Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Finance Manager to work in a truly global environment to oversee financial operations, including accounting, forecasting, planning, and compliance, reporting to Regional Finance Director for Europe. The role provides long term development potential for someone eager to demonstrate their skills and experience in the fast-paced soft commodities environment.

Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

This role will be working for Volcafe UK, with a hybrid/remote working option from our Bristol offices.

Key Accountabilities

• End to end ownership of the control environment for the full cycle of the business with a focus on the complete enterprise risk matrix of the business unit, and lead support for regional compliance as needed
• Timely and accurate management and financial reporting for the business unit
• Complete oversight of all external tax and compliance related requirements and reporting impacting the business unit
• Ensure compliance with all Internal financial and accounting policies and guidelines including authorisation matrixes, credit, counterparty, and trading mandate limits as well as policy roll outs and periodic checks
• Ownership of all corporate reporting to group for the business unit
• Oversight of the unit’s ERP systems and processes
• Ownership of all historical organisation data related to management and financial reporting
• Qualitative review of monthly financials and providing detailed analysis to stakeholders
• Tracking cycle time efficiencies and reporting on all key business value drivers with a thorough understanding of the business value drivers
• Developing and maintaining financial projections/forecasts and sensitivity analysis including detailed models in line with commercial strategies
• Ownership of all budgeting processes and month on month variance analysis with detailed commentary of performance to drive cost efficiencies and identify opportunities
• Perform all ad-hoc research as may be needed by the stakeholders
• Working capital tracking and reporting on optimal balance sheet optimization including tracking all financial covenants of the organisation
• Drive finance transformation to improve synergy within the team and enhance collaboration with stakeholders in trade, commercial & operations, logistics, IT and corporate
• Drive contribution to the bottom line through various structured trade finance opportunities and ensuring robust insurance and facilities management
• Provide thought leadership for their team with a focus on developing a best-in-class team
• Align departmental short-term goals for maximum impact on organization strategy; process optimization to drive strategy and collaboration

Skills and Experience

• Extensive progressive experience in finance and accounting and prior experience as a senior controller or senior manager within a finance department – ESSENTIAL
• Background in the commodity trading industry – HIGHLY DESIRABLE
• Manufacturing or FMCG industry background will also be considered
• Professional qualification e.g., ACCA/ CMA/ CIMA/ CPA with current membership
• Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in finance, accounting, or related field
• External audit experience, or corporate finance – DESIRABLE
• Experience with financial modelling – DESIRABLE
• Experience with project management and IT implementations
• Good team player with ability to work independently and lead cross functional teams
• High attention to detail and open minded with a quick learning curve
• Ability to work with diverse cultures

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

Role Overview

An essential role in ensuring the group’s adherence to compliance requirements and industry legislation regarding sanctions, AML, ABC, and CTF reporting to the Deputy Head of Compliance. This role works with the business to process requests for due diligence on all new and existing counterparties, intermediaries, and service providers (including vessels). This role demands knowledge of global sanctions regimes and experience in using due diligence software and screening tools to manage ongoing monitoring of red flag alerts.

Business Overview

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and fish oils. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

Key Accountabilities

• Conduct Due Diligence and Know Your Customer (KYC), including Sanctions, AML, ABC, and CTF checks for the onboarding of new counterparties, and refresh/ ongoing monitoring for pre-existing counterparties as part of the ED&F Man Group Sanctions & Due Diligence policy and procedures.
• Perform screening by reviewing counterparty documentation, trade capture data, and external screening tools and validating the information obtained on the counterparty using a variety of independent research sources.
• Perform data quality review of KYC requests for completeness, including ensuring all appropriate information is contained in the KYC to meet all regulatory, legal, bank and audit requirements.
• Process all outgoing KYC requests for stakeholder banks and clearing brokers.
• Execute and review negative media alerts from client screening and escalate where necessary.
• Perform QC checks to ensure high quality screening standards are upheld.
• Understand sanctions risks, AML, ABC and anti-tax evasion requirements, documentary red flags and approaches to mitigate risk during due diligence checks.
• Perform additional due diligence on high-risk counterparties, or where a red flag has been raised.
• Maintain detailed records on counterparties for second-level review, and internal audit/ external regulatory inspection.
• Liaise with counterparties, Front Office, Credit, Legal and Operations as necessary as part of the KYC process.
• Support process documentation exercise for all future regulatory changes and process improvements within the scope of KYC/ AML.
• Prepare management information on number of counterparties screened, timeliness of screening, red flag rates, approval, and rejection rates for Deputy Head of Compliance.
• Continuously develop knowledge of Sanctions, AML, ABC, CTF and anti-tax evasion related regulations.

