Middle Office Analyst

**Location**: Barcelona

**City**: Sant Just Desvern

**State**: Barcelona (ES-B)

**Country**: Spain (ES)

**Requisition Number**: 36894

**BUNGE** has an exciting opportunity available for a **Middle Office Analyst**. In this role, you will be _provide on the daily basis support to the Commercial team on the operational side including financial and position back up, translation of the trading activities into a daily position and PL report. Serve as a central point of contact for trading operation tasks supporting trade flow verifications and accuracy of each transaction as well as ensure consistency and completeness of the data flow across all other involved departments and systems. Additionally drive for automation and efficiency improvements to the current reporting processes and tools._
- “Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world - creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.”_
- Note:_ you are ideally located in Barcelona to obtain this job._

**Some responsibilities of the Middle Office Analyst are**:
**Trade Administration / Trade Support (**_Daily Positions & P&L_**)**
- Producing accurate and reliable daily VC Commodity Positions & PL report:

- Cash/flat activities/trades - new trades updated/reconciled with commercial team.
- Freight position (+MTM) - reconciled against freight department/commercial team.
- Co-ordinate with trading/execution/logistic teams on vessel execution - and reflect impacts in Daily PL.
- Pricing monitoring/confirmation to contracts/execution/traders including tracking changes for accuracy across all systems.
- Reconcile and publish the Daily Position & PL.
- Send trade slip to contract admin in case I/Co sales out of Geneva.
- Interoffice futures transfers in case of I/Co sales out of Geneva.
- Consolidate, transform and analyze data from multiple sources to meet reporting requirements.
- Prepare and explain daily P&L changes, including analysis on the main drives of the daily result.
- Provide information, assistance and analysis to the commercial team.
- Optimize Excel-based reports to reduce rote tasks, minimize human error and improve production speed.
- Ad hoc reports & projects and other duties as requested.

**Pre-Load Execution**
- Provide, monitor and check with traders/operations/contracts consistency of any operations/ contractual changes (cross checking impact).

**Extra Costs / Bad Debt**
- Review accruals reports, extra costs and Bad Debts reports.
- Follow up and align with commercial owners and finance departments to understand the drivers/impacts of the financial PL / reconciliation.

**Closing the books**
- Collect, review and confirm month end inputs required for the closing: prices, freight rates, base locations, volumes etc.
- Reconciliation of monthly results with Accounting (MTM, prices, execution, extra costs etc).
- Liase across functions to identify and resolve gaps during month end closing process.

**Results analysis**
- Margin analysis - identify main buckets of the margin structure/drivers:

- Understand and explain drivers of structural component of the margin.
- Understand and explain trading component of the margin.

**We are looking for different skills / experience**:

- University degree in accounting, finance, economics or related field level.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in accounting, finance or control preferably in the commodity trading industry.
- Good knowledge of SAP.
- Fluent English - other language an asset.
- High proficient Excel skills.
- Ability to deal with complex problems involving non-standardized situations.

Strong analytical skills and business acumen - good understanding of commodity trading and mark to market is a plus.
- Ability to work in a team/independently and to prioritize and handle multiple tasks.
- Meticulous attention to details.
- Strong interpersonal skills.

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow - solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers.#LI-AA3

**We Are Bunge**

Bunge is a global agribusiness with one mission - we connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. We have unmatched global scale and deeply rooted relationships which allow us to bring innovative ingredients and knowledge to some of the world’s biggest brands - many of which are likely in your home right now.

We know that to achieve our mission and deliver the best results to our customers, each other and the world we need to work _together_ - so we hire talented people who are **passionate**