Treasury & Trade Finance Manager, APAC

We are looking for a Finance Manager, with particular focus and experience in Treasury and Trade Finance, to support the Head of Finance, HK and APAC in treasury cash management, funding, banking relationships, and trade finance activities. This is a hands-on transaction execution role, and duties will also include related financial control and reporting, and strategic initiatives including systems project related activities. The role will partner with the Global Trade Finance & Banking Manager in Geneva, as well as other commercial, operations, logistics, compliance and related sales teams.

Treasury Management

• Actively support cash and liquidity management activities, including inter alia, daily cash requirements from front office sales, effective cash utilization and positioning, funding plans, short and medium-term cash forecasting, and working-capital optimization

• Support the banking relationships across Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific, including account matters

• Manage treasury unadvised facility lines as part of global facilities, develop new facility lines, monitor limits, utilization, collateral, expiry dates, renewals, and facility available headroom

• Monitor and ensure sufficiency of cash-flow funding, foreign-exchange, obtain favorable interest-rate for overnight and longer-tenor deposits

• Strengthen bank mandates, payments, reconciliations, inventory management, and related segregation of duties

• Proactive engagement with and support in ensuring business process flows across Operations and Front Office, are aligned with System Bookings in HK, Head Office, Accounting Ledgers and

Treasury Reporting Finance MI

Trade Finance Management

• Prepare, issue, and manage trade finance instruments, including Letters of Credit (LCs), Standby LCs and bank guarantees

• Review and check commercial and shipping documents (Invoices, Bills of lading, Airway bills, Assay certificates, Insurance, Packing Lists) for compliance with LC terms

• Liaise with correspondent and issuing/advising banks on transaction processing, amendments, discrepancies, and settlements

• Support senior team members in discussions with banks, including preparing information and communicating on transaction and facility matters

• Manage trade finance facilities, monitoring limits, utilization, expiry dates, and renewals

• Partner and coordinate with trading, operations, logistics, refinery/vault teams, Finance, Legal external Banks to ensure timely document flow and delivery, and payment terms

• Monitor payments, maturities, and receivables, and ensure funds are received and applied

Governance and Strategic Initiatives

• Ensure treasury and trade finance activities comply with internal policies, delegated authorities, KYC, AML, sanctions, and applicable regulatory requirements

• Drive process improvement through standardization, automation, exploring AI solutions, to enable effective treasury and trade finance system enhancements across regional operations

• Support with strategic business initiatives including new systems project implementations

• Lead, coach, and develop team members within Finance and Operations and other teams in HK and across MKS group of companies

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in finance & treasury, trade finance, gained in multinationals, financial institutions, banking, commodity trading or precious-metals environment

• Demonstrated experience in treasury cash management, banking facilities, financial products, and trade finance transactions across multiple jurisdictions and counterparties

• Working knowledge of LCs, guarantees, documentary collections, and International Chamber of Commerce (‘ICC’) rules, including Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (‘UCP’) 600 regulations, Uniform Rules for Collections (‘CRC’) 522, and International Standard Banking Practices (‘SBP’), and ability to spot document discrepancies

• Understanding of KYC, AML, Sanctions, Counterparty Risk, related Controls in a cross-border environment

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Banking, Business, International Trade or a related field

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and modelling skills, with the ability to produce clear analysis and management reporting

• Fluent written and spoken English

Desirable

• Experience in precious metals, refining, bullion, or commodity trading and familiarity with physical trade flows

• Professional qualifications such as ACT, CFA, CPA, CDCS, CSDG, or an equivalent treasury, finance, or trade finance credential

• Experience with treasury management systems, ERP platforms, bank connectivity, and cash-management automation

• Oral proficiency in Cantonese

• Strong organization skills, stakeholder management, commercially minded and ability to manage multiple transactions under tight deadlines

• Sound judgment with strong attention to detail and a disciplined approach to execution

• Clear communication with banks, senior leadership, auditors, and cross-functional teams

• High integrity, awareness of compliance risk, with a can-do problem-solving mindset

• Applicants must be based in Hong Kong and hold valid authorization to work in Hong Kong