Promoted to oversee export execution and contract administration while maintaining previous risk and compliance responsibilities for an agribusiness and food ingredient company dedicated to improving the global food supply chain.• Manage position reporting, internal controls, and management reporting for the company and its joint ventures to align with parent company expectations; supervise the Export Execution Analyst and lead an indirect report Trading Positions Analyst.• Negotiate, set-up, open, and maintain outside brokerage accounts to enable Bunge and its joint ventures to trade commodities.• Helped create a database and streamlined reporting to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act.• Assist in gathering information and providing a response to any inquiries or audits from boards of trade.• Coordinate external audits with state and federal agencies, and handle internal audits with internal auditors and CPAs. • Assist legal department with researching regulations and statutes to support pending litigation, licensing, or arbitration.• Co-founded in 2016 and co-lead the Bunge North America, Inc. (BNA) African-American Employee Resource Group; helped leverage and create partnership with National Black Growers Council (NBGC) and led Bunge as the first grain company to become a Gold Level Sustaining Member; appointed as Bunge’s liaison to the NBGC Executive Board; manage relationship with Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS).• Selected as member of the newly-created Diversity and Inclusion Council of BNA in 2015; helped change recruiting strategies to improve overall diversity in the company; educate executives and middle managers on diversity awareness & opportunities.

Promoted to support business and administrative units by ensuring compliance with various state and federal agencies.• Consult with business units regarding regulatory issues and help resolve problems that may arise.• Ensure that over 70 Bunge facilities are appropriately licensed with state and federal agencies including USDA, FDA, and individual state departments of agriculture, and 15 facilities are appropriately registered to sell commercial feed in 48 states.• Report the company daily risk position to parent company and Commodities Futures Trading Commission.• Work with business units within the company and subsidiaries to ensure compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements; field and respond to questions regarding regulatory concerns and help resolve any issues.• Establish and maintain accounts and memberships with commodity exchanges and derivative brokers in the U.S. and Canada.• Created and established policies and procedures for federal and state agencies' audits and for opening new derivative (futures and options) broker accounts.• Initiated and sponsored successful Kaizen events to revise and streamline company practices; by invitation, participated in two additional improvement events; streamlined derivative management.• Served as guest auditor to Internal Audit Department's review of company's risk management.• Support the purchase or sale of assets by ensuring they are appropriately licensed at state and federal agencies.• Collaborate with business units, Legal, Accounting and Management to create new or revised company policies and procedures.

Supported traders and merchandisers in placing futures trades and producing daily position and P&L for various trade desks.• Placed up to 150 commodity futures trades daily with a value of several million dollars with Chicago Board of Trade, Kansas City Board of Trade, Minneapolis Grain Exchange, and others for corn, soybeans, wheat, soybean meal, and soybean oil.• Verified and reconciled daily profit and loss accounts for individual traders, business units, subsidiaries and companies.