FX Trader

Cargill; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global agribusiness firm is seeking a Treasury Trader in London. This permanent, full-time role involves managing funding and foreign exchange transactions, providing financial analysis, and advising on risks. Ideal candidates will hold a relevant degree and have prior experience in FX or funding desks. Competitive salary and benefits offered, with opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Private healthcare

Performance related bonus

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven work experience in FX / Funding desks of large corporates or major banks.
• Ability to communicate to a variety of stakeholders globally.

Responsibilities

• Handle day-to-day execution of external funding and foreign exchange transactions.
• Support partnerships to ensure optimal mix of funding.
• Perform foreign exchange trades while adhering to counterparty framework.
• Analyze financial markets and evaluate risk unit usage.
• Conduct market analyses for foreign exchange or interest rate advisory.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Systems literacy

Excel skills

Education

Bachelors/Masters Degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering

Tools

Bloomberg

Job description

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.

We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Benefits

Competitive salary plus comprehensive benefits package including contributory pension, private healthcare, performance related bonus and employee assistance programme.

Overview

Location: London (EC4R 9AT) - The position is a permanent, full time position Monday-Friday requiring 5 days per week in the London office. There can be occasional flexibility but this is a mainly office based role.

The European hub of Cargill’s global Treasury provides our businesses across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region with the critical support they need to run their business on a day-to-day basis and make important future decisions including; Financial Consulting and Analysis, Funding and Foreign Exchange, Cash Management and Credit Access & Bank Relationship Management.

The Treasury Trader will support Cargill's Funding and Foreign Exchange trading activities for the EMEA and North America Region to ensure that Cargill has access to the necessary funds, manages currency risks, optimizes costs and align with regulatory requirements.

The position holder will handle the risks associated with Funding and Foreign Exchange products using applied financial market knowledge.

Key Accountabilities

• TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT: Partners to handle the day to day execution of external funding and foreign exchange transactions for assigned countries
• FUNDING FLOW ANALYSIS: Supports partnerships with internal partners to ensure the optimal mix of funding for a geography between cross border and local funding sources and manages the interest rate risk and foreign exchange exposure of these short term funding positions
• FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADE EXECUTION: Performs foreign exchange trades for organizational groups while adhering to the counterparty framework and providing general foreign exchange advisory to the groups involved
• RISK ANALYSIS: Analyzes financial markets, evaluates risk unit usage and registers potential transactions with key partners in support of taking proprietary risk positions in the defined market
• MARKET ANALYSIS: Conducts market analyses to provide foreign exchange or interest rate advisory to help the organization navigate the complexities of currency and interest rate markets and make informed decisions

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in a relevant subject area; Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering
• Proven work experience in FX / Funding desks of large corporates or major banks
• Attention to detail, accuracy and understanding of Financial Risk
• Systems literacy with the ability to work with proprietary systems and market systems (Bloomberg) and strong Excel skills
• Proven communication skills in fluent and written English and able to communicate to a variety of stakeholders Globally

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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