I'm looking for candidates for a Risk Manager - Latin America, Agri Commodities (Oilseeds/Grain/Ethanol/Sugar) position

I'm looking for candidates for a Risk Manager - Latin America, Agri Commodities (Oilseeds/Grain/Ethanol/Sugar) position for a Global Supply Chain Management Organization, this position is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

My client is offering a salary range of $100,000 - $150,000 USD/Yr. base.

Please find below job description for your review:

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Our client is a market leader in managing the global supply chain of agricultural, industrial and energy products. They operate over multiple offices across the globe managing a diversified portfolio of essential raw materials, integrating the sourcing, marketing, processing, financing and transportation.

In Latin America our client’s primary product activities centre on the sourcing and exporting of oilseeds, wheat, corn,coffee, sugar, ethanol and fertiliser trading and marketing.

Reporting to the Head of Global Risk the Latin American Risk Manager is responsible primarily for providing independent identification, review, analysis and monitoring of the market risks of the Corporate trading desks across their Latin American operations.
Major responsibilities include working closely with traders and trading & management, quantitative, analytics and risk technology you will ensure the completeness and accuracy of the Value at Risk, Stress calculations and timely delivery of a daily oversight report explaining positions and movements in VaR; monitoring trades throughout the day to monitor their impact on positions against limits and look for any unusual activity.

The ideal candidate for this position will be someone who has had at least 5 years commodity trading experience gained within a trading house, energy company or bank and subsequently progressed their career specifically into a Market & Commodity Risk Management role.
Candidate will ideally have had extensive and diverse knowledge in commodity risk management
of Agri Soft .

Applicant must be local, must have a good knowledge of Latin American markets and will understand the risks and work with the trading desks to create monitor and analyze suitable limit structures, methodologies and movements and understand how this will impact the risks held by the desks. This role is at executive management level and involves managing a small team.
Applicants who have had a commercial background prior to risk will be particularly well regarded.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors degree in Math / Science / Economics/ Finance / Business / Commerce (with quantitative component)
• Solid product knowledge of a broad range of products especially grains and oilseeds, corn, soybeans, coffee, cocoa, sugar.
• Experience in Market Risk, Front Office or very strong Middle Office for a trading related business
• Excellent Excel skills incl VBA other programming skills would be and advantage
• Very good communicator – evidence of ability to interact and present at all levels
• Attention to detail and strong proven analytical background
• Fluency in Portuguese & English a must.

email resume vguillemette@gmail.com