Chartered Accountant -Trade Accountant Role - SugarTrade Accountant

Company Description

ED&F Man Commodities is a leading provider of soft commodities and logistics, including sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feeds, and fish oil. Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 employees in 42 countries. The company sources, stores, trades, ships, and distributes a wide range of products to over 300 customers and 600 suppliers worldwide, generating annual revenue in excess of $8 billion. Sustainability is integral to their culture, values, commercial strategy, and daily operations, ensuring a positive impact on people, communities, and the planet.

Role Description

The primary responsibility of the Trade Accountant is to control and report high quality and value adding financial information related to commercial activity. This is a key role in an exciting part of the business, involving close interaction with trading teams, finance, and risk. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain a unique insight into the business.

Our ideal candidate will have proven experience of operating within a fast-paced trading environment with a proactive approach to transactional activities, financial reporting, and control.

Role responsibilities

The primary aim of this role is to manage the Trade Accounting for sugar traded in a variety of global trading locations. The core responsibilities entailed are:

• Ensuring complete and accurate information is produced for Spec Book on daily basis.
• Ensuring complete and accurate information is produced for FX exposure on daily basis and ensuring concise explanation for key moves in given periods.
• Ensuring other day to day activity related to Trade accounting is carried out.
• Ensuring a robust control environment, in line with Minimum Control Standards.

Actively partake in projects to bring improvement to the Sugar reporting process P&L attribution, Balance Sheet analysis & Reconciliation to General Ledgers etc.

Review and validate daily margin calls with the exchange.

Ad hoc duties as required.