Junior Trading Assistant

☞ Glencore

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Update day: 26-03-2024

Location: Baar Zug ZG

Category: Finance / Bank / Stock Sales

Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Staffing Recruiting Human Resources

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

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  • Glencore Headquarters
  • Baar, Zug, Switzerland
  • FerroAlloys Department
We are looking for a Junior Trading Assistant to support our FerroAlloys team. This position will initially be based out of our Beijing office in China until you have familiarized yourself with the Chinese commodity market. You will then be seconded to our head office in Baar, Switzerland for one year to deepen your technical training.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

  • Marketing: Shadowing marketing team members during customer visits, visiting production and logistics facilities
  • Analysis: Assisting marketing team with market research and analysis
  • Contact with customers / field offices: Correspondence on availability of material in production, transit and in stock; documentation, invoicing, payments, client exposure control and claim handling
  • Contact to supervision companies and laboratories: Give full and detailed instructions to perform adequate assaying services
  • Logistics: Vessel chartering or container shipments in co-operation with our chartering team, organizing rail, truck and air transport or releasing of material in warehouse
  • Bank contacts – Letters of Credit (L/Cs): Opening of and checking of L/C’s for our suppliers and receivers, requesting amendments and negotiating documents for collection of payment
  • Hedging: Calculation of metal quantities and foreign currency amounts to be priced
  • Insurance: Insuring risks of each transport as well as material in storage
  • Internal tasks: Email exchange and direct contact with marketing team for the execution of 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

Qualifications:

  • A sound educational background (Bachelor or Master Degree)
  • Working experience through an internship, ideally in commodities/logistics would be an advantage
  • Excellent English skills (spoken and written), further languages are of advantage
  • Commercial experience within freight trading/chartering would be an asset
  • Familiarity of global trading routes
  • Understanding of hedging practices and management of trading position

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Deadline: 10-05-2024

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