Green Coffee Risk Manager

JA Coffee is looking for an experienced Green Coffee Risk Manager to support the management of our physical coffee positions, futures exposure, foreign exchange risk, and trading margins.
We are looking for someone with direct experience in the green coffee trade who understands how physical coffee contracts interact with the futures market and is comfortable monitoring and managing risk across a coffee trading book.
The right person will be familiar with the day-to-day realities of green coffee trading, including physical positions, futures, fixations, differentials, market exposure, and margin management, and will work closely with our sourcing, sales, finance, and management teams.
Responsibilities
Monitor and manage JA Coffee’s overall green coffee market exposure, including physical, futures, and FX positions
Maintain an accurate view of long and short positions, open purchase and sales contracts, inventory, and forward commitments
Manage and reconcile physical coffee and futures positions, including hedges, fixations, differentials, contract months, and rolls
Identify and address over-hedged, under-hedged, and unhedged exposure
Monitor mark-to-market, hedge performance, trading margins, and basis risk
Support the execution and reconciliation of futures and other hedging transactions in line with company risk policies
Monitor ICE Coffee C futures, FX markets, and relevant market developments that may impact coffee prices and margins
Conduct ongoing coffee market analysis, incorporating crop developments, weather, origin differentials, currencies, inventories, exports, logistics, and macroeconomic factors
Help build and maintain a centralized coffee risk and market intelligence platform bringing together positions, contracts, inventory, futures, FX, and key market data
Prepare clear daily and weekly risk, exposure, and market reports for management
Work closely with sourcing, sales, finance, and management to support purchasing, selling, pricing, and hedging decisions
Help develop and strengthen JA Coffee’s risk management framework, controls, limits, and reporting tools
Qualifications
4+ years of experience in green coffee trading, commodity risk, hedging, or a closely related role
Direct experience working with the physical green coffee market
Strong understanding of ICE Coffee C futures
Practical knowledge of long and short positions, differentials, fixations, basis risk, hedge coverage, and mark-to-market
Experience working with green coffee purchase and sales contracts
Strong analytical and reconciliation skills
Advanced Excel skills
Experience with FX exposure or currency hedging is an asset
Strong attention to detail and sound judgment
Comfortable working across sourcing, sales, finance, and management
English proficiency required, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Background
Experience with a green coffee exporter, importer, trading house, multinational coffee company, cooperative with an established trading operation, or commodity trading firm with direct coffee exposure.

Work arrangement
Yes