Finance & Trade Manager job at Comcof Group

Role mission

Protect Comcof's financial position and support profitable, well-structured coffee transactions through disciplined financial management, trade-finance coordination, commercial analysis, and strong controls.

About Comcof Group

Comcof Group is a coffee company focused on building long-term capabilities across sourcing, trade, market access, finance coordination, quality, processing, and value addition. We are early-stage by design and disciplined by conviction: we believe respected coffee companies are built through reliable systems, consistent quality, and professional execution. Learn more about the company.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare financial forecasts, budgets, cash-flow plans, and management reports.
• Analyse the profitability and cash requirements of coffee transactions.
• Support product pricing and transaction modelling.
• Coordinate with banks and financial institutions on trade-finance facilities.
• Prepare and follow up financial information required for financing applications.
• Monitor funding utilisation, transaction costs, margins, repayments, and financial obligations.
• Support the review of contracts from a financial and commercial perspective.
• Track receivables, payables, supplier commitments, buyer payments, and operational costs.
• Support foreign-exchange and price-risk monitoring.
• Establish internal controls, approval processes, and financial documentation standards.
• Coordinate with accountants, auditors, tax advisers, banks, and other service providers.
• Prepare periodic financial and commercial performance reports.
• Maintain accurate and confidential financial records.
• Help management identify and manage financial risks.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant finance, accounting, banking, trade-finance, treasury, commodities, audit, or commercial-analysis experience.
• Strong Excel and financial-modelling skills.
• Strong understanding of cash flow, margins, costs, receivables, payables, and financial reporting.
• High integrity, confidentiality, and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Preferred qualifications

• CPA, ACCA, CFA coursework, or another relevant professional qualification is advantageous.
• Experience in coffee, commodities, exports, trade finance, banking, foreign exchange, or structured transactions is highly desirable.

Skills and attributes

• Analytical and commercially minded.
• Calm, trustworthy, and detail-oriented.
• Disciplined, with sound professional judgement.
• Able to challenge assumptions respectfully.
• Able to communicate financial information clearly.

What success looks like

• Management has reliable visibility into cash, costs, margins, and obligations.
• Transactions are assessed before commitments are made.
• Financing documentation is prepared and followed up professionally.
• Financial risks are identified early.
• Controls and approvals improve.
• Reports are timely and accurate.
• Comcof protects capital while supporting growth.

What you will gain

You will build the financial architecture of a trading company from the ground up: trade-finance relationships, transaction models, controls, and reporting, with direct access to leadership and to the commercial logic of every deal.

• Prepare financial forecasts, budgets, cash-flow plans, and management reports.
• Analyse the profitability and cash requirements of coffee transactions.
• Support product pricing and transaction modelling.
• Coordinate with banks and financial institutions on trade-finance facilities.
• Prepare and follow up financial information required for financing applications.
• Monitor funding utilisation, transaction costs, margins, repayments, and financial obligations.
• Support the review of contracts from a financial and commercial perspective.
• Track receivables, payables, supplier commitments, buyer payments, and operational costs.
• Support foreign-exchange and price-risk monitoring.
• Establish internal controls, approval processes, and financial documentation standards.
• Coordinate with accountants, auditors, tax advisers, banks, and other service providers.
• Prepare periodic financial and commercial performance reports.
• Maintain accurate and confidential financial records.
• Help management identify and manage financial risks.

• Strong Excel and financial-modelling skills.
• Strong understanding of cash flow, margins, costs, receivables, payables, and financial reporting.
• High integrity, confidentiality, and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Analytical and commercially minded.
• Calm, trustworthy, and detail-oriented.
• Disciplined, with sound professional judgement.
• Able to challenge assumptions respectfully.
• Able to communicate financial information clearly.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of relevant finance, accounting, banking, trade-finance, treasury, commodities, audit, or commercial-analysis experience.
• CPA, ACCA, CFA coursework, or another relevant professional qualification is advantageous.
• Experience in coffee, commodities, exports, trade finance, banking, foreign exchange, or structured transactions is highly desirable.