Junior Trading Assistant

Job highlights

• Full time
• Baar, Zug, Switzerland
• Trading Support

Job ID R200000779 Closing date 03/08/2024 Last Updated 03/07/2024

To support our Nickel Intermediates team, we are looking for a Junior Trading Assistant. In this role you will be required to develop, track & maintain position and markets reports, while supporting key interfaces between critical stakeholders, including trading, logistics, assets, finance, risk and senior management. You should be a motivated and committed person who is comfortable with a high pressure and fast-pace working environment. The job involves a flexible working schedule to respond to opportunities and travel, including over weekends, may be required.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Position Management and Reporting: Develop, track and maintain live nickel intermediate position reports (physical and hedging) to meet trading, accounting, risk and management reporting requirements
• Commercial Support: Supporting the identification, acquisition and co-ordination of nickel containing intermediate materials
• Market Analysis: Working closely with the nickel analyst team to provide key market assessments, including facilitating the collection of information through interaction with industrial peers, competitors and ancillary contacts
• Marketing: Shadowing marketing team members during customer visits, visiting production and logistics facilities
• Execution Risk Management: Support the management of risk within the material acquisition process, including with respect to customers profile (KYC), effective contract drafting, price risk, logistics optimization, credit risk, other execution risks, inventories and material safety
• Logistics/Storage : Supporting the evaluation & optimization of transport and storage options
• Contact with clients/field offices: Correspondence on availability of material in production, transit and in stock; documentation, invoicing, payments, client exposure control and claim handling
• Internal tasks: Email exchange and direct contact with traders for the execution of the contracts. Issuing profit and loss calculations, controlling of client exposures and internal position reporting. Dealing with accounting in regards to bookings, account reconciliation, monthly closing tasks and file liquidation

The ideal candidate

• is a team player with an independent and flexible work attitude
• is efficient, possesses well-organized working skills and is ready to adapt to international practices
• has strong analytical skills
• has good know-how in using IT applications (MS Office, Business Objects)

Qualifications and requirements

• A sound educational background (Bachelor or Master Degree), a technical qualification (i.e. metallurgy or chemical engineering) would be a valuable asset
• Proficiency in English (spoken and written), further languages are beneficial
• Effective communication (verbal and non-verbal) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex information in a clear and concise manner
• Team player with good interpersonal skills, capable of working effectively across various departments/teams/locations
• Enhanced organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Holding a Swiss work permit or passport holder of CH / EU

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Benefits

• We are committed to providing benefits, which promote mental, physical, and financial well-being. From healthy meal options in our restaurants and bistros to free use of the in-house gym including sport classes with professional trainers.
• We reimburse public transport for commuting to work; alternatively, we offer free parking space.
• We provide tuition assistance for further education and training courses.
• We have a competitive parental leave policy. Our childcare benefits also include emergency childcare services and financial assistance towards daycare costs.
• Employees’ Swiss Pension 2nd pillar is fully paid by Glencore.

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.

With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.

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