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Credit Risk Systems and Processes Owner

Sofia, Bulgaria
Job Reference JR0073976
Professional Areas Finance
Function Risk Management
Years of Work Experience 5 - 8
Start date 2024-03-01

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 17,000 people globally.

Risk Systems improvements:

  • Act as liaison between Credit Risk function and IT to ensure project timeliness and quality.
  • Review delivery from IT function and be ready to actively contribute to ensure it meets the business requirement.
  • Partner with IT and Credit risk function in the context of systems: assess, implement, and test technology enhancements. Ensure seamless integration of new trading systems and technologies with existing processes and credit risk systems.
  • Define success criteria and continuously communicate on achieving them to project teams.
  • Participate in the performance of UAT for system deliverables to ensure they meet the required functionalities and formalize acceptance on key deployments.

 Process optimization:

  • Contribute to Group-wide initiatives aiming to improve the timeliness and accuracy of risk position reporting. Playing pivotal role in projects such Integrated Risk Position and Back-office solution rollouts. This will encompass system integration, verification of business requirements, ensuring data consistency and testing.
  • Understand existing credit risk processes where relevant propose improvement on bottlenecks or inefficiencies. Develop and implement solutions to enhance process efficiency, accuracy, and automation where applicable.
  • Strive for high degree of data automation and quality to enable process harmonization, automation, and reporting.
  • Standardize processes across regions and platforms, leverage regional best practices across the group.

Participate to Business Intelligence initiatives for Credit Risk:

  • Collaborate with various teams including Credit Risk to understand the reporting requirements and existing report formats. Advise on best approach to implement improvements.
  • Explore opportunities to automate report generation processes using tools or scripting languages.
  • Ensure comprehensive documentation for report standardization processes, including data sources, transformations, and validation procedures.
  • Proven experience (typically 5-7 years) in credit risk and finance operations within a trading company or financial institution.
  • Familiarity with Risk systems, Trading systems, accounting systems, and related technologies.
  • Experience in implementing system as well as complex projects across several functions and business units.
  • Good understanding of financial products, commodity contracts (is a plus), mark-to-market concept, and risk management principles.

Additional Information for the job

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.



We offer

- Competitive salary and benefits

- Private medical insurance

- Life insurance

- Flexible working

- Access to Training and Development 

- Food vouchers

- Transportation Allowance

- Sports card with 90/10 coverage

- 25 days annual leave

- Modern office in communicative location

- Fruits days in the office

- Hybrid model of working

Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 17,000 people globally.


Job Description

Risk Systems improvements:

  • Act as liaison between Credit Risk function and IT to ensure project timeliness and quality.
  • Review delivery from IT function and be ready to actively contribute to ensure it meets the business requirement.
  • Partner with IT and Credit risk function in the context of systems: assess, implement, and test technology enhancements. Ensure seamless integration of new trading systems and technologies with existing processes and credit risk systems.
  • Define success criteria and continuously communicate on achieving them to project teams.
  • Participate in the performance of UAT for system deliverables to ensure they meet the required functionalities and formalize acceptance on key deployments.

 Process optimization:

  • Contribute to Group-wide initiatives aiming to improve the timeliness and accuracy of risk position reporting. Playing pivotal role in projects such Integrated Risk Position and Back-office solution rollouts. This will encompass system integration, verification of business requirements, ensuring data consistency and testing.
  • Understand existing credit risk processes where relevant propose improvement on bottlenecks or inefficiencies. Develop and implement solutions to enhance process efficiency, accuracy, and automation where applicable.
  • Strive for high degree of data automation and quality to enable process harmonization, automation, and reporting.
  • Standardize processes across regions and platforms, leverage regional best practices across the group.

Participate to Business Intelligence initiatives for Credit Risk:

  • Collaborate with various teams including Credit Risk to understand the reporting requirements and existing report formats. Advise on best approach to implement improvements.
  • Explore opportunities to automate report generation processes using tools or scripting languages.
  • Ensure comprehensive documentation for report standardization processes, including data sources, transformations, and validation procedures.

Experience
  • Proven experience (typically 5-7 years) in credit risk and finance operations within a trading company or financial institution.
  • Familiarity with Risk systems, Trading systems, accounting systems, and related technologies.
  • Experience in implementing system as well as complex projects across several functions and business units.
  • Good understanding of financial products, commodity contracts (is a plus), mark-to-market concept, and risk management principles.

Additional Information

Additional Information for the job

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.



We offer

- Competitive salary and benefits

- Private medical insurance

- Life insurance

- Flexible working

- Access to Training and Development 

- Food vouchers

- Transportation Allowance

- Sports card with 90/10 coverage

- 25 days annual leave

- Modern office in communicative location

- Fruits days in the office

- Hybrid model of working