Skills and Experience

• At least 2 years proven experience in a due diligence/KYC role within commodities – physical trading ESSENTIAL, preferably agricultural soft commodities although other commodities might be considered.
• Experience of working with industry standard GRC software (such as Lexis Nexis, Refinitiv, Thomson Reuters) and screening tools (Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, BvD) – BENEFICIAL
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical solutions.
• Proficiency in strategic analysis.
• Fluent professional business English ESSENTIAL, additional languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian BENEFICIAL.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

Role Overview

The Health Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager will be responsible for maintaining and improving our HSE programs to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies across our operations in UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. This role is critical in fostering a safe working environment and promoting a culture of continuous improvement in HSE practices. The HSE Manager will report directly to the UK Managing Director, and has a dotted functional reporting line to the Head of HSEQ of ED&F Man.

This role could be based from Liverpool, Hull or Grangemouth and will involve travel to storage facilities across the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES ARE ENGAGED TO RECRUIT TO THIS ROLE.

Business Overview

ED&F Man Liquid Products Division is the leading global supplier in molasses, molasses blends and related liquid products as well as dry products for (mainly) the animal feed industry. We are a pioneer as well as a trader in liquid agricultural by- and co-products. We offer expertise in animal nutrition and feed dispense technology to farmers. We work closely with manufacturers, such as rum and yeast producers, to provide quality products from sustainable sources. Our capability includes sourcing, shipping, storage and distribution of molasses, molasses blends and other sugar co-products, as well as vegetable and fish oils.

We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Key Accountabilities

• HSE Program Management: Maintain and improve comprehensive HSE programs and policies tailored to bulk liquid storage and blending operations.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with all local, national, and international health, safety, and environmental regulations, as well as company standards and policies. This includes maintaining ISO14001 certifications across UK and Ireland and leading environmental sustainability.
• Risk Assessment: Conduct regular risk assessments and job hazard analyses to identify potential hazards and implement appropriate control measures.
• Training: Develop and deliver HSE training programs for employees, contractors, and subcontractors to ensure all personnel are knowledgeable about safety protocols and procedures.
• Inspections and Audits: Conduct regular site inspections and annual audits to monitor compliance with HSE standards, identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions.
• Incident Investigation: Lead investigations into safety-related incidents and accidents, determine root causes, and recommend corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Emergency Response: Maintain emergency response plans, conduct drills, and ensure readiness to handle potential emergencies effectively.
• Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement in HSE practices, staying abreast of industry best practices and technological advancements.
• Operate as part of the UK Business Management Team.

Skills and Experience

• Recognised professional certification or diploma in Health, Safety and Environment (e.g. NEBOSH, IEMA, IOSH, NVQ Level 3).
• Experience working within Comah/Seveso and ISO14001 standards is highly desirable.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an HSE role, preferably within the bulk liquid storage or chemical industry.
• In-depth knowledge of UK and EU HSE regulations and standards.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing HSE programs and policies, and internal auditing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet ever requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Finance Manager to become a key member of the UK coffee business unit, as well as the European senior finance team, reporting to the Regional CFO for Europe. The Finance Manager will assume a strategic role in the overall management of the business unit. They will have primary responsibility for planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial-related activities of the business unit. This includes but is not limited to direct responsibility for managing the internal finance function including accounting, cash forecasting, strategic planning, and compliance. The Finance Manager also holds overall oversight and management of the IT function across the business unit. As such they will lead and take full responsibility over financial and management reporting in a timely and accurate manner, while adding value to the business through partnering with all stakeholders to deliver on business unit compliance processes and insightful, forward-looking data in line with strategic objectives.

