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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Banking Operations and Trade Finance

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Banking Operations and Trade Finance resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • banking operations
  • back office
  • trade finance
  • letter of credit
  • bank guarantee
  • swift
  • remittance
  • inward remittance
  • outward remittance
  • fema
  • clearing
  • cheque
  • neft
  • rtgs
  • account maintenance
  • kyc
  • reconciliation
  • settlement
  • nostro
  • custody
  • ucp 600
  • documentary collection
  • operational risk
  • tat
  • sla
  • core banking
  • finacle
  • flexcube

The eight questions for Banking Operations and Trade Finance

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many transactions, documents or cases do you process in a day or a month?
  2. 2.What is the value of transactions or documents you handle?
  3. 3.What is your accuracy, error rate or first time right rate?
  4. 4.Which products do you operate, such as trade finance, remittances, clearing or account services?
  5. 5.What is your turnaround time or SLA, and how consistently is it met?
  6. 6.Which systems and platforms do you work in?
  7. 7.How many audits, reconciliations or regulatory reports do you own?
  8. 8.What process have you improved, and what did it save in time, cost or errors?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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