DEPARTMENT: FINANCE

JOB TITLE: MANAGER TRADE AND STRUCTURED FINANCE – RE-ADVERTISED (1 VACANCY)

• Reports To: Chief Financial Officer

JOB PURPOSE

To lead the designing, structuring, execution, and governance of all trade and structured finance activities to support crude oil marketing and trading activities for UNOC.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy Execution

• Define and implement the company’s global trade finance strategy, liquidity targets, and commercial strategy.
• Develop internal trade finance governance frameworks, policies, and standard operating procedures.
• Work with the CFO to embed trade finance into the strategic planning cycle, treasury roadmap, and capital allocation decisions.
• Establish performance metrics and KPIs to assess trade finance value contribution, capital efficiency, and return on invested capital.

Product Development & Structuring Innovation

• Design a full suite of structured trade finance solutions to serve the company’s evolving needs.
• Continuously monitor global best practices and introduce emerging tools.
• Build advanced financial models and perform in-depth analysis of both risks and returns to qualify opportunities and support investment decisions.

Commercial Support & Deal Enablement

• Act as an internal partner to the crude oil marketing and trading department, and potentially other downstream teams, embedding financing into commercial workflows.
• Provide deal support for sales and purchase agreements, long-term offtake deals, swap transactions, and spot trade flows.
• Structure tailor-made financing solutions to support third party marketers, JV partners, state agencies, and international customers.
• Anticipate market volatility and align trade finance structures with commercial exposure and price risk strategies.

Financial Institutions Management

• Serve as the primary interface with any global relationship banks, export credit agencies, multilateral institutions, and commodity finance funds.
• Lead or support implementation of any facility structuring and syndication, including pitchbooks, financial models, information memoranda, and bank presentations.

Risk Governance & Portfolio Oversight

• Design and monitor credit frameworks for onboarding, reviewing, and approving counterparties and facilities.
• Ensure adherence to counterparty exposure limits, tenor restrictions, commodity concentration limits, and country risk guidelines.
• Monitor daily utilisation, mark-to-market, liquidity coverage, and collateral positions.
• Design risk-adjusted pricing models and enforce risk-based return-on-capital thresholds.

Legal, Regulatory & ESG Compliance

• Oversee the negotiation and execution of trade finance documentation by the LMA, ISDA, ICC UCP 600, URDG 758, and URC 522 standards.
• Coordinate closely with internal legal, external counsel, and regulators to ensure compliance with global sanctions (OFAC, EU, UN), anti-money laundering, and financial crime regulations.
• Integrate ESG criteria into trade finance products, such as sustainability-linked margins, green trade frameworks, and impact reporting.
• Stay current with tax, transfer pricing, and BEPS implications related to intra-group and cross-border trade finance structures.

Treasury, FX & Liquidity Integration

• Coordinate with the treasury team to optimise the deployment of trade finance lines, ensuring they meet working capital, margin, and hedging needs.
• Maintain dynamic liquidity forecasts incorporating drawdown timing, repayment schedules, and margining requirements.
• Drive synergies between trade finance, cash management, and corporate funding strategies.

Systems, Technology & Process Excellence

• Champion the implementation of trade finance technology platforms and interfaces with ERP, Treasury Management Systems, and bank portals.
• Develop internal dashboards and business intelligence (BI) tools for real-time monitoring of facility utilisation, counterparty exposure, and risk thresholds.
• Drive the digital transformation of processes involving Letters of Credit (LCS), Standby Letters of Credit (SBLCS), guarantees, and receivables documentation.

Team Leadership & Capacity Building

• Recruit, train, and manage a high-performing team across structuring, execution, operations, and risk functions.
• Promote knowledge transfer and internal development through mentorship, workshops, and international secondments.
• Promote a strong culture of compliance, ethics, and transparency.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Maintain relations with key strategic customers, sovereign stakeholders, regulators and third party marketers.
• Represent the company at international forums, trade finance summits, and industry panels.
• Maintain ongoing engagement with third party marketers, JV partners, internal audit, and risk committees.
• Provide timely and transparent board-level reporting and recommendations on trade finance performance and opportunities.

Structured Finance for Strategic Projects

• Develop trade-linked finance solutions to support long-term projects.
• Collaborate with project finance, legal, and investment teams to secure offtake-based or blended capital structures.

Intercompany and JV Finance Solutions

• Lead the design of intra-group lending structures to optimise cash and tax positions across subsidiaries and affiliates.
• Structure intercompany prepayments, receivables finance or working capital loans to support supply chain resilience.
• Ensure full regulatory and transfer pricing compliance across internal financing flows.

Working Capital Optimisation

• Negotiate improved payment terms with strategic customers backed by trade credit insurance or factoring.

Claims, Disputes & Workout Scenarios

• Oversee dispute resolution in cases of trade finance-related defaults, document discrepancies, or political risk events.
• Support legal processes in the enforcement of security, debt restructuring, or credit recovery.
• Act as a crisis manager in distressed situations involving failed shipments, sanction breaches, or force majeure events.

Reporting, Controls & Internal Audit Readiness

• Ensure accuracy and integrity in internal and external trade finance reporting.
• Prepare for internal audits, compliance reviews, and external inspections by regulators or lenders.
• Maintain a robust documentation trail for every transaction, including approvals, compliance checks, and facility terms and conditions.

Coordination with Risk Management & Derivatives Desk

• Align structured deals with hedging programs and risk management policies to ensure effective risk management.
• Oversee CSA/ISDA documentation and integration with margining practices.
• Ensure transparency in economic risk exposure from derivatives embedded in trade finance structures.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in Finance, Economics, or related field from a recognised University
• MBA or a relevant Master’s degree is an added advantage
• CFA or equivalent credentials is an added advantage
• Minimum 8 years relevant working experience including at least five (4) years in trade finance.
• Four (4) years at a supervisory/team leader is required
• Experience in structured commodity lending, or physical commodity trading is an added advantage.
• Experience in both commodity trading houses and international banks is desirable.
• Proven track record in executing complex trade finance deals is required
• Exposure to sovereign entities or energy sector public-private partnerships is an added advantage.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Required to have Strong legal and documentation skills.
• High EQ, negotiation capability, and leadership presence
• Expertise in commodity trade flows, credit structuring, and counterparty risk is preferred

Application Procedure & Deadline

Interested persons should submit their applications through the UNOC online recruitment system accessible through:

Uganda National Oil Company Careers Portal

Applications should be submitted not later than Friday, 29th May 2026 by 11:59pm EAT.

Applicants are required to scan and attach CERTIFIED copies of the required academic documents e.g. Relevant Degree Transcript, Postgraduate Diploma or Masters.

For enquiries regarding this advert, contact:

• recruitment.unoc@unoc.com

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