United Kingdom · Finance roles · Director/VP (16-20 years)

Director, Trade & Treasury Operations

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Experience bandDirector/VP (16-20 years)
Direct reports5-8 reports
Reports toVP, Global Treasury
UK framework levelUsually a director, accountable for a division and its numbers

Also advertised as Head of Global Trade Finance · VP, International Treasury & Trade · Director of Working Capital Solutions

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about processing transactions; it's about shaping how our money moves globally. You'll be the one making sure we're not only compliant but also optimising our working capital and navigating the messy world of international finance. Honestly, it's a big job with real impact on the bottom line.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Trade Finance Platforms (e.g., Finastra Fusion Trade Innovation, Surecomp, China Systems)Strategic

Leading vendor selection, managing system integration with ERPs, and defining the strategic roadmap for trade finance technology. You'll ensure the platforms meet our evolving business and compliance needs.

ERP Systems (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Oracle NetSuite)Architect

Working with IT to architect ERP solutions for new trade finance products (e.g., Supply Chain Finance modules). Approving system-level changes and controls, ensuring seamless financial reporting and data integrity.

Compliance & Screening Tools (e.g., Refinitiv World-Check One, LexisNexis Risk Solutions)Strategic

Setting the firm's risk appetite for sanctions and AML. Managing the relationship with compliance tech vendors and overseeing the validation of screening models. You're ensuring our screening is robust and effective.

Analytics & Reporting (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, advanced Excel)Strategic

Defining the key metrics for the entire trade finance function. Presenting insights from dashboards to senior leadership (CFO, Treasurer) to influence credit facility negotiations and strategic decisions.

Document Management Systems (e.g., SharePoint, OpenText, blockchain solutions)Strategic

Developing the enterprise-wide policy for trade document retention and security. Evaluating new technologies like blockchain for document digitisation and ensuring audit readiness and data integrity.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Strategic Direction of Trade Finance	N/A	N/A	Define and propose to VP, Global Treasury. Full authority once approved.
Bank Relationship Management & Negotiation	N/A	N/A	Lead negotiations for core banking relationships and credit facilities (up to £50M+). Full authority on day-to-day engagement.
Budget Allocation (Trade Finance)	N/A	N/A	Full authority for trade finance operational budget up to £5M. Capital expenditure on new platforms over £1M requires CFO approval.
Team Hiring & Performance Management	N/A	N/A	Full authority for hiring, performance reviews, and compensation adjustments for your direct reports. Consult HR for complex cases.
New Trade Finance Product/Platform Adoption	N/A	N/A	Define requirements, lead vendor selection, and approve implementation plans. Significant capital investment requires CFO/Board approval.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Working Capital Optimisation

The amount of cash freed up or avoided by optimising trade finance structures and payment terms.

Target · Improve working capital by £10M-£20M annually through new initiatives (e.g., Supply Chain Finance, better payment terms).

Implementing a new receivables financing programme that reduces DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) by 5 days, freeing up £12M in cash.

Cost of Trade Finance

Total bank fees and interest expenses related to trade finance instruments and facilities, as a percentage of trade volume.

Target · Reduce total trade finance costs by 10-15% year-on-year through negotiation and structural changes.

Renegotiating LC confirmation fees with our top 3 banks, resulting in a £300K annual saving on a £200M trade volume.

Compliance & Risk Incident Rate

Number of material compliance breaches (e.g., sanctions violations, AML flags) or operational losses due to trade finance errors.

Target · Zero material compliance breaches; maintain operational loss rate below 0.01% of trade volume.

Successfully navigating a complex sanctions screening scenario without any delays or violations, despite heightened geopolitical risk.

Team Productivity & Efficiency

Overall throughput of the trade finance team, measured by transactions processed per FTE and average processing time.

Target · Increase transactions processed per FTE by 15% through process automation and training; reduce average complex transaction processing time by 20%.

Rolling out a new AI-powered document checker that allows the team to process 20% more LCs with the same headcount, freeing up time for higher-value activities.

Strategic Bank Relationship Management

How effectively you manage and deepen our relationships with key banking partners to secure favourable terms, access new products, and ensure strong support.

Banks proactively offer new financing solutions
we're getting 'best-in-market' pricing for our trade facilities
our banking partners see us as a key client and are responsive to our needs. You're the one they call first for new product pilots.

Cross-Functional Influence & Collaboration

Your ability to get different departments—like Sales, Legal, and Supply Chain—to agree on trade finance strategies and processes, even when their priorities might clash.

You're regularly invited to strategic planning meetings outside of Finance
other departments seek your counsel on international deal structures
there's a noticeable reduction in 'us vs. them' mentality when it comes to trade finance issues. People actually listen to your advice, even if it's not what they want to hear.

