Job Description

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

We seek a Trading Assistant to work within the Global Trading team to help manage a portfolio of multiple commodities with a specific focus on APAC region. In this role, you will help to develop, implement and execute investment strategies and control risks by performing more complex trading work.

Key Accountabilities

• A strong interest in financial markets and willingness to learn about the risk & trading practices.
• Apply deep understanding of option analytics to develop and execute the trading strategies and help manage the overall greeks of the portfolios.
• Using quantitative skills as well as statistical analysis to monitor trading positions and exposures.
• Work with external and internal stakeholders and agents, as needed, to execute and manage the portfolio.
• Work on projects ranging from in-depth analysis to price/volatility prediction algorithms and maintaining commodity balance sheet information
• Develop new market and trading capabilities within APAC region.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience along with experience and understanding of programming languages (Python, Excel, etc)
• Minimum of two years of relevant work experience: Agriculture/Petchem/ Metals/ Energy/Financial/FX background as well as understanding of vanilla derivatives
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing new approaches to hedging, including using financial or physical trading and positioning tactics
• Experience trading multiple local APAC or Cross markets and formulating opinions on market direction and price relationships
• Skillful in formulating a bias via fundamental analysis and articulate the bias to various internal and external stakeholders.
• Money-making experience in making markets, trading bespoke commodity books, or positioning around customer flow
• Derivatives (Futures & Options) trading experience is preferable

Key Behaviors

• Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Effectively build formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory, information to effectively solve problems.

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.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:
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