Assistant Finance Manager - Commodity Trading

Responsibilities

• Drive procurement and cost analytics, including supplier benchmarking, cost trend analysis.
• Conduct in-depth business and profitability analysis on trades, including P&L breakdowns, deal economics evaluation, margin tracking, and scenario modeling.
• Monitor and manage key business risks such as commodity price exposure, hedge effectiveness, counterparty exposure.
• Oversee daily trade flow operations, including cash flow planning, working capital monitoring, receivables/payables oversight, and funding requirement forecasting in coordination with internal teams.
• Strengthen internal controls framework and continuous improvement of processes to ensure compliance and mitigate operational risks.
• Prepare management reports and presentations; deliver clear updates and recommendations to traders, senior management, procurement, and other departments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, or a related field.
• CPA or equivalent qualification is advantageous.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant finance experience, with at least 2 years gained directly in commodity trading, energy, metals, agriculture, or similar physical/derivatives environments.
• Strong commercial mindset with proven skills in business analysis, risk assessment, and financial controlling in a trading context
• Solid understanding of commodity markets, hedging instruments, price risk management, and basic trade finance/treasury concepts.
• Advanced Excel skills, familiarity with ERP systems, Power BI, is a plus.
• Good communicator - both written and spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin.