Compliance & Credit Risk Executive (0069 July 2026)

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Compliance & Credit Risk Specialist to join our client's team. This dual-focused role is critical in mitigating financial, regulatory, and credit risks within the dynamic and fast-paced marine fuel/bunkering sector. You will be responsible for ensuring strict regulatory compliance, conducting robust credit evaluations, managing counterparty exposure, and supporting basic trade finance operations to facilitate safe business growth.

• Regulatory Adherence: Ensure full compliance with all applicable local and international regulations, with a strong focus on AML/CFT, sanctions, and maritime trade regulations.
• Counterparty Due Diligence: Perform robust Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) checks for onboarding new clients and conducting periodic reviews of existing ones.
• Risk Categorization: Assess and classify counterparties into high, medium, and low-risk profiles based on defined compliance frameworks.
• Transaction Monitoring: Actively monitor transactions for suspicious activities, flag potential anomalies, and escalate compliance breaches or risks in a timely manner.
• Audit Support: Maintain meticulous documentation in alignment with regulatory standards; support both internal and external audits to ensure flawless record-keeping.
• Market Intelligence: Stay abreast of evolving regulatory changes and global sanctions impacting marine fuel operations.

• Credit Evaluation: Conduct comprehensive credit assessments for new and existing customers, including in-depth financial analysis and risk profiling.
• Limit & Terms Management: Review, recommend, and establish credit limits and payment terms while continuously monitoring counterparty exposure in highly volatile markets.
• Exposure Monitoring: Track customer credit exposure daily to ensure strict adherence to approved limits and proactively recommend mitigation measures to reduce risk.
• Reporting: Prepare daily credit risk reports and distribute them to the Trading Department prior to the start of trading hours.
• Breach Coordination: Coordinate across departments when credit limits are exceeded, and secure ad-hoc management approvals in accordance with credit policy when justified.

• Aging Analysis: Monitor accounts receivable, proactively highlighting overdue accounts, payment delays, or potential default risks.
• Dispute & Collection Resolution: Partner with internal cross-functional teams and external parties to resolve outstanding payment issues and collection disputes.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate closely with the Accounts and Trading teams to balance effective risk management with business enablement.

• Trade Finance Support: Facilitate basic trade finance operations, including the issuance of Letters of Credit (LCs) and managing settlements/payments under LCs.
• Ad-Hoc Duties: Perform other related duties and special projects as assigned by management to support business agility.

• Diploma/Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Maritime Studies, or related field.
• 3–5 years of direct credit risk experience and compliance, or trade finance.
• Strong financial analysis skills, including interpretation of financial statements, leverage metrics, and liquidity assessment.
• Experience assessing counterparty risk across traders, producers, processors etc.
• Strong communication skills to explain credit decisions clearly to traders, management and stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced trading environment.
• Pragmatic and solutions-oriented mindset, balancing risk control with commercial objectives
• Integrity, attention to detail, and accountability.
• With A Trade Finance background will have an added advantage.
• Experience in bunkering, shipping, oil trading, or commodity trading is an advantage.

Chan Chee Meng

EA 07C3069

R1110620