Staff Accountant Commodity Trading

Job Description

Job Description

Salary:

About the Role

We are a global commodity trading firm looking for an early-career accountant to grow into a full-fledged commodity trading accountant. You will start with the fundamentals invoice posting, cash application, expense processing and progressively take ownership of month-end close deliverables spanning corporate accounting, trade accounting, and financial reporting under IFRS.
This is a build-the-whole-toolkit role. Within your first year, you will touch nearly every part of the close: trade accruals, inventory valuation, mark-to-market on physical forwards and hedges, broker statement reconciliations, intercompany, and the group reporting package. You will be mentored directly by the regional controller, and we invest heavily in automation you will be encouraged to improve and automate the processes you inherit, not just run them.

What You'll Do

Transactional Accounting (from day one)

• Post AP invoices and support vendor payment processing in Microsoft Dynamics
• Post cash receipts and perform cash application against open receivables
• Review and process employee expense reports in Expensify, including receipt verification, coding checks, and booking approved reports to the GL

Month-End Close (progressive ownership)

• Prepare and post recurring journal entries: accruals and reversals, prepaids and amortization, leases, fixed asset depreciation, payroll allocations
• Reconcile cash and bank loan balances to bank statements and confirmations
• Support trade accruals for open costs at month-end using ETRM system data (Symphony and RightAngle)
• Assist with month-end inventory valuation, including physical inventory reconciliations to terminal statements and weighted-average cost calculations
• Support mark-to-market entries on physical forward contracts and hedge positions under IFRS 9
• Reconcile realized and unrealized hedge P&L between ETRM data and broker/clearinghouse statements
• Assist with intercompany reconciliations and confirmations across global affiliates
• Perform AR/AP aging reviews, investigate past-due balances, and prepare reclass entries for unapplied cash

Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Support trial balance reconciliations, tying account balances to supporting documentation
• Assist in preparing the monthly group reporting package submitted to global consolidation (IFRS)
• Prepare monthly SG&A analysis, investigating variances and flagging miscoded or duplicated items
• Support system-to-GL reconciliations between the ETRMs and Dynamics

Automation & Process Improvement

• Identify manual steps in the close and help automate them we actively use Excel scripting, AI tools, and system reports to shorten the close, and expect you to contribute

What We're Looking For

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 02 years of experience; public accounting (Big Four or similar) background preferred, but strong new graduates are encouraged to apply
• Very strong Excel skills: pivot tables, lookups (INDEX/MATCH, XLOOKUP), and comfort handling large data extracts; macros/vba knowledge is a plus
• Exposure to AI tools and genuine interest in using them to work faster and more effectively
• Detail orientation and a reconciliation mindset you want the numbers to tie, and you dig in when they don't
• Clear written communication; comfortable documenting processes and flagging issues to reviewers

Preferred (not required)

• Coding or scripting experience (Python, VBA, Power Query, or similar) a significant plus given our automation focus
• Working knowledge of Spanish
• Familiarity with IFRS
• CPA candidacy or intent to pursue licensure
• Exposure to ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics) or ETRM systems (Symphony, RightAngle, or similar)

Systems You'll Use

Microsoft Dynamics (GL/ERP) Symphony and RightAngle (ETRM) Expensify (expense reporting) Excel and Power BI AI-assisted workflow tools

Why This Role

Rare early-career exposure to the full trading accounting cycle physical inventory, derivatives, MTM, hedge accounting normally reserved for more senior staff
Direct mentorship from the Regional Financial Controller with a defined path to owning full close cycles
Automation-first culture: you will build tools, not just run checklists
Global firm with cross-border exposure to intercompany, consolidation, and multi-entity reporting