Main Purpose:
The Counterparty Documentation Specialist plays a crucial role in managing legal and counterparty risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and facilitating smooth and efficient trading operations within the commodities trading company.
This is a fixed term contract position with a minimum duration of 7 months.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
- 3-5 years experience in ISDA and master agreement negotiation for financial and commodity derivative trading
- Legal background, ideally English law
- Self-starter who is detail-oriented, hard-working, flexible and able to build relationships across departments
- Confident and effective communicator who is able to relay legal concepts to the business;
- Able to work under pressure to tight deadlines, rigorous with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency and can prioritize various requests simultaneously
- Able to work independently
- Excel and Word/Outlook competent
- Excellent English verbal and written communication
Key Responsibilities
- Review, negotiate and advise on various master agreements such as ISDAs, EFETS, BFOEs for commodity lines ranging from gas & power to carbon and renewables
- Review and advise on parent company guarantees
- Co-ordinate facilitate, identify and resolve internal / external blockages
- Advise all areas of the business on legal concepts in the master agreements as and when required
- Follow industry developments
- Manage contract management system, maintain templates for all agreement types
- Maintain global agreements tracker
- Participate in ad-hoc projects and systems development
Key Relationships and Department Overview:
Key Relationships
- Credit Management team
- Legal department
- Compliance department
- Traders
Department
Credit
Reporting Structure
Reporting directly to the Head of Credit for Shipping and TFG Marine
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.