Market Analyst

TheCompany:

Aramco Trading was established as SaudiAramco's trading arm in 2011 under the approval of Saudi Aramco's Board of Directors. It established its headquarters in Al-Midra Tower in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and have 4 other global offices in London, Singapore, Fujairah and America. With five offices currently operating worldwide, Aramco Trading has broader access to markets, a wider client base, a more talented and diversifiedworkforce, and a more sophisticated and integrated global business model.

Today, the company is recognized globallyas a critical trading partner for refiners, shipping companies, financial institutions, end-users, and other product-trading companies. The company trades across the barrel including Crude, Middle distillates, Light distillates, bulk petrochemicals, polyolefin and recently clean energy like LNG, Emission and Biofuels.

Aramco Trading Singapore (ATS) is the largest subsidiary out of the kingdom and is actively trading within the region and globally across all products since 2018.

The Function:
The ATS Market analyst directly supports the respective trading desk(s) in the Front office, as well as other analysts within the Analytics team. He/She provides analytical and pricing decision support to Analysts, Traders and Trading Managers. He/She will also deliver market research reports to Senior Management and Business Development.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and ownthe assigned Product Supply and Demand (SnD) balances for up to 12 months ahead, and become the expert with an understanding of the key drivers for the projection (70%)

o Update the SnD regularly with the latest national statistics, project forward demand and import/export based on latest arbitrage flows/refining economics/seasonality

o Perform vessel tracking for the assigned product flow

o Collaborate with other analysts on product yield and refinery run forecast

o Identify opportunities and threats to the product group

• Provide views onforward product cracks, spreads, EW, refining margins and trading insights for the assigned product (15%)

• Support Senior Management and Business Development for market research (15%)

o Provide analytical supportfor management reports as assigned by Head of Analytics

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance,Economics or a related discipline

• 1 - 3 years experience in a marketing or trading analyst rolesupporting energy trading desks experience with a trading desk/companypreferred
• Well-versed with refinery, petchem configurations and product specifications
• Proven analytical skills to collect, process, and evaluate large amount of data
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel (including VBA) to analyse data effectively
• Quantitative skills (statistical forecasting) and knowledge of other programming languages (such as SQL, Phyton, and R) is preferred
• Experience with data / dashboard visualization software is a plus
• Ability to work in fast-moving time-critical and stressful environment - responds constructively to challenges and handles pressure positively
• Ability to combine industry knowledge with analysis of internal and external data to present actionable insights, opportunities and threats for the business
• Collaborative and team oriented - works well in and across teams, prioritizes team performance and influences others positively towards team goals
• Attentive to detail - thorough in completing work tasks, quality reviews and uses time effectively
• Takes initiative and able to work independently - requires minimal supervision and forward thinking to needs of customers and organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ethical and honest,high integrity and trustworthy.