Senior Director, Trading Compliance

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries.

At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

CHS is a Fortune 100 company and a global originator, merchant and processor of agricultural and energy commodities. CHS’s Compliance & Integrity team is seeking a Global Trading Compliance and New Product Risk Senior Director to oversee, monitor and administer the compliance elements of CHS’s trading strategy and ensure collaboration, integration and alignment across front, middle and back offices to appropriately manage risk arising from both regulated and unregulated trading activities.

In this role, the Senior Director will lead the development, governance and administration of trading compliance and new product risk management activities across the CHS enterprise (including but not limited to derivatives, physical commodities, trade and structured finance, and credit compliance). This role is an essential component in risk control strategies and in delivering high quality and high impact advice and solutions consistent with the CHS Integrity Framework and Risk Appetite.

• Leading and developing a high-performing and engaged team across all Trading Compliance program areas for commodities, including new product and geographic expansion, surveilling of traders and activities and related areas such as Credit Compliance.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with key strategic stakeholders / leaders globally and serving as a critical business partner to ensure all trading activities and associated compliance and other key risks are identified, understood, and appropriately managed across the company for current and new products and markets
• Developing and setting strategic direction for development, maturity and maintenance of the trading compliance and new product risk programs (including IT strategy for compliance) while overseeing daily tactical and operational support including surveillance of trading activity and investigation protocols
• Consulting on and participating in corporate projects such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures as well as development of new or existing trading related system platforms to ensure trading compliance issues are identified and addressed
• Leveraging a thorough understanding of trading compliance laws, regulations, market practices, internal processes and procedures to manage, approve and make decisions about CHS’s trading compliance programs, their operation and effectiveness
• Overseeing the monitoring of relevant regulatory and market developments and internal trading activity, including developing and maturing appropriate governance, escalation and approval processes for new trading activities / structures and markets, as well as adherence to all relevant regulatory limits
• Interacting directly with government agencies (such as the CFTC), exchanges (such as the CME) and self–regulatory organizations (such as the NFA) and leading the response to regulatory inquiries, audits, examinations and investigations
• Presenting on Trading Compliance and New Product Risk issues and status to the Strategic Leadership Team and Board Risk Committee and CHS Board of Directors, serve on regulated entity risk committee and act as a compliance advisor to its Board of Managers
• Empowering CHS to compete with integrity and confidence in the highly complex and regulated global marketplace CHS encounters every day.

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, economics or business, or related area of study.
• 10+ years of leadership experience in commodity risk management in one or more of the following areas:
  Commodity trading
  Commodity execution
  Commodity risk management
  Trading compliance
• Thorough understanding of physical and financial agricultural and/or energy…