Arlene Gonzalez

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Bronx, New York 10473

Home – 718-***-****

Cell – 646-***-****

acw4cg@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

More than 30+ years of experience combined in Trade Finance Management and Operations, Freight Forwarding, Logistics and Staff management.

EXPERIENCE

BANK LEUMI USA - July 1981 to November 2015

Assistant Vice President -Manager of Trade Finance Payment department

Notary Public Certified - (NYS)

Expertise in UCP 600 (Uniform Customs Practice)

-Issuance of Import and Export Letters of Credit

-Issuance Amendments for Import and Export Letters of Credit

-Transfer of Import and Export Letters of Credit (Full and Partial Transfers)

-Bank to bank reimbursements – Issuance, amendments and payment

-Bankers Acceptance – refinancing, rollover and payment.

Responsibilities:

-Manage a team of eight (8)

-Debit customer accounts for acceptances maturing daily.

-Create bankers acceptances upon request, rollover maturing items upon request for customers.

-Approve/release Bank to Bank reimbursements due for payment.

-Approve/release payments under Letters of Credit.

-Cancel expired letters of credit and debiting customers account for any outstanding commission

-Distribute and keep log of all incoming swift messages for Dept.

-Create Profiles for all new customers on Trade Finance System back office and (Internet base)

-Provide training/Help Line services for customers sending applications via Internet Base

-Maintain all General Ledger accounts for Trade Finance Department and reporting to accounting on a monthly and quarterly basis.

-Maintain Suspense Accounts/Accounts Receivable – distributing all incoming and outgoing funds to proper cost centers.

-Create and manage Quarterly Reporting for Federal Insurance Deposit – providing samples of specific dates given by the insurance company.

-Provide and manage Statistics Report process - comparing month to month and year to date commission.

-Maintain and update Trade Finance System with credit committee minutes on customers account.

-Maintain Trade Finance System revised fees

-Issue all counter guarantees to airlines (release goods to customers before documents arrive at the Bank.

-Oversee and coordinate CYBAR system implementation to include User acceptance testing and training.

-Certified in OFAC, AML, SAR

-Knowledge of all MT swift format (700, 701, 707, 710, 720, 730, 740, 747, 742 )

MANUFACTURER & TRADER BANK (M&T) – 1978 to 1980

Supervisor for Telex Department

Responsibilities:

-Distribute incoming and outgoing swift and telex messages to various Dept.

-Perform Backup to bank ‘CHIP’ system (Clearing House Interchange Payment)

EDUCATION

Leumi Extended University (NYC) 2010 - 2015. Certification in Fraud Management, Office of Foreign asset Control, Anti-Money Laundering, People Management and Trade Finance Management.

Sacred Heart of Mary High School (NYC) 1974 – 1978

Major: Business Education; Graduated with honors

Winner of Sacred Heart of Mary Business Education Medal Award

COMPUTER SKILLS

Type 90 wpm

MS Excel

Word Perfect

MS Outlook

Cibar System – GTS (Global Trade System)

Cibar System – Customer internet connection

LANGUAGES

Fluent in Spanish

REFERENCES

Available upon request

REFERENCES FOR ARLENE GONZALEZ

Robert Reich – Bank Leumi USA – Vice President

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Renzo Savo – Bank Leumi USA – Assistance Treasurer

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Additional reference

Notary Public

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