Market Risk Senior Analyst

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COFCO International is a global agri-business with a clear vision, strong values and a positive culture, focused on being a leader in the global grains, oilseeds and sugar supply chains. We provide the food the world needs in a responsible way. Headquartered is Geneva, Switzerland, we are ambitious, with the right structures and culture to meet the world's increasing and changing needs. With 11,000+ people in 35 countries, our global portfolio includes assets across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We trade with over 50 nations, while providing farmers unique direct access to the growing Chinese market.

Job Purpose:

With global activities and a strong presence in both origins and destination, COFCO International is seeking aSenior Market Risk Analyst to fully support APAC commodity activities as well as COFCO international financial platform.

The Risk group is an independent global team which is responsible for overseeing the trading activity, implementing metrics that quantify related performance and risk, reporting relevant statistics and analysis to Management and enforce the market risk framework.

It focuses on market understanding, the ability to build adverse scenarios and mitigating solutions that prevent company losses.

Reporting to theGlobal Head of Market Risk, you will be responsible for:

• Assist in the development of Market Risk Analytics and implementation of industry leading Market Risk Methodologies in the region
• Develop Market Risk reports highlighting key risks to the Company’s portfolio and trading activity.
• Work with global peers within the Risk group to ensure that consistent controls, systems and processes are in place across the teams.
• Ensure that all Value-at-Risk movements are fully understood, reconciling how market movements and trading strategies have interacted to create the changes observed.
• Use market knowledge to understand and explain commercial activities and strategies. Measure and provide insights into the commercial performance.
• Provide insight into embedded optionality and risk profiles of assets.
• Manage the daily relationship with key stakeholders, including, Front Office, Operations, Finance including Product Control and IT.
• Use historical, fundamental and scenario-based analysis that can help in the evaluation of portfolio risk.
• Create analytical tools and models to capture risks related to assets and fixed commitments.
• Daily tasks to include a) risk reporting, b) Understanding trading strategies; c) Escalating and flagging risks to local and global senior management.
• Enforce the Global Market Risk Policy in the region.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5-6 years of experience working either in agriculture trading and/or financial Trading environment either in market risk, research, middle office or trading.
• Good understanding of either agriculture markets including physical markets or global FX markets. The candidate should have the ability to understand trading strategies and highlight trading riks.
• Ability to understand position management and price risk for a physical, future commodities and FX book.
• Understanding of the major market risk metrics such as the Value-at-Risk.
• Good understanding of options and modelling of Greeks.
• To be a self-starter & show proactive actions.
• Strong Excel is a must. R / C# / SQL or Python is a plus.

COFCO International is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.