Aria Partners
Head of Commercial Finance & Risk
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A leading international commodities business is seeking to appoint a commercially minded Head of Commercial Finance & Risk to help shape and strengthen its financial risk management capability during an exciting period of growth.
This is a newly created position that will sit at the heart of the business, partnering closely with the CFO, senior leadership and commercial teams to ensure financial risks are understood, managed and embedded into decision making.
Rather than a traditional risk role, this is an opportunity to build a best-in-class financial risk framework within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where finance plays a key role in supporting commercial activity.
You'll take ownership of the organisation's financial risk framework, working closely with senior stakeholders across the business to strengthen governance, improve visibility over financial exposures and support strategic decision making.
This is a highly commercial role where you'll be embedded alongside the deal-making teams, helping evaluate the financial implications of transactions whilst ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place.
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Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with commercial, investment and finance teams from the early stages of transactions, assessing the wider financial impact and helping shape commercially workable structures.
- Bringing together market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, working capital, funding and balance-sheet considerations to provide senior leadership with a clear view of transaction risk.
- Managing financial risk across commodity, freight, asset and charter exposures, alongside foreign exchange, interest rates and hedging activities.
- Establishing and enhancing risk appetite, limits, governance and escalation processes that support commercial growth without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Assessing counterparties and trading relationships, including credit exposure, collateral, concentration and appropriate risk mitigants.
- Supporting strategic investment, capital-allocation and financing decisions, including new ventures, joint ventures and the developing investment platform.
- Translating complex financial and commercial exposures into clear recommendations and reporting for senior leadership, investors and joint venture partners.
- Strengthening controls, systems and financial-risk reporting as the business grows, while helping shape and develop the wider finance and risk capability.
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Requirements:
- A finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) is highly preferential
- Significant experience within a commodities trading business or other asset-intensive commercial environment.
- Strong understanding of market risk, liquidity, treasury, credit and counterparty risk.
- Experience partnering directly with front-office or commercial teams.
- The ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate in a fast-moving entrepreneurial business.
- A hands-on approach with the credibility to build processes whilst remaining close to the detail.
This is a rare opportunity to create and shape a newly established function within a growing international business. You'll work directly alongside senior leadership, helping build the financial risk capability needed to support the next phase of growth while playing a significant role in decision making.
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