senior middle office analyst - soft commodities

about the company

I am looking for a Middle Officer for my soft commodities client. This position serves as a critical, independent control function dedicated to ensuring the integrity of all trading data. The successful candidate will rigorously challenge commercial valuation assumptions, escalate reporting or control concerns, and provide firm assurance that both realized and unrealized trading results are accurate, fully supported, and strictly aligned with corporate accounting standards and valuation frameworks.

about the job

• Independently verify Mark-to-Market (MTM) valuations across physical and derivative portfolios utilizing external market data and pricing curves.
• Partner with Accounting and Operations teams to ensure precise inventory valuation and accurate month-end cut-offs.
• Monitor and enforce robust valuation controls throughout the end-to-end trade lifecycle.
• Generate, review, and distribute high-frequency (daily/weekly) trading P&L reports.
• Execute daily or weekly reconciliations across overall P&L, derivative positions, and physical inventory.
• Ensure valuation outputs perfectly align with the centralized data utilized by Treasury, FP&A, Accounting, and regional controllers.
• Deliver relevant risk metrics and trading P&L presentations to senior stakeholders, including the CFO, CRO, and Risk Committees.
• Proactively identify and escalate period-end reporting issues, late trade captures, revenue recognition errors, or unexplained P&L swings.
• Ensure all market data sources, pricing curves, and valuation methodologies are formally approved and meticulously documented.
• Define user requirements for product teams and conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to guarantee new systems fully support trade validation and valuation control mandates.

about the manager/team

• Report to Head of Middle Office
• CBD Area

skills and experience required

• 5 to 8 years of dedicated experience in Middle Office, Product Control, Valuation Control, Risk, or Finance within the commodity trading sector.
• Deep technical understanding of MTM accounting, pricing curves, P&L attribution, and valuation adjustments.
• Strong working knowledge of supply chain/logistics, hedging strategies, derivatives, and physical commodity markets.
• Advanced data analysis capabilities and high proficiency in Excel.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge commercial assumptions, explain complex P&L movements, and identify valuation breaks.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a proven track record of thriving under strict daily, weekly, and month-end deadlines.
• Excellent cross-functional stakeholder management skills (spanning Risk, Trading, Accounting, and Operations).

apply online please use the 'apply' function, alternatively you may contact Joanie Lau at 8938 3128.

(EA: 94C3609/ R23112944 )