Talent Development & Succession Planning

How well you build, mentor, and retain a high-performing trade finance team, ensuring we have the right skills and leadership for the future.

High retention rate within your team
clear career paths for your direct reports
at least one senior team member identified and actively being developed for your succession. You're known for growing people.

Regulatory Foresight & Adaptation

Your ability to anticipate upcoming regulatory changes in international trade and proactively adapt our policies and systems to stay ahead of the curve.

We're never caught off guard by new sanctions or trade rules
our internal policies are updated well in advance of enforcement dates
you're seen as the go-to expert for interpreting complex regulatory shifts.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Strategic Impact & Ownership

You'll thrive on defining the direction of our global trade finance function, knowing your decisions directly influence our working capital and international growth. This isn't about executing someone else's plan; it's about creating your own.

Leading the selection and implementation of a new global trade finance platform that transforms how we manage LCs and guarantees, delivering millions in efficiency savings.

Solving Complex, High-Stakes Problems

The constant stream of intricate challenges – from navigating new sanctions to structuring complex commodity deals – will energise you. You'll love the intellectual puzzle of finding compliant, commercially viable solutions to really tough problems.

Designing a bespoke pre-export finance facility for a new market entry, balancing local regulatory hurdles with our risk appetite and the supplier's needs.

Building & Developing High-Performing Teams

You'll get a real kick out of mentoring and growing your team, seeing them develop into experts, and knowing you've built a robust, capable function. Your legacy will be the talent you've nurtured.

Implementing a new training programme for your team on advanced structured trade finance techniques, leading to a noticeable uplift in their capabilities and confidence.

What frustrates people

Getting caught in the middle of sales pushing for risky payment terms and legal pushing for absolute zero risk.
Dealing with legacy systems that don't talk to each other, forcing manual workarounds for critical data.
The sheer unpredictability of global events (geopolitical, economic) that can derail carefully laid plans overnight.
The slow pace of change or adoption of new technologies in some banking partners, despite your best efforts.
Explaining the nuances of trade finance compliance to senior executives who just want to 'get the deal done'.

What this role does not give you

A purely technical, heads-down analytical role without significant people management or strategic influence.
A predictable 9-to-5 schedule; urgent issues in different time zones will sometimes demand your attention outside of core hours.
Complete autonomy without accountability; you'll have significant authority, but also significant responsibility for outcomes.
A role where you can avoid difficult conversations; challenging stakeholders is a core part of the job.

6Who you work with

This role directly impacts our global liquidity, working capital efficiency, and our ability to conduct international trade securely and profitably. Your decisions can free up tens of millions in cash, reduce our cost of capital, and significantly mitigate our exposure to financial and operational risks across multiple jurisdictions. You're essentially the guardian of our international cash flow and trade reputation.

Inside the business

CFO and Finance Leadership Team
Global Sales & Commercial Directors
Head of Procurement and Supply Chain
Legal & Compliance Department
IT & Digital Transformation Leads

Outside the business

Core Relationship Banks (Global Heads of Trade Finance)
External Auditors & Regulatory Bodies
Trade Finance Platform Vendors
Industry Associations (e.g., ICC, BAFT)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

Proven experience (16+ years) in a senior leadership role within international trade finance or treasury operations, ideally with P&L responsibility.
Demonstrable track record of successfully leading and developing large, geographically dispersed teams.
Extensive experience in negotiating complex credit facilities and managing strategic banking relationships.
Deep, practical expertise in structured trade finance, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
Experience in driving significant process improvement and technology adoption within a finance function.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced AI & Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics

AI and ML are moving beyond basic automation to predictive capabilities. We'll use them to forecast trade flows, anticipate compliance risks, and optimise working capital in ways that manual analysis simply can't achieve. You'll need to understand how to leverage these for strategic advantage.

Predictive Modelling for Trade Volumes · AI for Anomaly Detection in Compliance · Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Contract Intelligence · Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Optimisation

This quarter: Engage with our Data Science or IT teams to understand their current AI capabilities and projects.
Next 6 months: Identify one specific trade finance challenge where AI could offer significant predictive power and scope out a pilot.
Next 12 months: Oversee the development and deployment of a predictive model for a critical trade finance metric.
Ongoing: Stay informed about industry best practices and vendor solutions in AI for finance.

