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## Done: Introduction about current role:
Current Job: I am a Risk Manager in Trafigura with primary job being hedging the risk exposure of the trades using financial derivatives. Trafigura does Physical Trading of cargoes (ranging from 6 metric ton trucks to 300,000 metric ton ships) across multi-continent trading routes, with Cargo value run into millions but with **razor thin margins** which are less than 1%. 
I have worked across a range of products (Diesel, Fuel Oil, Crude Oil) and business geographies (Europe, UK, Asia, Russia, West Africa, US west coast and US Gulf Coast). I have developed following skills by working in such a high stakes environment 
- Attention to detail
- Business Knowledge
- Strategic Thinking 
- Communication + Collaboration + Rapport

## Done: Insights and Analysis
1. Doing process improvements & making execution more efficient with business insights
    - Process improvement isn't possible without deep understanding of the business and process. A small improvement has high impact on final end goal. 
    - Automated a critical manual task required to hedge risk exposure. Even though small, the impact of error was from 100k$ to upwards of 5 mill USD. This automation drastically reduced the risk of human errors, saved time taken for calculation and made it easy for new joiners to execute hedge orders without supervision.
    - Created a standard operating process for Audit and Compliance that is used firm wide for reporting. 
    - 40+ people using it for now. I plan to expand it's functionality. Noticed it while teaching new mentors. Noticed why the mistakes. 
2. Noticing lack of big movement as anomoly and working with commercial team to uncover a price war going on between two companies leading to unusual price movement. This insight was used by commercial team to leverage this market condition to turn a big profit.  
3. Extensive work on UAT of a multi year software development project called Titan
    - Having worked on both sides of the fence of being a software engineer as well as a business user, makes me better BA & bridge between Developers & Users during UAT
    - Raised 27 P0 issues, highest number amongst 200 people doing UAT
    - working as a subject matter expert to transition the knowledge of product to rest of the team.
    - Attention to detail: Identified a P0 involving small length text box. Pushed back by dev team because of seemingly minor UI issue. However impact on trading was upwards of 1 million dollars due to potential incorrect valuation from lack of readability. 
4. Did Data preparation and Visualization of huge SAP based dataset with Tableau. Used SQL to find profit margins, impact of FX movement on profitability, demand planning to create heat maps with drill down capabilities. System used by senior management for reporting and strategy analysis
5. Adaptable & Quick Learner. Started as a software engineer and then worked my way through to being a price and demand analyst in lighting business and then as a risk manager in oil trading company. Even within Oil trading moved across various products (Crude Oil, Diesel, Fuel Oil) and across various geographies of business (Eurasia, Europe, UK). All these transitions required adaptability, learning something from scratch and most importantly, unlearning the old ways.

## Communication and Collaboration
- Part of Trafigura Mumbai from nascent stage to its growth for the past 5 years in an extremely high stakes and competitive environment by leveraging my communication skills. Deal values are generally over 1 million$ at a minimum. Without flawless communication across departments to correctly report the risk profile, the trading strategies would be based on the wrong insight, thus potentially causing not just monetary loss, but reputation loss, loss of long term business and overall loss of profitability in an extremely thin profit margin industry.
- Owing to the nature of business, the departments are based out of major port cities across the world. So on a day to day basis there's a need to interact with people from all over the world (Ghana, Mongolia, Estonia etc). Based on my observations of dealing with a diversity of such magnitude, learning and development dept created a new module for global communication competency (insert link)
