develop deal structures using structured trade finance tools to enable origination activity and to develop funding and other solutions for third parties.
• Prepays to producers for term offtake and pre-export financing.
• Asset‑backed lending.
• Inventory finance on behalf of suppliers and/or buyers for waterborne cargoes in transit, pipeline transport, and land‑based storage.
• Refinery intermediation, tolling/processing agreements.
• Extended payment terms to buyers, potentially secured.
• Asset management agreements (AMAs).
• Lead a regional deal team that develops and syndicates standard and bespoke financing structures, providing the Global Trading Origination team with a competitive advantage.
• Build and support associated banking/syndication relationships to ensure the timely placement of deals and to provide market insights relevant to Global Trading.
• Contribute in all aspects of structured trade and commodity finance transactions—from complex modeling to non‑numerical activities such as term sheet development, credit and due diligence review, structuring and documentation, report writing, contract review, and presentation to key stakeholders and senior management.
• Apply appropriate financing techniques to complex situations while considering portfolio and stakeholder impact and understanding how risk and return are split across the structure from both an ExxonMobil and syndication market perspective.
• Coordinate with origination, legal and other teams to fully analyse transactions and ensure appropriate documentation, risk mitigations, and limits to minimise defaults and maximise recoveries, including security/collateral arrangements.
• Ensure transactions comply with corporate funding strategies, approved instruments/structures, return metrics, and Trading strategies and policies.
• Improve financial, risk & optimisation valuation models and techniques to support commercial activity, including valuation and pricing of credit, working capital and optionality.
• Collaborate across Global Trading and Finance Functions to achieve the best business outcome, coordinating input from Credit, Law, Risk, Compliance, and Financial Accounting.

Key Interfaces

• Global Structured Trade Finance Manager
• Regional / Global Trading Origination teams
• Broader Finance & Risk team (Risk & Compliance, GBS Credit, Tax, & Controllers)
• Additional support functions (Planning & Stewardship, Law, Treasurers, etc.)

Systems

• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI)
• Salesforce

Skills and Qualifications

Employment/Work Experience: experience at a trading house, bank, or major oil company directly handling commodity finance, trade finance, and structured transactions; a track record of closing complex financings with excellent commercial, negotiation and deal structuring skills; financial background in capital markets.

Experience level: significant experience (8+ years); Associate Director/Director‑level position.

Education: Finance, Economics, Business or other technical degrees.

Skill sets & experience:

• Highly entrepreneurial and commercial mindset
• Significant financial acumen and analytical skills
• Deal structuring experience and the ability to develop new and innovative solutions
• Ability to solve complex problems and work independently as part of a multifunctional team
• Understanding of drivers and dynamics of structured trade and commodity finance markets
• Good understanding of risk management and mitigation strategies
• Counterparty negotiation experience
• Ability to effectively interface and influence both externally and internally
• Understanding of tax, accounting, legal, compliance and regulatory implications in deal structuring and operationalisation
• Collaborative approach to working on joint initiatives across geographies and cultures
• Strategic thinking, strong business and commercial insight and judgement
• Knowledge of credit derivatives and foreign exchange markets (desired)

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