Finance & Trade Manager

Role Mission

Protect Comcof's financial position and support profitable, well-structured coffee transactions through disciplined financial management, trade-finance coordination, commercial analysis, and strong controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare financial forecasts, budgets, cash-flow plans, and management reports
• Analyse the profitability and cash requirements of coffee transactions
• Support product pricing and transaction modelling
• Coordinate with banks and financial institutions on trade-finance facilities
• Prepare and follow up financial information required for financing applications
• Monitor funding utilisation, transaction costs, margins, repayments, and financial obligations
• Support the review of contracts from a financial and commercial perspective
• Track receivables, payables, supplier commitments, buyer payments, and operational costs
• Support foreign-exchange and price-risk monitoring
• Establish internal controls, approval processes, and financial documentation standards
• Coordinate with accountants, auditors, tax advisers, banks, and other service providers

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline
• At least 3 years of relevant finance, accounting, banking, trade-finance, treasury, commodities, audit, or commercial-analysis experience
• Strong Excel and financial-modelling skills
• Strong understanding of cash flow, margins, costs, receivables, payables, and financial reporting
• High integrity, confidentiality, and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

CPA, ACCA, CFA coursework, or another relevant professional qualification is advantageous. Experience in coffee, commodities, exports, trade finance, banking, foreign exchange, or structured transactions is highly desirable.

What You Will Gain

You will build the financial architecture of a trading company from the ground up: trade-finance relationships, transaction models, controls, and reporting, with direct access to leadership and the commercial logic of every deal.