About Olea
Olea is a digital infrastructure platform that connects global liquidity with trade and supply chain opportunities, fueling growth and unlocking potential worldwide. Olea has diverse liquidity pools with varying appetite and focuses. Olea’s vision is to connect capital to opportunity. It has a robust conviction in the role of trade to support sustainable economic development across countries, particularly emerging markets, particularly Asia where many smaller suppliers are based. Olea supports suppliers and buyers in over 70 corridors.

Role summary
We are seeking an agile, highly disciplined Associate Director, Trade Operations to lead core operational delivery while driving digital transformation across our trade finance platforms.
In this dual-impact role, you will lead day-to-day trade processing and vendor delivery, ensuring zero-defect execution across complex trade products (including Factoring and Structured Trade). Concurrently, you will serve as an operational subject matter expert, bridging Operations, Commercial teams, Risk, Compliance, and Technology,



translating operational friction into scalable automated systems, API / SFTP integrations, and streamlined digital workflows.
Responsibilities

Operational Leadership, Execution & Control
Lead, mentor, and build capacity for the trade operations team, managing shift schedules, workload queues, and performance KPI’s.
Oversee transaction monitoring, document review, trade account reconciliations, and commission settlements with a strict zero-tolerance approach to errors.
Serve as the Senior Middle Office escalation point for high-value corporate portfolios, ensuring compliance with internal risk policies, KYC, and regulatory standards.
Oversee offshore / outsourced operational vendor teams (e.g. India delivery centers), ensuring strict adherence to SLA’s, quality standards, and reporting requirements.
Digital Transformation & Process Engineering
Act as an operational SME and Business / User Repres

📌 Associate Director, Trade Operations (India)
🏢 Olea
📍 India