Trade Assistant

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Trade Assistant to work in a truly global environment to support Trade and Logistic operations and generate accurate and timely reports.

Volcafe Ltd is one of the worlds 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 worlds 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 in Bangalore,India.

Key Accountabilities

• Weekly sales reporting & Sales monitoring
• Creation and calculation of cost matrices
• IT Tasks (PowerBI)
• Month and cost checks
• Price calculations for offer list.
• Month and FV
• Fixations + forex conversations
• Substitution / position reporting
• Finance reporting (Sales/PnL/Margins vs. budget, preparing presentations, collecting data)
• Stock ageing report (preparing/commenting and discussing)
• Month end stock reconciliations

Skills and Experience

• Fully proficient in written and spoken English would be beneficial.
• Previous experience in trade operations, logistics or a similar role is preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and organization skills
• Excellent communication skills

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

Volcafe shares the values of our parent company, ED&F Man Commodities. Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions

Our Commitment

Volcafe shares the commitment of our parent company, ED&F Man Commodities. 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.