Leonid Group is thrilled to be retained to work on a brand new search for one of our most prestigious clients in Europe, a market-leading commodities firm, based out of Zurich.

They’re looking for a Senior Manager, Trading Audit & Risk who’ll be a pillar of their governance functions and representative for them when working heavily across all their front office trading departments.

Job Description:

Based in Zurich, the Senior Manager, Risk & Audit will focus on Trading Operations across the business and will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

· Managing end-to-end delivery of operational and compliance audits on trading operations including planning, fieldwork and reporting

· Conduct risk assessments and develop risk-focused audit plans that identify and address potential operational and compliance risk areas arising from trading operations.

· Evaluation of the effectiveness of internal control environment and identify areas for control enhancements

· Preparation of (draft) of audit reports in clear and concise format

· Monitoring of the implementation of audit recommendations and action closure with auditees

· Managing on-time execution with support of junior resources

· Training and mentoring of junior audit staff

Qualifications:

· Profound understanding of commodities trading industry (full spectrum: physical, shipping, derivatives)

· Professional experience in an internal audit or risk functions or similar of 8 years with focus on commodities trading industry

· Proven track records of designing and managing commodities trading audit engagements covering the core risks areas such as Compliance, Market (price, forex, interest) and Credit risk areas

· Sound knowledge of audit and risk/control procedures, techniques and test / sampling methods

· Ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts and draws conclusions

· High analytical skills

· Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing