Governance and Controls Analyst

About the role

Join our Commodity Markets and Finance Division (CMF) as an Analyst within the Deal and Logistics Management (DLM) team in Houston, where you will work alongside colleagues across the business to support the management and oversight of commodity finance transactions. We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with colleagues across the global business and central service groups to monitor and analyze risks associated with commodity finance transactions across a diverse portfolio of energy, agriculture and resources loans and structured physical transactions
• Perform assurance reviews across a variety of Deal and Logistics Management operating controls, helping to ensure that key risks are appropriately identified, monitored and managed
• Investigate and verify borrowing base valuations and calculations by drawing on a wide range of data sources, including independent third-party information, to support findings and conclusions
• Perform integrity controls and compliance checks against applicable credit agreements
• Track cash conversions of invoicing and confirm these against external statements
• Reconcile reported inventory against warehouse receipts and perform additional detailed controls to confirm the existence and validity of collateral
• Prepare monthly reporting to communicate validation outcomes
• Partner with relationship teams to develop appropriate validation processes for new credit transactions
• Support the systematic tracking and reporting of financing facility covenants
• Coordinate the scheduling and review of collateral and borrowing base audits, helping to ensure that findings are appropriately assessed and incorporated into ongoing monitoring and control activities
• Support the continued transition toward greater automation, helping to move activities away from manual data extraction and processing and toward analytical review, exception management and risk-based decision-making, while ensuring appropriate validation, controls and human oversight remain in place

Requirements

• Major in engineering, computer science, finance, economics, accounting, or other quantitative disciplines
• 0–2 years of Commercial or Corporate banking experience with understanding of banking, finance/accounting, and risk-related issues
• Data collection and management experience, with coding/programming and analysis skills; hands-on exposure to AI agents and concrete AI-driven projects is a plus
• Effective writing and analytical skills
• Ability to multi-task, is organized, and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Experience in the energy and/or commodities sector is a plus

Benefits

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave
• 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Benefits and initiatives to support physical, mental and financial wellbeing such as medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account and dependent day care savings account; life insurance, disability, and other insurance plans; 401(k) and short/long term disability
• Access to Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Recognition and service awards
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment