Forex Risk Management Analyst - Physical Commodity

This opportunity is with an International physical commodity player

The role would involve training in Geneva for a minimum period of 6 months - 12 months. (with 2 years Travel Bond)

Job Title: Forex Risk Management Analyst

- Responsible for the identification, analysis, mitigation and connected back-office activity of Foreign Exchange Risk arising from Trading and Investment business conducted in all divisions of the company.

Key Responsibilities:

- Liaise with Operations and Deals Desk in identifying FX risks across all divisions: Trading, Overhead, Finance

- Develop hedging strategies for FX risk mitigation and gather related approval

- Deploy hedging strategies with internal broker

- Perform and coordinate the treasury back-office activity in relation to the hedging activity.

- Allocate the hedge PnL to each underlying exposure and monitor hedge effectiveness

- Liaise with Derivatives Back Office in order to agree daily settlements and resolve discrepancies

- Work with Treasury to manage account liquidity in foreign currency and minimize exposure and costs connected with interest rates and overdrafts

- Actively monitor the markets for events, opportunities and early sign of distress in order to inform management and traders timely

Key Relationships:

- Banks and Brokers

- Internal Broker and Back Office

- Operational Treasury

- Trade Finance

- Trading floor

Experience/Knowledge/Skills:

- 5 years relevant work experience with exposure to Foreign Exchange markets

- Bachelor Degree in Economics or scientific field

- Fluent English

- Be flexible, open minded, comfortable in working with firm deadlines and able to handle stress situations

- Good team-player and an open personality with energy and drive

- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and flair for IT systems

- Availability to travel few times per year, also for extended periods (especially for training purposes in the initial phase)

Renita Frank