Business Overview

Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

Key Accountabilities

• End to end ownership of the control environment for the full cycle of the business with a focus on the complete enterprise risk matrix of the business unit, and lead support for regional compliance as needed
• Timely and accurate management and financial reporting for the business unit
• Complete oversight of all external tax and compliance related requirements and reporting impacting the business unit
• Ensure compliance with all Internal financial and accounting policies and guidelines including authorisation matrixes, credit, counterparty, and trading mandate limits as well as policy roll outs and periodic checks
• Ownership of all corporate reporting to group for the business unit
• Oversight of the unit’s ERP systems and processes
• Ownership of all historical organisation data related to management and financial reporting
• Qualitative review of monthly financials and providing detailed analysis to stakeholders
• Tracking cycle time efficiencies and reporting on all key business value drivers with a thorough understanding of the business value drivers
• Developing and maintaining financial projections/forecasts and sensitivity analysis including detailed models in line with commercial strategies
• Ownership of all budgeting processes and month on month variance analysis with detailed commentary of performance to drive cost efficiencies and identify opportunities
• Perform all ad-hoc research as may be needed by the stakeholders
• Working capital tracking and reporting on optimal balance sheet optimization including tracking all financial covenants of the organisation
• Drive finance transformation to improve synergy within the team and enhance collaboration with stakeholders in trade, commercial & operations, logistics, IT and corporate
• Drive contribution to the bottom line through various structured trade finance opportunities and ensuring robust insurance and facilities management
• Provide thought leadership for their team with a focus on developing a best-in-class team
• Align departmental short-term goals for maximum impact on organization strategy; process optimization to drive strategy and collaboration

Skills and Experience

• Professional qualification e.g., ACCA/ CMA/ CIMA/ CPA with current membership
• Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in finance, accounting, or related field
• Extensive progressive experience in finance and accounting, preferably in commodities, manufacturing or FMCG with experience as a senior controller or senior manager within a finance department
• External audit experience, or corporate finance – DESIRABLE
• Experience with financial modelling – DESIRABLE
• Experience with project management and IT implementations
• Good team player with ability to work independently and lead cross functional teams
• High attention to detail and open minded with a quick learning curve
• Ability to work with diverse cultures

 We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

Role Overview

We have an exciting newly created opportunity for someone to join us as a Senior Manager – Compliance Project Management Office to work in a truly global environment. The position will be responsible for developing and driving the implementation of a suite of compliance projects across the global business to build ED&F Man’s global compliance program, framework, and capability reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer. The role provides long term development potential for someone eager to demonstrate their skills and experience in the fast-paced soft commodities environment.

18 months fixed term contract.

Business Overview

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and fish oils. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

Key Accountabilities

• Working with the appropriate stakeholders in planning and designing the compliance project management office and individual projects, ensuring that business requirements are satisfactorily captured and there is a sufficient level of challenge to program/project requirement definitions.
• Establish program goals, objectives, deliverables, timeframes, costs for the project management office and each project.
• Work with the technology function in establishing an approach to cross-functional project tracking and reporting and align reporting in compliance to the agreed approach.
• Proactively monitoring the overall project progress, including quality of delivery and tracking outcomes – resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
• Monitoring and coordinating dependencies across the projects in the program and resolving conflicts.
• Establishes and ensures appropriate governance functions for the program.
• Ensuring delivery of the transformation whilst not disrupting the businesses.
• Manager ED&F Man’s policy governance project to completion, which includes finalization of ED&F Man’s policy document review and circulation of materials.
• Plan and lead compliance related risk assessments.
• Provide information required for integration planning.
• Work with ED&F Man’s technology function to inform and execute compliance related technology projects.
• Work with HR to gain HR data that is suitable for compliance requirements.
• Work with various functions to deliver and monitor the delivery compliance requirements.
• Prepare internal compliance related reports for regular meetings and as requested.
• Undertake a trade flow mapping exercise to document ED&F Man’s trade flows by product, market, volumes, and values.
• Develop draft compliance related policies to close compliance framework gaps.

