Trade Finance Specialist — Commodity Offtake Deals

Requirement

An international commodity trading firm is structuring letter-of-credit-backed offtake agreements across West and East Africa and needs a trade finance specialist who can make those structures work in practice rather than on paper. The technical requirements are specific. Incoterms determine where risk and cost transfer, and offtake agreements drafted with the wrong term routinely leave one party carrying exposure it never priced. Correspondent banking is the binding constraint on African trade finance — confirming bank appetite for issuing bank risk is frequently the reason a deal does not close, and the specialist needs existing relationships and a realistic view of which African issuing banks will actually get confirmed. Forex repatriation regulation in Nigeria and Kenya determines whether export proceeds can be converted and moved on the timeline the structure assumes; getting this wrong strands cash. The role covers structuring, documentation, bank negotiation and post-shipment management across live commodity flows. Compensation is $8,000-$15,000 monthly depending on deal book size. The requirement is high urgency against committed offtake volumes.