Trading Assistant

JAC Recruitment (UK) Ltd.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A global trading company seeks a Trading Assistant to manage administrative tasks for cocoa, sugar, and coffee operations. Responsibilities include margin management, shipment correspondence, and executing trades. Ideal candidates should be fluent in English, have strong computer skills, and effective time management abilities. This role is based in London with a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Fluent English language proficiency required.
• Strong computer skills are necessary, especially in Outlook, Word, Excel, and SAP.
• Effective time and task management skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Handle administrative tasks for cocoa/sugar/coffee department operations.
• Manage margin money and perform monthly reconciliations.
• Handle shipments, related correspondence, and invoicing.
• Execute trades and check recap statements.

Skills

Fluent English

Outlook

Word

Excel

SAP

Effective time and task management

Numeracy

Accuracy of numbers

Sense of responsibility

Can do attitude

Motivated personality

Job description

Overview

Title: Trading Assistant (Cocoa, Sugar & Coffee), Food Group

Salary: £31,000 - £34,000 per annum

Job profile: A Japanese global trading company is looking for a Trading Assistant.

Responsibilities

• To handle administrative jobs for future operation general administrative jobs for cocoa/sugar/coffee department (Future market order)
• To settle despatch/demurrage money for sugar to place future orders for cocoa/sugar/coffee
• To handle margin money (Daily morning job)
• To do margin money management and monthly reconciliation between broker's statement and SAP balance
• To handle honey business shipments, related correspondence, payments and SAP entries, issuing invoices, communicate with suppliers/customers related shipping side
• To send execution results and check trade on recap/statement.
• To liquidate future position and do relate administrative jobs
• Other Ad hoc administrative tasks as required

Skills/experience

• Language: English (Fluent)
• Computer skills - Outlook, Word, Excel, SAP (advantage)
• Effective time and task management
• Numeracy
• Accuracy of numbers
• Sense of responsibility
• Can do attitude
• Motivated personality

Location

London

Hours

Monday – Friday 8:30AM – 4:30PM with occasional overtime till 7.00PM when covering Future order execution (up to 20 hours).

Required starting at 8am on Japanese bank holidays (finish at 4pm in this case).

Overtime

Execution will be done after the market closure (6.30pm), and the candidate needs to accept occasional overtime until execution finished (approximately till 7.00pm).

Additional hours as required by the needs of the business.

Starting date

As soon as possible

Visa

Eligible to work in the UK without any restriction

About our client

Trade industry

#LI-JACUK #MW
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