Skills and Experience

• Compliance program management experience in a global business will be prioritized preferably combined with exposure/knowledge of commodity trading.
• Strong track record of compliance infrastructure program delivery to tight time frames – highly preferred.
• Strong commercial business acumen.
• Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to develop and communicate the program objectives, inspire and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with the business strategy.
• A high degree of political sensitivity, astuteness and the ability to navigate, engage and influence key stakeholders to implement change, overcome obstacles and ensure program success.
• A high level of empathy and the ability to vary styles of interaction to match the needs of a variety of temperaments and personalities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain and “sell” the program goals and objectives to the business and senior leadership.
• Influencing and negotiation experience and skills in an environment with high competition for resources.
• Excellent analytical, strategic planning and execution skills.
• Ability to develop programs and deliver them with financial and resource constraints.
• Experience across a range of project types.
• Understanding of current and emerging technologies.
• A positive service-oriented, program delivery approach.
• An ability to work collaboratively with senior colleagues across multiple functions and business units.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Compliance Officer to work in a truly global environment to support ED&F Man’s global sugar business unit, reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring activities comply with applicable rules and regulations. You will support the day-to-day trading activities of the business and develop and advise on policies, processes, and procedures. You will also have an opportunity to provide ongoing compliance training to the business working with various functions across the business to support the development and implementation of compliance projects. The role provides long term development potential for someone eager to demonstrate their skills and experience in the fast-paced soft commodities environment.

Business Overview

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and fish oils. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the implementation of ED&F Man’s global compliance program across the business
• Undertake risk assessments to identify key compliance risk and required mitigation
• Monitor compliance with internal policies and international regulations
• Monitor communications to ensure compliance with policies and laws
• Provide the business with regular compliance guidance in relation to high-risk trading activity
• Provide ongoing compliance training to the business covering internal policies and external laws
• Support the central compliance function and the business with counterparty KYC activities including understanding of how sanctions risks can be identified and mitigated and in key markets in which the business operates
• Identify compliance issues across the business and reporting them to the Chief Compliance Officer and working towards their rectification
• Review marketing materials and external presentations to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Support the central compliance team by gathering information relevant to the business
• Work with Internal Audit on fraud or related investigations relating to our sugar business unit
• Manage compliance related SpeakUP investigations relevant to our sugar business unit
• Support various compliance projects implemented across the business
• Consistently engage with the businesses trading and leadership teams to ensure compliance remains a top priority
• Provide compliance support and advice to the trading business covering both financial and physical trading
• Advising on and monitoring compliance with policies and regulations including MiFid, REMIT, EMIR, MAR and Dodd Frank
• Monitor market abuse, anti-trust, and sanctions compliance
• Monitor OTC and exchange trading activity to ensure compliance with rules and local regulatory requirements

Skills and Experience

• Considerable and direct trading compliance experience working for a physical commodities trading house – essential
• Knowledge of UK, US, EU and other international compliance regulations applicable to commodity trading – essential
• Experience of providing compliance advice and guidance to traders – essential
• Degree in law or economics – highly advantageous
• Experience in being part of developing a compliance program and monitoring compliance performance
• Exceptional stakeholder leading and influencing skills
• Excellent communication and relationship building experience
• High ethical standards
• Critical problem-solving skills
• Ability to make informed decisions quickly

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet ever requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

Role Overview

We have an opportunity for someone to join us as a Legal Counsel to become core to our groups legal function to support deal structuring, negotiation, documentation, execution, post-closing supervision, day-to-day management and ensuring the ongoing compliance of the group’s syndicated and bilateral lending arrangements.

In addition, the Legal Counsel will assist the group and group legal team with all relevant legal activities on an ad hoc basis, including (but not limited to), contract terms and conditions, legal due diligence, policies, legal compliance, legal, corporate governance, entity formation and litigation.