Quick win: Ask your team to explore how ChatGPT or similar LLMs could summarise complex regulatory updates or draft initial responses to bank queries. It's a quick way to see the power of AI.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attend industry conferences and seminars on international trade, treasury, and financial technology (e.g., Sibos, EuroFinance, ICC Banking Commission meetings).
Participate in relevant professional associations (e.g., ACT, BAFT) to network and stay abreast of industry trends and best practices.
Engage in continuous learning on emerging technologies like blockchain, AI, and digital trade platforms.
Seek out leadership development programmes to further hone your strategic thinking, influence, and people management skills.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Digital Trade Ecosystem & Blockchain Literacy

The push for fully digital, paperless trade is accelerating. New platforms using blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are emerging to streamline document exchange, reduce fraud, and speed up transactions. If we don't understand and engage with these, we'll be left behind.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Digital Trade Ecosystem & Blockchain Literacy

The push for fully digital, paperless trade is accelerating. New platforms using blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are emerging to streamline document exchange, reduce fraud, and speed up transactions. If we don't understand and engage with these, we'll be left behind.

Electronic Bills of Lading (eBLs)
Trade Finance on DLT Networks
Smart Contracts for Trade
Interoperability Standards

ESG & Sustainable Trade Finance Integration

Investors, regulators, and customers are increasingly demanding transparency and accountability for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in supply chains. Trade finance will play a critical role in incentivising and verifying sustainable practices, and we need to be ready to integrate this into our strategy.

Green Trade Finance Products
ESG Due Diligence in Supply Chains
Impact Measurement & Reporting
Regulatory Frameworks for Sustainable Finance

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

UCP 600 / ISBP 745 Mastery
Structured & Commodity Trade Finance Design
Counterparty & Sovereign Risk Management
FX & Hedging Strategy
Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) & Sanctions Regimes

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Senior Trade Finance Manager (L5) from a Large Corporate
3-5 years at L5
Skills to master
- Deepen strategic planning and P&L management, expand bank relationship management beyond transactional, and lead significant cross-functional projects. You'll need to prove you can think beyond your immediate team.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully managed a team of 10+ trade finance professionals.
- Led the negotiation of a major credit facility or implemented a new trade finance product.
- Presented strategic recommendations to C-suite level executives and influenced key decisions.
- Demonstrated ownership of a significant budget or P&L within your previous role.
2
Head of Trade Finance from a Mid-Sized Company
4-6 years in Head role
Skills to master
- Scale your strategic thinking to a larger, more complex global organisation. Adapt to more sophisticated governance structures and manage a broader range of banking relationships. You'll need to show you can operate at a higher level of complexity.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully built and scaled a trade finance function in a growing company.
- Managed all aspects of trade finance for a company with significant international revenue.
- Proven ability to manage both operational and strategic aspects of trade finance.
- Strong network within the banking community and experience with diverse trade finance instruments.
3
Senior Treasury Manager with Trade Finance Specialisation
5-7 years in senior treasury roles
Skills to master
- Deepen specific trade finance technical expertise (UCP 600, structured finance), enhance compliance management, and build out a dedicated trade finance team. You'll need to transition from broad treasury to a trade finance specialism.
You're ready to move on when
- Managed significant cash management, FX, and working capital initiatives.
- Demonstrated strong understanding of international payments and financial risk management.
- Led projects involving trade finance components or integrated trade finance into broader treasury strategy.
- Proven leadership capabilities and ability to build new functional areas.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This Director role is a launchpad. It's where you solidify your strategic leadership, deepen your expertise, and build the track record that can take you to the very top of global finance. We're looking for someone with the ambition and capability to not just manage, but to truly transform our international trade finance landscape.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Director, Trade & Treasury Operations is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in logistics operationsLevel 5

Applied to your work in Director, Trade & Treasury Operations

This unit aims to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical, and social requirements within logistics operations.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

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One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Director, Trade & Treasury Operations

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Working Capital OptimisationThe amount of cash freed up or avoided by optimising trade finance structures and payment terms.Implementing a new receivables financing programme that reduces DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) by 5 days, freeing up £12M in cash.Improve working capital by £10M-£20M annually through new initiatives (e.g., Supply Chain Finance, better payment terms).
Cost of Trade FinanceTotal bank fees and interest expenses related to trade finance instruments and facilities, as a percentage of trade volume.Renegotiating LC confirmation fees with our top 3 banks, resulting in a £300K annual saving on a £200M trade volume.Reduce total trade finance costs by 10-15% year-on-year through negotiation and structural changes.
Compliance & Risk Incident RateNumber of material compliance breaches (e.g., sanctions violations, AML flags) or operational losses due to trade finance errors.Successfully navigating a complex sanctions screening scenario without any delays or violations, despite heightened geopolitical risk.Zero material compliance breaches; maintain operational loss rate below 0.01% of trade volume.
Team Productivity & EfficiencyOverall throughput of the trade finance team, measured by transactions processed per FTE and average processing time.Rolling out a new AI-powered document checker that allows the team to process 20% more LCs with the same headcount, freeing up time for higher-value activities.Increase transactions processed per FTE by 15% through process automation and training; reduce average complex transaction processing time by 20%.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Director, Trade & Treasury Operations to VP, Global Treasury (L7), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 7 · in progressAI Fluency→ VP, Global Treasury (L7)→ your design

