Principal Accountabilities:

• Support the Enterprise Risk Leader, RMG Risk Manager and trading team through the delivery of risk analysis and insights to enable and promote a risk-informed decision making mindset within the business. Specific areas of contribution include in-depth analysis of risk exposures, trading performance, scenario analysis/stress testing of the respective portfolios and preparation and distribution of daily and weekly risk reports.
• Enable RMG to deliver on our value preservation mandate by ensuring that all meaningful market risk exposures are properly identified, quantified and communicated to enable the business to manage its risk profile within approved risk limits. From a risk quantification standpoint, the Risk Analyst will play a significant role in the design, implementation and validation of risk models, stress scenarios, and quantification techniques to appropriately capture market risk exposures generated by the business. This role will also be expected to deliver options analysis and scenario based simulations for RMG and the trading team.
• Process improvement and efficiency. Learn and understand existing processes and work across the RMG, Finance and Trading teams to modernize processes using programing languages such as Python and/or VBA, and creating reports using visualizations software such as Tableau or PowerBI.
• Support the Enterprise Risk Leader and Risk Manager in promoting the understanding and awareness of significant risk drivers within the business to key stakeholders which include business and commercial leaders and Cargill Corporate governance committee members (i.e. CRC and/or FRC). Build collaborative relationships with traders and trading management to assist the business in proactively anticipating how changing positions and/or market inputs will impact the overall risk profile of the business. Independently assess market and hedging correlations and relationships to support the implementation effective hedging and risk mitigation strategies. Provide quantitative and qualitative assessments of trade timing, sizing, and historical outcome assessments, to support a robust and effective performance improvement process within the business. Prepare trading performance reviews and support the risk manager in leading trading performance lookback.
• Support the RMG Central Team by ensuring alignment and consistency with risk processes and quantitative methods across other Cargill risk teams and performing routine back-testing to ensure risk metrics are aligned with probabilistic expectations. Embrace a continuous improvement mindset through active participation in broader RMG led initiatives and proactively share best practices with the broader RMG team.

Required Qualifications:

• 0-2 years of experience, with prior work experience preferred in a commodity trading environment as a research or market risk analyst
• The ideal candidate should be a team-player, detail-focused and process-oriented
• Strong quantitative skills with coursework in mathematics, statistics and/or computer science
• Programming experience with knowledge of programming languages such as Python or VBA
• Data management skills with knowledge/experience with visualization software such as Tableau or PowerBI
• Demonstrated interest in commodity markets and risk management
• The ability to operate in a complex environment with an ability to manage conflicting demands
• Desire to learn and apply new concepts with an inquisitive mind and willingness to question, or challenge assumptions
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English must and strong communication Mandarin preferred