Trade Finance and Insurance Manager

Address: via Cattori *a

**** ******, ***********

Tel: 091.994.90.67

Mobile: 076.565.83.44

Email: *************@*******.***

D.O.B: 23.06.1975

Nationality: Swiss

Marital Status: Marriage

Career Objective

Conscientious, flexible and currently seeking of challenging assignment and responsibility, with an opportunity for growth and career advancement as successful achievements Key Competencies

Leadership abilities Decision Maker

Result oriented Negotiating skills

Creative, insightful and innovative Coordination

Professional Experience

Commodity General Trading Intl SA, Lugano

(2015 – present)

Responsible for Trade Finance and Insurance

Achievements and responsibilities:

• following up credit facility lines and conditions with banks;

• following up global policy with insurance companies;

• negotiating of future credit facility and conditions with banks;

• negotiating of global policy conditions with insurance companies;

• providing and interpreting financial information and financial statements to banks and insurances;

• controlling utilization of existing credit facility line for each bank;

• presentation of transaction proposal to the banks;

• negotiation of conditions for each deal (cash margin, pricing rate, discounting, instruments of payments, advise issuing bank of export l/c, advise negotiation documentation for back to back deals);

• negotiation and preparing documentation for forfaiting/discounting of export letter of credit;

• providing financial advice and support to Trade Department to make adequate business decisions;

• preparation of the budget report summarizing expected profitability of the single orders;

• monitoring and interpreting cash flows and predicting future trends;

• following up of incoming invoices and payment;

• follow up of outstanding invoices of clients and make official clam declaration;

• making credit limit requests and declaration sales turnover to insurance company;

• making marine/vessels declaration to insurance company;

• preparing report to CEO.

Commodity General Trading Intl SA, Lugano

(2014 – 2015)

Head of Administration Steel Division

Achievements and responsibilities:

• organization and operate working with 5 employees in Department;

• controlling and implementation of contracts (sales and purchase contracts);

• presentation of requested documentation to banks (contracts, insurance credit limit decisions, instructions of issuing import letter of credits, marine insurance certificate, and other requested documents);

• making needed documents for import of material to the final destinations;

• controlling cashable of an export letter of credit and advising client to issue amendment of letter of credits;

• preparing and controlling negotiable documents in an export letter of credit (Invoice, Bill of Lading, CMR, Certificate of Origin, Packing list, Mill’s Test certificates, Beneficiary Certificates and others);

• presentation of documentation to an insurance companies for pre-financing contracts with mills;

• preparing avalized draft /bill of exchange;

• follow-up the production status of mill;

• follow-up transportation of the materials to the final destination in coordination with Logistic and Shipping Department;

• preparing shipping instructions for Logistic and Shipping Department;

• preparing shipping advise for client.

National Bank of Serbia - The Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins, Belgrade, Serbia

(2008 – 2013)

Head of Export Sales Department

Achievements and responsibilities:

• organization and operate working with 10 employees in Department;

• responsible for selling strategic products (banknotes, coins, e-passports, ID cards and other security products) in foreign markets;

• defining sales strategy of the company performance in foreign markets;

• consistently developed strong customer loyalty and sustainable relationships with clients;

• elaboration of international agreements (contracts to sell products and services, nondisclosure agreement (NDA), and contracts of cooperation with international partners);

• preparing of a Bid with all conditions (method of payment, shipment of products and goods

(delivery terms), and delivery time);

• control documents for the export of goods cleared, and control of documents for temporary importation of necessary raw materials;

• monitoring of Customs regulations and International Commercial Terms;

• monitoring of bank guarantee payment (L/C) for contracted projects;

• preparing documentation for the company's participation in international tenders.

• monitoring results of international tenders;

• preparing reports to Board Management.

Siemens VDO, Neuhaussen / Switzerland

March-May 2007

Consultancy experience in field project for the conclusion of the Master of Science in Economics and Communication, University of Lugano, Switzerland National Bank of Serbia - The Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins, Belgrade, Serbia

(2001 – 2005)

Head of Sales Department on Domestic Market

• organization and operate working with 25 employees in Department;

• looking for a new clients and developing strong relationships with existing clients;

• cooperated with production departments on planning and implementation of sales strategies;

• making sales programs and plans in building and maintaining a strong market presence;

• analyzing structure of sales prices and define terms of payment;

• making sales presentations of existing and new products on domestic markets;

• preparing reports to Board of Management;

Deus system, export-import company for graphical raw materials, Belgrade, Serbia Salesperson

• daily selling of products;

• creating an Invoices and monitoring of payment of Invoices;

• building new relationship with customers and improving sales of new products;

• technical support to clients;

• make the presentation for the new products (offset inks, plates and graphics chemicals);

• training in "Royal Dutch Printing Ink Factory- VanSon, Hilversum, Holland (2000); and in company "Ipagsa", Barcelona, Spain (2001).

Education

University of Lugano (USI), Lugano, Switzerland

(2005-2007)

Master of Science in Economics and Communication

University of Belgrade - Faculty of Economy, Serbia,

(1994-1999)

Bachelor in Economics

XIX gymnasium of natural science, Belgrade, Serbia

(1991-1994)

Languages

English Fluent

Italian Very Good

Russian Good

Serbo-Croatian: Mother tongue

IT Skills

Microsoft Office (including Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint) Photoshop

SPSS

SAP

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