Where this takes you

This Director role is a launchpad. It's where you solidify your strategic leadership, deepen your expertise, and build the track record that can take you to the very top of global finance. We're looking for someone with the ambition and capability to not just manage, but to truly transform our international trade finance landscape.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Director, Trade & Treasury Operations

UCP 600 / ISBP 745 Mastery
Structured & Commodity Trade Finance Design
Counterparty & Sovereign Risk Management
FX & Hedging Strategy
Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) & Sanctions Regimes

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Director, Trade & Treasury Operations is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

VP, Global Treasury (L7)
3-5 years in Director role
One level up
- Advanced debt capital markets and corporate finance expertise.
- Global investment portfolio management.
- Enterprise risk management framework development and oversight.
- Optimising global banking architecture and infrastructure.
Director, Global Supply Chain Finance (L6, Lateral/Expanded Scope)
2-4 years in current Director role
Same level, broader specialisation
- Designing and implementing advanced supply chain finance programmes (e.g., dynamic discounting, inventory finance).
- Integrating financial solutions with physical supply chain flows and data.
- Managing relationships with non-bank finance providers and fintechs in the supply chain space.
- Optimising cash conversion cycles across the entire supply chain.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, as a Director, your time is precious. You shouldn't be bogged down in manual tasks or sifting through endless reports. AI isn't here to replace your strategic brain; it's here to free it up. Imagine having more time to focus on high-level negotiations, market analysis, and developing your team, rather than chasing data or drafting routine communications.

For a Director in Trade & Treasury Operations, AI isn't just about efficiency at the individual level; it's about driving strategic advantage across the entire function. You'll be looking at how AI can transform our operations, enhance risk management, and give us an edge in a competitive global market. It's about smart adoption and strategic oversight.

AI-Powered Market & Risk Intelligence

Use advanced AI platforms to aggregate and analyse global economic data, geopolitical events, and regulatory updates in real-time. Get synthesised reports on emerging trade risks, currency volatility, and new market opportunities, allowing you to make proactive strategic decisions faster than ever before.

Automated Negotiation & Contract Analysis

Leverage AI to analyse historical bank fee structures and credit facility agreements, identifying optimal negotiation points and potential savings. Use NLP to quickly review complex legal clauses in trade contracts, flagging risks or non-standard terms before they become an issue. This means you're always prepared.

Strategic Performance Dashboards & Forecasting

Implement AI-driven analytics to build predictive models for working capital, cash flow, and trade finance utilisation. Get dynamic dashboards that highlight key trends, anomalies, and potential future bottlenecks, enabling you to allocate resources and adjust strategy with far greater precision.

Intelligent Process Automation Oversight

Oversee the deployment of AI and RPA solutions across your team for routine tasks like document checking, compliance screening, and report generation. Your role shifts to validating the AI's output, fine-tuning its parameters, and ensuring its strategic alignment, rather than managing the manual work.

Common questions

How do you become a Director, Trade & Treasury Operations?

Common routes in include Senior Trade Finance Manager (L5) from a Large Corporate (3-5 years at L5), Head of Trade Finance from a Mid-Sized Company (4-6 years in Head role) and Senior Treasury Manager with Trade Finance Specialisation (5-7 years in senior treasury roles). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Director, Trade & Treasury Operations progress to?

This role can lead on to VP, Global Treasury (L7) (3-5 years in Director role) and Director, Global Supply Chain Finance (L6, Lateral/Expanded Scope) (2-4 years in current Director role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Director, Trade & Treasury Operations in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 7 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Director, Trade & Treasury Operations?

Increasingly, Digital Trade Ecosystem & Blockchain Literacy and ESG & Sustainable Trade Finance Integration. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows Director, Trade & Treasury Operations, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

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Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Director, Trade & Treasury Operations: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 7

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Finance roles

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

Your expertise in international trade finance, risk management, and global operations is highly transferable. You could move into senior finance or operations roles in other multinational corporations, financial institutions, or even into consulting firms specialising in treasury or supply chain finance. The skills you build here are globally relevant.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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Director, Trade & Treasury Operations

What's rising in its place

Digital Trade Ecosystem & Blockchain Literacy

ESG & Sustainable Trade Finance Integration

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Senior Trade Finance Manager (L5) from a Large Corporate

Head of Trade Finance from a Mid-Sized Company

Senior Treasury Manager with Trade Finance Specialisation

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

VP, Global Treasury (L7)

Director, Global Supply Chain Finance (L6, Lateral/Expanded Scope)

Where AI is starting to help

AI-Powered Market & Risk Intelligence

Automated Negotiation & Contract Analysis

Strategic Performance Dashboards & Forecasting

Intelligent Process Automation Oversight

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.