Mandarin speaking settlements officer

Title: Mandarin Chinese SETTLEMENTS OFFICER

Sector: Banking/Financial services/broking

Location : City of London (4 days in the office)

Language required: Fluent Mandarin and English

Sponsorship provided : No

Hours: 8.30am-5.30pm

Salary: £45,000 per annum + excellent benefits

The Company : This is a very exciting role within the fast-growth business area of finance and energy, and is a role where you will be using your previous Settlements experience. You will be joining one of China’s largest businesses with strong relationships across 100 countries and regions. It is a highly prestigious company , well respected and successful and you will be expected to ” hit-the-ground-running”.

The role: This is a key appointment and you will be reporting to the Senior Manager in London with a functional reporting line to Head Office in Hong Kong.

Duties

• Cash management – Reporting flow of cash in and out of the company. Liaising with other international finance teams
• Collating of Treasury payments
• Advise Treasury where there is an issue such as loan rates too high/banks not processing payments etc
• Checking/Processing of payment instructions
• Booking/Reconciling of loans/loan positions with house banks
• Managing SWIFT requests, Bank Audit Letters, Returned Payments/Unallocated Receipts, Bank statement reconciliation against in-house systems/payment instructions.
• Producing Debtors/Creditors reports to identify where payments have not been made on time/funds have not been received on due date.
• Capture and maintain banking information for compliance reasons
• Awareness of issues/sanctions regarding the worldwide remittance of funds

Requirements

• Degree educated
• Previous experience of working in the settlement or treasury department of a major bank or commodity house
• Fluent in Mandarin & English
• experience with oil and gas/energy (not essential)