Head of Trade Finance
Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)
Responsible for leading the development, structuring, and execution of trade finance and guarantee solutions to support DBSA’s development mandate. This role ensures the origination and execution of innovative flow and structured trade financing structures, manages associated risks, and contributes to optimising DBSA’s financial resource deployment. The role actively engages with internal and external stakeholders to drive strategic trade finance transactions aligned with DBSA’s business objectives. The role entails the development, refinement and execution of the DBSA’s end-to-end Trade Finance strategy, including flow trade and structured trade product development, market development, client identification (across different commodities) and operational risk management design and implementation for the trade business.