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and fish oils. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain a record of all major borrowing facilities and ensure ongoing compliance with, and protection of security arrangements, covenants and other such commitments through legal policy, governance and controls.
• Conduct legal due diligence on new, and amendments or extensions to, financing agreements.
• Advise relevant internal stakeholders on material legal matters.
• Manage third party legal service provider relationships, ensuring competitive, cost-effective service provision.
• Contribution to a high-performance, collaborative team culture within the group function, and company more generally, to deliver the processes, thoroughness and depth of checks and tests for effective consolidation accounting, and an inclusive environment for our people leading to confidence, growth, retention, and reputation.

Skills and Experience

• Qualified lawyer with solid and related post qualification experience as an in-house lawyer or lawyer in a leading law firm.
• Working knowledge of and experience in trade and commodity financing products including borrowing bases, secured and unsecured corporate lending, inventory financing, self-liquidating structures, receivables financing, contingent instruments, repurchase transactions and general banking experience.
• Experience with ISDA documentation advantageous.
• Experience with cross-border transactions.
• High level of initiative, integrity and commercial understanding.
• Adept at developing interpersonal relationships.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

Role Overview

We have a fantastic new opportunity for an experienced and tenacious Talent Acquisition Business Partner to work in a truly global environment to play a pivotal role in sourcing, attracting, and hiring top talent for our organisation, reporting to, and working closely with the global talent acquisition manager. You will manage end to end recruitment and search processes, ensuring quality hires, an efficient and effective in-house recruitment service that prioritises direct hiring, as well as a high-touch candidate and hiring manager experience. You will partner closely with a variety of diverse multi-disciplinary stakeholders globally and will support the talent acquisition manager in ensuring robust reporting, recruitment best practise, talent mapping, networking and talent pipeline building, as well as being involved in key talent acquisition projects.

Whilst primarily remote based applicants living in the West Midlands, Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire or home counties will be prioritised.  

Business Overview

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and pulses. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

Key Accountabilities

• Managing the full life cycle of recruitment and search processes for junior to mid- level positions across the business, from approval to recruit through to verbal offer acceptance.
• Prioritizing a direct sourcing strategy, below average time to hire, quality of hire and high-touch, candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Utilizing various sourcing methods; LinkedIn, job boards, social media sharing, LinkedIn headhunting, employee referrals and internal advertising.
• Creating compelling and attractive job adverts and advertising on all the key platforms available.
• CV sifting, candidate screening, providing consistent, clear overviews of the business and the role, assessing candidates against the role, and hiring manager criteria, through to shortlisting for hiring manager assessment.
• Managing and coordinating the hiring manager interview process ensuring interview best practice and coaching managers where needed.
• Providing detailed constructive interview feedback, managing and negotiating offers.
• Business partnering with and advising a diverse range of multi-disciplinary hiring managers and HR colleagues across our global business.
• Research, build and maintain talent pipelines in key skills shortage areas as guided by the talent acquisition manager to support future hiring needs and where needed external succession planning, in line with the business strategy.
• Partnering and engaging with carefully selected recruitment or search agencies where appropriate and approved by the talent acquisition manager.
• Researching and co-creating content for the business social media pages to increase our followers and improve employer brand perception in the market.
• Contribute to the evaluation and improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and candidate experience.
• Talent acquisition project involvement and contribution across EDI, systems enhancements/implementations and employer brand building and as guided by the talent acquisition manager.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in talent acquisition/recruitment from a corporate in-house and/or agency environment.
• Industry exposure from one or more of the following: FMCG, Financial Services and/or Commodity Trading.
• Passion for talent acquisition and a commitment to deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Good understanding of recruitment best practice across the whole recruitment process, including experience of critical candidate assessment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and collaborate effectively with hiring managers, HR business partners and candidates.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, with capacity to manage and prioritize multiple priorities, deadlines, and requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail especially with written communication.
• Resilience and tenacity, target driven with a continuous improvement mind-set.
• Problem solving skills and ability to think innovatively to overcome recruitment challenges.
• Willing and able to travel weekly to Worcestershire and occasionally to London.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Treasury Analyst to work in a truly global environment reporting to the Treasury Operations Manager. The Treasury Analyst will form part of the treasury operations department and help oversee and execute daily treasury activities, perform month-end duties, and monitor daily controls. The treasury team is part of group treasury which is based across London and Amsterdam. This role has great growth opportunities as the team is transitioning to a technology led straight through processing environment.

