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Financial Portfolio Manager

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Job ID 330699 Date posted 08/03/2026 Location : São Paulo, Brazil | London, United Kingdom | Mexico City, Mexico | Minneapolis, Minnesota Category  TRADING Job Status  Salaried Full Time

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Financial Portfolio Manager will drive profit generation through the financial trading group’s proprietary trading activities with a primary focus on Brazil and/or Mexican Markets. In this role, you will actively trade and invest in the assigned markets including foreign exchange, interest rates, and sovereign credit and ensure desk profitability and pursue alpha generation through proprietary positioning.

Key Accountabilities

  • Generate profits by trading the assigned instruments including foreign exchange, local rates, or sovereign credit, with primary focus Brazil and/or Mexico.
  • Book and accurately reflect positions and strategies traded.
  • Execute all desk trades across different asset classes to ensure minimum slippage and execution errors and independently handle counterparty interactions and resolve transactional issues with them.
  • Provide trade ideas and research information to other team members as well as identify new trading strategies that complement the portfolio and augment the desk profit and loss.
  • Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify opportunities and problems.
  • Provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Confirmed financial trading track record with consistent high risk return results in the afore mentioned markets
  • Generating trading profits in foreign exchange rates, local rates, sovereign credit markets and similar instruments.
  • Other minimum qualifications may apply

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