Soft Commodity Structurer recruitment
Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) provides a variety of services across the globe with an underlying specialisation in interest rate, commodity or foreign exchange related institutional trading, marketing, lending, clearing or platform provision.
The predominant FICC client base is financial institutions and significant commodity producers and consumers. With structuring, sales and trading professionals in the Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Canada, Asia and the Middle East, FICC offers quality service and risk management solutions to meet our clients' needs.
FICC offers trading, sales, research and finance covering:
- Fixed income – interest rate, debt and credit securities
- Currency – foreign exchange spot, forward and tailored services
- Commodities – metals, energy, environmental products, agriculture, freight, bulk commodities, and complementary futures services
FICC operates in most major trading markets and emerging markets around the world.
We are looking to recruit an experienced professional to work within FICC to help explore ways in which we may be able to deploy the bank's balance sheet to enhance our sales and trading activity. The types of transaction the business is considering at the moment include lending money:
- To grain co-operatives to build new elevation equipment, with a view to accessing some of their OTC business; and
- To a newbuild tissue mill, with a view to selling some hedging products around pulp and energy prices.
The candidate will have:
- Previous experience either in an advisory or lending capacity, or possibly as a structurer
- Strong background in soft commodities in Europe
- The capability to develop ideas on how our FICC business may be able to develop itself along the lines above.