Senior Financial Risk Analyst

About the job SENIOR FINANCIAL RISK ANALYST

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join the company's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

The Senior Financial Risk Analyst will lead the financial risk management in commodity, 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 the key controls to ensure operational compliance and accuracy of data and reports. You will lead the process standardization and optimization and develop new solutions to enhance automation and implement the transformation.

• 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, elevate, and resolve breaches of limits.
• 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.

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Minimum of four years of related work experience.

• Experience in finance operations with a knowledge of financial risk management and related financial processes.
• Experience with data analytics tools (Python, SQL, BI).
• Experience with SAP.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

Base Salary: USD $95,000 to $120,000
Full-time Benefits:
Full
Relocation Assistance Available:
Possible for ideal candidate
Commission Compensation:
No
Bonus Eligible:
No
Overtime Eligible:
No
Interview Travel Reimbursed:
No

• Experience:
  
  5+ to 7 years
• Seniority Level: Mid-Senior
• Management Experience
  
  Required:
  
  No
• Minimum Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree
• Willingness to Travel:
  Never

Trade Product Control (internal term equivalent to “Financial Risk Analyst”) sits within risk management alongside market and credit risk. The purpose is to enable trading and risk management activities and strengthen the risk culture within Cargill. TPC operates on a global basis—155 people in their domain supporting all enterprises. Grain, oil feeds, protein, energy, internal energy optimization. People who support the trading activities of those enterprises—fx, derivatives and compliance—initiatives and compliance space is what we’re looking for alongside Deb.

Foundation is related back to trading activities.

• Regulatory compliance – compliance and operational understanding of derivatives – OTC, commodities, exchange/fx.
• Transaction reporting to regulatory – CFTC for regulatory compliance for trading. European or ESMA or FCA also good.
• NOT logistics, tax or imports/exports/customs.
• Trading transactional reporting, exchange traded derivatives.
• Working with traders, commercial COEs and other business on new business opportunities and the risk assessments for trade flows.
• Some training involved, knowledge sharing, presenting formally.
• Skills:
  • Risk mindset
  • Research and understand complex regulations and translate or train on it
  • Conceptual thinker, problem solver
• Duties:
  • No daily actives or transactions, more on the advising side working with TPC teams to be sure they can execute on the daily transactions—project based and support.
• Stakeholders:
  • Derivatives and compliance COE team – 30 people globally – responsible for monitoring and surveillance – they can use them for questions on regulatory questions.
  • Traders, commercials – look at due diligence on new trade flows or trade opportunities.