Business Overview

Established in 1783, ED&F Man is an employee-owned agricultural commodities merchant with 2,800 people in 43 countries and annual revenue in excess of $8bn. We trade sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and fish oils. Corporate responsibility is ingrained in our culture. We are passionate about sustainable production, take care to limit the environmental impact of our operations and actively support the communities in which we work.

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Key Accountabilities

• FX deal execution using FXall – arrange spot, forward and swap trades, in line with the group treasury policy.
• Bank account administration and maintenance.
• Management of internal loans, documentation and related interest/fees.
• Provide backup and support for corporate treasury activities such as;
  • Process payments using online banking systems.
  • Funding.
  • FX and debt settlements.
  • Record treasury transactions in treasury management system (Kyriba).
• Assist with the resolution of payment, loan and FX discrepancies.
• Assist in month-end reporting on treasury transactions and intercompany balances.
• Assist in system developments (Kyriba and TPS).
• Assist in providing front line customer service to internal clients and banks, answering queries in a timely and professional manner.
• Systems used include: FXall (electronic trading platform), Kyriba (treasury management system), TPS (in-house treasury payment system) and electronic banking platforms.

Skills and Experience

The post-holder will need a high level of attention to detail, accuracy and the flexibility to perform a wide variety of tasks in the broader treasury department. The post-holder will also need to have a strong customer focus, be adaptable to change and be able to proactively work with the team.

Essential:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business economics, accounting, or finance.
• Experience in the corporate treasury environment.
• Attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills.
• Continuous improvement mind-set.

Desirable:

• An understanding of treasury accounting principles.
• Experience with interacting with multiple business units around the world.
• Knowledge of interest rate, foreign exchange, commodity and derivatives markets and risks.
• Experience using Kyriba and FXall is advantageous.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet ever requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the team in Bristol as an experienced logistics and accounts coordinator to work in a truly global environment across the supply chain that feeds into the UK and Ireland green coffee market. You will oversee all inbound and outbound stock movements – from origin countries through to end-client delivery via our trusted warehouse and distribution partners reporting to the country manager. This is a key client-facing accounts support function with responsibility for the generation and distribution of all invoices receivable, acting as first point of contact for our clients for all logistics, accounts and invoicing enquiries, good customer service is paramount. The role is both varied and complex, involving cross-department working and across multiple territories, often to tight deadlines.

Business Overview

Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage all forward purchases and export functions including shipping instructions, declarations and warehouse/transportation instructions.
• Manage all import of stock to include customers clearance procedures into both UK and Ireland.
• Manage and build stakeholder relationships with key partners across logistics, warehousing and distribution, prioritising customer service.
• Respond promptly and efficiently to all client enquiries and liaise with distribution partners for the daily releases of outbound stock.
• Generate, distribute and ensure timely receipt of all invoices, receivables and account statements with our clients and suppliers.
• Monitor and update clients with stock position statements and contract expirations to ensure timely delivery of coffee within contracted terms.

Skills and Experience

You will use your logistics industry experience, passion and problem-solving initiative to help us be better across our critical back-office services.

• Minimum of 2 years logistics industry experience, ideally in both import and export.
• Demonstrable understanding of global logistics regulations, particularly EU/UK.
• Passionate about logistics, highly organised and with a strong eye for detail.
• Someone who cares about customer service, has client focus and can quickly find solutions to issues.
• Good understanding of the UK distribution networks and key stakeholders.
• Strong (inter-cultural) communicator and confident with client interaction.
• Self-driven, detail-focussed and task-orientated.
• Fully proficient in written and spoken English with relevant permissions to work in the UK.
• Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish or German would be a major benefit.

As an ever-friendly reminder: Researchers have found that men apply to roles when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Women and other underrepresented groups tend to apply only when they check every box. If you are interested, but don’t feel like you meet every single point on the job description, please still apply!

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.