- Periodically review the equipment finance needs within the area of responsibility and make recommendations to Senior Manager Equipment Financing Solutions taking into account Commercial, Tax and Legal requirements.
- Regularly interact with Finance Directors and Commercial Directors (FD and CD) in the markets to identify equipment financing needs and advise on most appropriate solutions.
- Ensure regular interaction with representatives of banks, Export Credit Agencies and external financing partners to maintain relationship and ensure that new solutions or countries are added to the offering.
- Regularly interact with FD and CD in the markets to identify credit risk exposures, advise on most appropriate solutions and monitor resolution.
- Contribute to the improvement of the credit risk monitoring process and tools.

Ongoing responsibilities
- Review with markets all equipment financing deals before they are submitted to customers to ensure compliance with Tetra Laval Group policies and adequacy of the structure and interest rate applied.
- Coordinate with banks, external financing partners, Export Credit Agencies and other counterparties to design and implement equipment financing transactions in the relevant markets.
- Perform monthly follow-up of credit risk exposures in the markets under responsibility and recommend actions for cases with increased risks.
- Contribute to the yearly update of relevant policies/procedures (in the area of equipment finance and credit risk) to ensure that they remain in term of product offering, geographical coverage and evolution of risks.
- Escalate any exception to Tetra Laval Group policies and procedures and ensure that they are approved according to the applicable escalation process.
- Being accountable to improve procedures, methods, techniques, services or products.

Project Work
The Equipment Finance Specialist is responsible for implementation of Equipment Finance projects in the area of responsibility such as new equipment financing partners or solutions as well as enhancing the credit risk monitoring process and tools. He also has to directly contribute in achieving Tetra Laval Groups business goals and to work significantly to achieve the Tetra Laval Balanced Scorecard.

The role of this position is about obtaining and providing information, explaining facts, practices, policies through flexibility and comprise. Convince others to accept concepts, practices and approaches without authority to change or modify them and to solve the issues under the job area of responsibility.

The Equipment Finance Specialist also needs to come to agreement by managing short term operational, medium term tactical or limited strategic communications through discussions and compromise.

The Equipment Finance Specialist analyses and manages specific issues which generally fall within his/her job area or discipline, has to understand and consider other disciplines and issues which require broad-based solutions needing consideration of 2 or 3 dimensions, i.e. operational, tax, legal, financial and human, outside his/her area and organisation.

It is expected that the Specialist will dialogue with senior finance and commercial counterparts in the IG (Central and Market company, finance and commercial staff) across the full range of Equipment Finance matters.
The Equipment Finance Specialist will be actively involved in strategic initiatives leveraging data science across descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to generate actionable insights, support decision-making and drive business impact in a constantly changing environment.