Aramco Trading was established as Saudi Aramco’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 diversified workforce, and a more sophisticated and integrated global business model.
Today, the company is recognized globally as 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:
ATS Market Analytics team directly supports the trading desk in the Front office. Provide analytical and pricing decision support to Traders and Trading Managers. Support Business Development by providing analytical support to specific BD projects. Provide market research support to senior management.
Key Accountabilities:
- Support a Trading Desk (~60%)
- Develop and Own the assigned Product Detailed Supply and Demand balances for up to 6 months ahead, and become the SME for the balances – understanding the key drivers for changes
- Provide views on forward product cracks, refining margins, demand outlook, and eventually trading insights for assigned product
- Develop and Own arbitrage and cargo economic models
- Identify opportunities and threats to the product group
- Perform Ship Tracking Identify opportunities and threats to the business
- Develop and update SD, Refining, Flow models, as needed (~25%)
- Support Senior Management and Business Development for general market research on ad hoc basis (~15%) - Provide analytical support to BD projects, as assigned by Global Head of Market Analytics
- Develop country/ customer profiles
Requirements:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics or a related discipline
- At least 6 years’ experience in a marketing or trading analyst role (in the Front Office) supporting sulphur & fertilizers
- Familiarity with refinery, petchem configurations and product specifications
- Exposure to Refinery LP /optimization program is a plus
- Excellent 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 strongly preferred
- Experience with data/ dashboard visualization software is a plus
- Ability to conduct cost-benefit analysis and develop business case
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 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 towards team goals.
- Comfortable in fast-moving, time-critical and stressful environment - responds constructively to challenges and mindful under pressure.
- Attentive to detail - thorough in completing work tasks, quality reviews and uses time effectively.
- Strong commercial acumen and proven negotiation skills - understands commercial aspects and extract value through execution or negotiation.
- Takes initiative and able to work independently - requires minimal supervision and forward thinking to needs of customers and organization.
- Ethical and honest, high integrity and trustworthy.
Application:
Do you have what it takes? If you are keen to grow your career with a leading energy company, this is the role for you. Interested applicants please submit full resume with email and contact details to ATS-HR@aramcotrading.sg
We regret to inform you that only selected candidates will be notified.