Trade Assistant
International Trading Concern is currently seeking to employ a Trade Assistant.
Requirements:
• 1 – 3 years working experience
• Tertiary qualification preferred ie: BComm etc
• Risk Management background is highly beneficial
• Fund Administration profile who understands market terminals and trading environment is beneficial
• Grains background would be beneficial, but not compulsory
• Strong in numbers and reconciliations
• Excellent communication skills (written, and verbal) in Afrikaans and English
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized
• Team player and able to work on his/her own
• Admin related position with potential for growth – trading desk
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced professional office environment with multi tasking skills
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, Outlook and web based applications
Duties will include but aren’t limited to:
• Timely and accurate trade capture in Trading One (position management software) on physical and derivatives
• In charge of the daily follow up and maintenance of all positions (past and forward, including but not limited to MtM valuation and PNL exposure)
• Assure proper internal communication between desks throughout (Front Office, Operations, Product Control, Freight and Finance desks)
• Provide support to traders on a daily basis in the preparation and verification of position reporting (exposure and PNL)
• Responsible for daily maintenance of open positions (physical trade applications, paper trade allocations, wash out proposals, MtM curve rolling/modifications, market daily prices verification and upload)
• Concentrate pricing responsibility; daily coordination of pricing to be done (versus cash), validity check of fixing orders, daily broker statement reconciliation and capture of executed orders
• Daily derivatives reconciliation
• Meet requests for ad hoc information

Please note: Should you not receive a response within 48 hours, please consider your application as unsuccessful.