Risk Book Quantitative Trader

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with lifes essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Ag & Trading enterprise, where we connect producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe through origination, trading, processing, and distribution. We also offer a range of farmer services and risk management solutions.

Cargill is one of the largest agricultural trading company's, in which sits proprietary trading departments such as the World Trading Group. A centralized execution platform is being developed within the technology department, and we are looking for an individual to lead the implementation and the risk taking of a Central Risk/Liquidity Book leveraging that platform. The role will report into the systematic trading team (within the world Trading Group).

• Lead the CRB construction, managing risk and optimizing returns by collaborating with the team in charge of the centralized execution platform
• Collaborate to improve execution algorithms and reduce overall slippage
• Optimize execution of the flows coming from the whole supply chain (proprietary trading but also hedging) by netting or scheduling by risk taking intraday / overnight
• Build a market making tool within the book to offer proprietary traders and merchants/hedgers the ability to trade internally
• Build an independent high frequency systematic overlay program to run within the book using public and proprietary data

• 5-10 years of experience in CRB trading and research on futures and options
• Hands on programming experience in python, sql, c++, c#/java on tick and client flows data
• Successful track record of systematic market making at higher frequency
• Successful track record of systematic trading at higher frequency
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills, with a proven track record of driving change in a company

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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