Aria Partners
Head of Financial Risk Management
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A leading international commodities business is seeking to appoint a commercially minded Head of Financial Risk to help shape and strengthen its 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 organization'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 while ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place.
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Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and enhancing the group's financial risk management framework.
- Partnering with commercial teams to assess the financial impact of transactions and strategic decisions.
- Managing market risk across commodity exposure, foreign exchange, interest rates, and hedging activities.
- Overseeing credit and counterparty risk across trading relationships.
- Supporting liquidity, working capital, and capital structure management.
- Delivering high-quality reporting for senior leadership, investors, and joint venture partners.
- Driving improvements in governance, controls, and financial risk reporting as the business continues to grow.
- Leading and developing elements of the wider finance and risk function.
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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 while 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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