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CHS Inc. · 3 days ago

Senior Director, Trading Compliance

Inver Grove Heights, MN

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. The Senior Director will oversee, monitor and administer the compliance elements of CHS’s trading strategy and ensure collaboration across various offices to manage risks from trading activities.

AgricultureFarmingNutrition

Hiring Manager

Jackie Martin

Responsibilities

Leading and developing a high-performing and engaged team across all Trading Compliance program areas for commodities, including new product and geographic expansion, surveilling of traders and activities and related areas such as Credit Compliance

Developing and maintaining strong relationships with key strategic stakeholders / leaders globally and serving as a critical business partner to ensure all trading activities and associated compliance and other key risks are identified, understood, and appropriately managed across the company for current and new products and markets

Developing and setting strategic direction for development, maturity and maintenance of the trading compliance and new product risk programs (including IT strategy for compliance) while overseeing daily tactical and operational support including surveillance of trading activity and investigation protocols

Consulting on and participating in corporate projects such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures as well as development of new or existing trading related system platforms to ensure trading compliance issues are identified and addressed

Leveraging a thorough understanding of trading compliance laws, regulations, market practices, internal processes and procedures to manage, approve and make decisions about CHS’s trading compliance programs, their operation and effectiveness

Overseeing the monitoring of relevant regulatory and market developments and internal trading activity, including developing and maturing appropriate governance, escalation and approval processes for new trading activities / structures and markets, as well as adherence to all relevant regulatory limits

Interacting directly with government agencies (such as the CFTC), exchanges (such as the CME) and self–regulatory organizations (such as the NFA) and leading the response to regulatory inquiries, audits, examinations and investigations

Presenting on Trading Compliance and New Product Risk issues and status to the Strategic Leadership Team and Board Risk Committee and CHS Board of Directors, serve on regulated entity risk committee and act as a compliance advisor to its Board of Managers

Empowering CHS to compete with integrity and confidence in the highly complex and regulated global marketplace CHS encounters every day

Qualification

Commodity risk managementTrading complianceCompliance laws knowledgeFinancial information systemsPolicy developmentTrainingSystem designImplementationWorking relationshipsChange managementInternational regulatory knowledgeCompliance/ethics certificationTradeStructured FinanceCredit compliance programsLeadership experienceCommunications

Required

Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, economics or business, or related area of study

10+ years of leadership experience in commodity risk management in one or more of the following areas: Commodity trading, Commodity execution, Commodity risk management, Trading compliance

Thorough understanding of physical and financial agricultural and/or energy commodity markets and products, including futures, options and swaps

Thorough knowledge of compliance laws, rules and regulations, such as CFTC, NFA, CME, etc., as well as of emerging regulations related to commodity trading activities

Significant experience working with complex financial information systems and controls in a diverse and complex business environment

Substantive experience in the following areas: Compliance Program administration, Training and communications, Policy development, System design and implementation