James Bradford

Cost mitigation through excellence in CTRM, Financial Strategy, and Enterprise Risk Management.
Summary
James Bradford is a seasoned strategic professional with a strong background in commodity trading, risk management, and financial forecasting.
He possesses expertise in commodity risk management, budgeting, forecasting, FP&A, financial modeling, valuation, accounting, and pricing.
His track record includes successful collaboration with cross-functional teams in developing organizational strategies and presenting to executive leadership for strategic buy-in.
James Bradford is known for his innovative approach in pioneering industry-leading risk-management capabilities, including establishing industry-first counterparty relationships.
His experience extends to commodities hedging, speculative trading, and strategy management.
He is proficient in Valuation methods such as DCF, APV, Multiples, NPV, IRR, and Monte Carlo, as well as financial modeling, project management, forecasting, budgeting, gap analysis, market analysis, and risk management.
James has a strong background in profitable derivatives trading and statistical modeling using tools like Python, SAS JMP, Minitab, Palisade @Risk, and Palisade Decision Tree.
Additionally, he has coding experience in Python and is familiar with various financial software like Hyperion, Reval, Bloomberg, Eikon, Endur, MSCI Barra, ProphetX, Futuresource, Morningstar, LIM, Visual Basic, and SAP Business Objects.
James Bradford holds a Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance from Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, an MBA in Finance from Emory University's Goizueta Business School, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business.
His professional experience includes roles such as Director of Commodity Risk Management at ARCOP, Inc., Senior Commodity Risk Manager (Agriculture and Metals) at Coca-Cola Bottlers' Sales and Services, Manager of Corporate Development Strategy and Analytics at WestRock Company, Manager of Containerboard Pricing Optimization at WestRock Company, Proprietary Trader (Coal) at GenOn, and Financial Analyst (Commercial Planning) at GenOn.