Rehan Ali

• Staff Management, Appraisals and Training
• Hiring and Termination
• Management Reporting
• Standby Letters of Credit: Issuance, Amendments, Transferable Amendments, Auto-renewals, Advice of Expiry, Drawings, Cancellations and Billings
• Import and Export Letters of Credit: Issuance, Advice of New LC, Amendments, Sight and Term Drawings, Doc Examination, Acceptance, Negotiations and Payments, Transferable LC
• Import and Export Documentary Collections: Issuance, Acceptances, Amendments and Payments
• Airway bill and Shipping Guarantee release
• Confirmed Purchase Order (CPO) Financing, Small Business Administration (SBA) Lending
• Wire Transfers, Archiving, Filing and Mailing duties
• Manage testing of trade related system upgrades and patching including SWIFT, Core Banking and Trade Finance
• OFAC and AML Compliance duties .

• File AES for LCL, FCL, Consolidated and Direct Shipments Including Hazmat shipments, filing Japan 24 customs manifest and shipments under Letters of Credit
• Submitting Shipping Instructions and Amendments to Carriers via
• INTTRA/electronically and manually
• Checking and Approving Bills of Lading
• Processing work using AS400/LOGIS Ocean and MS Office
• Checking for documentation errors prior to filing AES
• Handling communication with internal customers, overseas offices and shipping lines etc.
• Rating Files and Settling Freight Invoices
• Generating House Bills and In house Invoices
• Assisting Overseas offices with Pre-Alert Documentation

• Customer Service
• Cash Handling
• Daily Banking & Reconciliation
• Purchases and Inventory Management
• Business Operation duties
• Accounts and book keeping
• Advertising, Sales & Marketing Management
• Employee Hiring, Training and Supervision

• Onesteel Recycling is a core unit of the Arrium Group of Companies, engaged in the export of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal throughout the world
• Reporting to the Manager, Export Department.
• Shipping duties including booking freight, organizing empty container releases, applying EDNs, applying for pre-shipment inspections
• Export documentation duties including preparing forwarding instructions and export documentation using Trident system, printing bills of lading, approving pre-shipment inspection certificates, dispatching documents to clients etc
• Processing Documents under Export LC, D/P, Advance Payment and Open Accounts
• Handling portfolio of specialized and high value customers
• Running debtors report and outstanding shipments report
• Handling customer complaints and resolutions Liaising with internal and external customers, logistics dept., shipping lines, yards, overseas offices and banks
• Relieving the Export Manager, when on leave
• Staff Training, Supervision and Appraisals
• Monitoring work flow and KPI's (key performance indicators)
• Work Allocation/Delegation and 2nd Review of task performed.

• Preparation of Export documentation under Letters of Credit and Documentary Collections utilizing in-house computer systems and MS Office
• Liaising with banks, shipping companies, packers/dumpers, Govt. organizations and overseas buyers/agents
• Booking vessels/freights, transmitting delivery orders & providing shipping instructions to dumpers/packers

Worked in different sections of the International Trade Department including Customer Service, Documentary Collections, Import Letters of Credit, Export Letters of Credit, Standby Letters of Credit and Investigations.

Held various roles in Retail Banking and International Trade over a period 5 years.

Marketing and Promotion of the company's trading business for it's Foodstuff, Fertilizer and General Products department (import – export related).