About the Role
Drive profit generation through proprietary trading activities, with a primary focus on South Africa, Brazil, and/or Mexican Markets. Actively trade and invest in assigned markets including foreign exchange, interest rates, and sovereign credit, ensuring desk profitability and pursuing alpha generation through proprietary positioning.
Responsibilities
- Generate profits by trading assigned instruments including foreign exchange, local rates, or sovereign credit, with primary focus South Africa, Brazil and/or Mexico.
- Book and accurately reflect positions and strategies traded.
- Execute all desk trades across different asset classes to ensure minimum slippage and execution errors.
- Independently handle counterparty interactions and resolve transactional issues.
- Provide trade ideas and research information to other team members.
- Identify new trading strategies that complement the portfolio and augment the desk profit and loss.
- Provide expert thought leadership in your field.
- Work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify opportunities and problems.
- Provide direction to supporting team members.
- Act as a strategic contributor.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Confirmed financial trading track record with consistent high risk return results in the afore mentioned markets.
- Minimum of six years of related work experience.
- Prior beneficial experience generating trading profits in foreign exchange rates, local rates, sovereign credit markets and similar instruments.
- Prior beneficial experience providing trade ideas and research information to related team members.
Skills
- Foreign exchange
- Interest rates
- Sovereign credit
- Trading
Location
- South Africa
- Brazil
- Mexico
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of six years of related work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits
About the Company
- Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.
- Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
- Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well.
- With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values.
- We put people first.
- We reach higher.
- We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.
- We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents.
- Outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace.
- We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
- Cargill is committed to being an inclusive employer.
