Sao Paulo, São Paulo, BR

The Risk group is responsible for overseeing the trading activity, implementing metrics that quantify related performance and risk, and reporting relevant statistics and analysis to Management, various Control groups and Trading.

It is also responsible for analysing, evaluating and approving structured transactions conceived by the Business Development and Origination teams.

With global activities and a strong risk presence in Sao Paulo - Brazil, COFCO International is seeking a Market Risk Specialist for the Brazil Region to be based in Sao Paulo – Brazil, to fully support our G&O and SOFTS trading platforms and to be part of a Global Risk Organization.

Reporting to the Regional Chief Risk Officer for the regions with a dotted line to our Global Head of Market Risk, you will be responsible for:

• Assist in the development of Market Risk Analytics and implementation of industry leading Market Risk Methodologies in the region
• Develop Market Risk reports highlighting key risks to the Company’s portfolio and trading activity.
• Work with global peers within the Risk group to ensure that consistent controls, systems and processes are in place across the teams.
• Ensure that all Value-at-Risk movements are fully understood, reconciling how market movements and trading strategies have interacted to create the changes observed.
• Use market knowledge to understand and explain commercial activities and strategies. Measure and provide insights into the commercial performance.
• Provide insight into embedded optionality and risk profiles of assets.
• Manage the daily relationship with key stakeholders, including, Front Office, Operations, Finance including Product Control and IT.
• Use historical, fundamental and scenario-based analysis that can help in the evaluation of portfolio risk.
• Create analytical tools and models to capture risks related to assets and fixed commitments.
• Daily tasks to include a) risk reporting, b) Understanding trading strategies; c) Escalating and flagging risks to local and global senior management.
• Enforce the Global Market Risk Policy in the region.

Requirements:

• Previous experience working in agriculture trading environment either in market risk, research, middle office or trading.
• Good understanding of agriculture markets including physical markets in Brazil. The candidate should have the ability to understand trading strategies and highlight trading riks.
• Ability to understand position management and price risk for a physical and future commodities book.
• Understanding of the major market risk metrics such as the Value-at-Risk.
• Good understanding of options and modelling of Greeks is a plus.
• To be a self-starter & show proactive actions.
• Strong Excel is a must. R / C# / SQL or Python is a plus.