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Senior Financial Risk Analyst

Apply NowSave JobRemove JobJob ID 138422Date posted 08.03.2021Location : Mechelen, Belgium | Schiphol, Netherlands | Geneva, Switzerland | London, United Kingdom

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Financial Risk Analyst will lead the financial risk management in commodity positions, foreign exchange risks and trading profit and loss for the defined businesses and areas. In this role, you will partner with key stakeholders to develop and implement models for valuing trading portfolios and assessing related market risks, as well as key controls to ensure operational compliance and accuracy of data and reports. You will also lead the process standardization and optimization and develop new solutions to enhance automation and implement the transformation.

Key Accountabilities

• Partner with key stakeholders to manage complex commodity and foreign exchange position reporting and reconciliation and ensure any significant differences are resolved and communicated appropriately.


• Collaborate with business stakeholders to monitor commodity and foreign exchange exposure and ensure completeness of all the complex financial reporting within deadlines and compare against limits, escalate and resolve breaches of limits.


• Team up with key stakeholders to develop and implement models for trading portfolio valuation and market risk assessment.


• Validate reports and reconcile trading profit and loss by line of impact with key stakeholders.


• Ensure compliance of operations and monitor points of control.


• Develop and implement process simplification, enhance process standardization, optimize reporting and drive automation and transformation processes.


• Lead risk management best practices and improvement initiatives.


• Build the team's capability to ensure a high performing team.


• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.


• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience


• Minimum of four years of related work experience


• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in finance operations with deep knowledge of financial risk management, especially market risk, and related financial processes


• Experience with commodity market and trading activities


• Programming skills (Python, Excel VBA, SQL, Power query,…)


• Excellent communication skills


• CFA or FRM would be an advantage

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

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