The Interfood Group is a leading global dairy trading company (milk powders, butter, cheese, dairy blends etc.). The Group consists of 14 offices in all continents with more than 350 employees. Our constant strive for optimal quality, up-to-date knowledge and a profound focus on service, enables Interfood to create the difference for its robust network of both clients and suppliers. Interfood keeps on growing and developing by its proactive market approach.
We stimulate personal development and initiatives from our employees. Interfood, originally a family-based company, proves that global professionalism can still be combined with a unique personal company culture, in which we focus on following values: Teamwork, Commitment, Continuous Improvement, Professionalism & Responsible Leadership. All contributing to our purpose: Together for better.
Dairy Derivatives
The dairy derivatives markets are developing rapidly with increasing liquidity across the CME, EEX and SGX. This allows Interfood to hedge our commodity price risk and add value to our customers wanting to limit their exposure. This leading role in the derivatives finance team is responsible for working closely with our derivatives traders in Singapore and maintaining the integrity of the derivatives positions within our limits, ensuring that all the processes run smoothly (position matching, settlement, optimisation of positions across brokers as well as a suite of regular reporting to the business and management). Reporting directly to the finance director for the region this role is growing in profile and is becoming more important as we continually build out our derivatives trading capability within APAC.
Key Responsibilities:
· Daily reconciliation of executed derivatives trades (futures and options) with broker statements and confirmations as well as our internal IT systems.
· Maintaining accurate reporting of derivative transactions and results.
· Ensuring compliance with internal VAR risk limits.
· Managing margin calls/excess cash related to derivatives and work with commercial team to optimise positions across brokers to minimise cash utilisation.
· The preparation of management reports utilising tools such as Powerpoint and Thinkcell applications.
· Working with the project team to improve reporting capabilities of Tableau/JDE.
· Collaborating with the middle office teams in the other Interfood Hubs to drive process efficiencies.
· Supporting derivative traders and finance/business control team in various day to day operations and ad hoc requirements.
· Supporting the finance team in timely month end and annual close.
What we are looking for:
· Degree in finance, economics, maths or a related field
· Experience working in commodities in a similar role within Middle office/risk
· Knowledge of futures and options - essential
· Excellent command of the English language (Mandarin a plus) both verbally and written
· Strong numerical skills and excellent with Excel
· Preferably with VB/SQL, Python knowledge
· Preferably Tableau knowledge
· Assertive, committed, can work independently, proactive
· Strong attention to detail
· Work well within a team
· Good communication skills
