Drita Nokaj-Cicani
Vice President Global Trade Finance and Client Banking @Crédit Agricole CIB
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President Global Trade Finance and Client Banking @Crédit Agricole CIB
NY, US
Checking and approving Trade Service Transactions including Standby Letters of Credit Issuance, Advising, Confirmation, Amendments, Cancellations, Evergreen Renewals, Transfers, Drawing, Documentary LC, Presentation and Discounting and all Syndicated Loan LC’s.• Liaised with Credit Department, Trade Sales, Relationship Managers, Participation and Syndication, Client Services, and other teams to ensure transactions are completed within SLAs while adhering to bank’s policies and controls.• Review, evaluate and approve billing transactions and ensure timely payment are received.• Monitoring maturity report, past due report, evergreen report, compliance report, agent bank reports are handled in timely manner by team members.• Check the draft language for issuance of Letter of Credit.• Participated in TI+ project transition from ACBS system.• Monitoring all mailboxes and handling daily COSMOS report.• Participating in meeting handled by Front Office Department with clients representing Trade Operation Products and procedure.• Participated in setting up a new team of Guarantee Documentary Dept. in Montreal last year and went for training new team there.• Checking and approving outgoing loan related payments for FED/CHIP/Swift payments.• Working closely the team in NY and Montreal on daily tasks are handled in timely manner and assisting any inquires/crossing training they need for work to be done.• Investigating, reconciling and resolving outstanding items in Cash Account, Past Due, Suspense and Break-Funding charges and processing an ADI for clearing those breaks.• Approving all facilities set up for clients by team members.• Working on Adhoc inquires that are received from business lines, clients, agent bank, accounting and compliance department.• Maintained industry knowledge of trade products including International Chamber of Commerce’s trade rules (UCP 600, URDG and ISP98, and bank’s policies, procedures & guidelines.
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor Science, Business Development and Management
Hult International Business School
MIB, Master International Business
Hult International Business School
Master of International Busniess
ABOUT DRITA NOKAJ-CICANI
Experienced Trade Finance with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Business Planning, Analytical Skills, Sales Management, Market Analysis, and Event Management. Strong finance professional with a MIB focused in Master International Business from Hult International Business School.
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