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Ben Williams, III

Kansas City,MO

Summary

Global, professional with over 7 years’ experience in commodity trading industry. Global reach, working extensively with Agricultural, energy, financial, FX and OTC products across over 100 countries. Specialist in daily P&L’s, VaR, logistics, market risk and credit risk reporting.
Extensive experience working as, or with, a variety of key roles from Execution, to Accounting, to Trading, and finally Market risk and Upper management. Lead analyst on several projects to automate trade and price capture from dozens of different sources to streamline the creation of daily position reports and P&L’s. The successful roll-out of many of these projects result in employees gaining significant time for more value-added activities.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Settlement Associate

Louis Dreyfus Company
10.2016 - 03.2018
  • Controlled inventory at our US river terminals and Corn/Soybean crushing plants.

Kept track of all shipments in and out of our river terminals and crushing plants. Calculated inventory based on real measurements at the facilities as well as calculating the implied or expected inventory based off contract execution.

For our processing plants i also tracked the yields and results of daily crushing activities and input them into our computer systems.


  • Contract life-cycle management

Write, amend, settle and trouble-shoot contracts for Grains and Oilseeds for US origination and export programs.


  • Daily funding requests and bank wires

After receiving bills of lading via mail, I would settle the Barge contracts, calculate exact payment amounts, gather management signatures, and wire millions of dollars to our customers.

Financial Analyst

Louis Dreyfus Company
03.2018 - 08.2021
  • Produced daily position reports by hand
  • Produced daily P&L reports
  • Month-end closing contract reconciliation

Market Risk Analyst

Louis Dreyfus Company
08.2021 - 11.2022
  • Automated North American Grains and Oilseeds platform Daily Position Reports
  • Automated capture and delivery of Futures close prices

Middle Office Analyst

Louis Dreyfus Company
11.2022 - Current
  • Leading analyst on project to Automate the daily position and price reports for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay Grains and Oilseeds platforms.

Education

Master of Science - Finance And Economics

West Texas A&M University
Canyon, TX
05.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Colorado At Boulder
Boulder, CO
05.2016

Skills

  • P&L, VaR & Position reporting
  • Price and Trade capture automation
  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • FX, futures, options trading support
  • Regulatory & Compliance awareness

Timeline

Middle Office Analyst

Louis Dreyfus Company
11.2022 - Current

Market Risk Analyst

Louis Dreyfus Company
08.2021 - 11.2022

Financial Analyst

Louis Dreyfus Company
03.2018 - 08.2021

Settlement Associate

Louis Dreyfus Company
10.2016 - 03.2018

Master of Science - Finance And Economics

West Texas A&M University

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Colorado At Boulder
Ben Williams, III