What are the responsibilities and job description for the Treasury and Trade Finance Analyst position at Engelhart?
About Us
Engelhart was founded in 2013 by BTG Pactual Group as a commodities trading company. Our business model is “asset light” and highly diversified – giving us the ability to adapt effectively and nimbly to changing market conditions. We have assembled successful multidisciplinary teams, leveraging advanced fundamental analysis with deep quantitative and weather research capabilities. Our activities are underpinned by strong risk management practices and by powerful technology and operational excellence. We have exceptional teams with diverse global backgrounds and decades of experience, and are driven by a highly collaborative culture, across products and competencies.
In 2024, Engelhart acquired Trailstone, a global energy trading and technology company. The acquisition provides us with new expertise, analytics and proprietary technology which is being used to provide risk management and optimisation services to help maximise the value of our clients’ renewable power. The acquisition also expanded Engelhart’s capabilities into physical natural gas across North America, a critical fuel to support the energy transition.
Our talented and experienced individuals work together according to its four company values: Performance, Agility, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Treasury professional to work within our finance team. This is a truly exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to leverage their experience to run, design, and improve an international commodity trader’s treasury operating model.
This role will can sit in either our Stamford office or Houston office and will report directly to the North American Head of Treasury. In this position, you can expect to work closely with both the local and international treasury teams, as well as the technology and middle office teams. Focus will be the ongoing operational flow for the area with concentration on cash and liquidity management and reporting
This will be a full-time role, owning the following responsibilities:
Skills
This successful candidate will be comfortable running day-to-day treasury operations, performing analytical work, and leading strategic projects. As such, we believe the following background, skills and experiences will best set someone up for success:
Engelhart was founded in 2013 by BTG Pactual Group as a commodities trading company. Our business model is “asset light” and highly diversified – giving us the ability to adapt effectively and nimbly to changing market conditions. We have assembled successful multidisciplinary teams, leveraging advanced fundamental analysis with deep quantitative and weather research capabilities. Our activities are underpinned by strong risk management practices and by powerful technology and operational excellence. We have exceptional teams with diverse global backgrounds and decades of experience, and are driven by a highly collaborative culture, across products and competencies.
In 2024, Engelhart acquired Trailstone, a global energy trading and technology company. The acquisition provides us with new expertise, analytics and proprietary technology which is being used to provide risk management and optimisation services to help maximise the value of our clients’ renewable power. The acquisition also expanded Engelhart’s capabilities into physical natural gas across North America, a critical fuel to support the energy transition.
Our talented and experienced individuals work together according to its four company values: Performance, Agility, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Treasury professional to work within our finance team. This is a truly exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to leverage their experience to run, design, and improve an international commodity trader’s treasury operating model.
This role will can sit in either our Stamford office or Houston office and will report directly to the North American Head of Treasury. In this position, you can expect to work closely with both the local and international treasury teams, as well as the technology and middle office teams. Focus will be the ongoing operational flow for the area with concentration on cash and liquidity management and reporting
This will be a full-time role, owning the following responsibilities:
- Working Capital Management: reporting new and existing transactions to processing and understanding funding, collateral and liquidity requirements, and identify optimization opportunities.
- Trade Finance Execution: understanding and processing letters of credit, bank guarantees, trade finance loans and other credit support instruments.
- Bank Facilities: supporting reporting and operational requirements across trade finance and credit facilities.
- Cash & Liquidity Management: supporting daily cash settlements, liquidity requirements, cash forecasting and regular treasury reporting.
- Treasury & Trade Finance Projects: supporting existing projects, in terms of testing, development and improving current structures.
Skills
This successful candidate will be comfortable running day-to-day treasury operations, performing analytical work, and leading strategic projects. As such, we believe the following background, skills and experiences will best set someone up for success:
- Up to 5 years of professional experience in treasury or trade finance-banking.
- Experience within a commodity trading business, ideally including US Gas & Power.
- Strong hands-on in treasury processes, and knowledge in trade Finance,
- Experience managing working capital, collateral and liquidity requirements arising from physical commodity activities.
- Strong analytical skills, experience working with large data sets and ability to execute projects geared towards improving systems and processes.
- Experience with treasury operational systems such as calypso and SAP.
- Competitive compensation and participation in Engelhart’s discretionary bonus plan.
- 20 days of annual holiday entitlement, excluding US public holidays (NYSE).
- Robust benefits package such as Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, 401(k) match, and supplemental benefits partially subsidized by the Company.
- Eligibility to receive external and internal training in accordance with our Training & Development Policy.