Robert Walters is working exclusively with a fast-growing, international commodities business to appoint a senior financial risk leader.

Head of Commodity Financial Risk - Market, Credit & Treasury

London | Five days per week in the office | Base salary circa £300,000 plus highly competitive bonus

Robert Walters is working exclusively with a fast-growing, international commodities business to appoint a senior financial risk leader.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading market-risk oversight across commodity exposure, asset and charter risk, foreign exchange and interest-rate risk.

• Monitoring exposure across physical and financial positions, assessing concentration and downside scenarios, and providing relevant risk insight to senior decision-makers.

• Establishing and enhancing market-risk limits, risk appetite, stress testing, scenario analysis, exposure reporting and escalation processes.

• Leading credit and counterparty-risk activity across the group's commercial and trading relationships.

• Assessing counterparty creditworthiness, setting and monitoring credit limits, recommending risk mitigants and managing exceptions or escalations.

• Leading treasury-risk oversight, including liquidity, cash-flow forecasting, working capital, debt and financing exposure, bank relationships, FX and interest-rate sensitivity.

The person

You will bring:

• A proven background in a trading house, commodity merchant, energy platform, shipping business or comparable asset-heavy organisation.

• Strong practical experience of commodity, market, FX, interest-rate, liquidity and counterparty-risk management.

• A clear understanding of physical commodity trading and the interaction between commercial activity, credit exposure, working capital, hedging and liquidity.

• Experience of building or materially enhancing financial-risk frameworks, limits, reporting, governance and decision-support processes.

• Credibility with senior commercial stakeholders and the confidence to provide constructive challenge in a fast-moving environment.

If you meet the above set criteria, please apply or send a copy of your CV to

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