ASSISTANT MARKET RESEARCH ANALYST

at  IFCHOR GALBRAITHS SINGAPORE PTE LTD

IFCHOR GALBRAITHS is a globally recognised, international shipbroker with 20 offices and over 300 employees globally.
We pride ourselves in delivering a high quality, service minded approach, through our extensive network of proactive team of brokers in strategic locations worldwide.
As part of our expansion, we are currently looking for a young professional intern to join and contribute to the continued development of our highly regarded research team and the further success of a world-leading shipbroking house on a professional internship.
The successful candidate will be based at our office in Singapore. Duration of Internship will be around 6 months.

PROFILE - QUALIFICATIONS AND CAPABILITIES:

• Currently pursuing a degree in Engineering or Economics or Shipping-related courses
• Strong experience in numerical/data analysis
• High MS Excel proficiency, soft programming (e.g. VBA & SQL, shell scripting) and databases skills (e.g. Access or mySQL)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with various internal and external stakeholders
• Enjoy working in a small and demanding environment and able to perform under pressure
• Diligent, result oriented, independent and self-motivated, highly reliable and readiness to take on responsibility
• Fluent in written and spoken English. Other languages a plus
  Please submit your application via email to zilla.osman@ifchorgalbraiths.com
  Please note that we will only respond to applicants who correspond to the profile

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The role will be part of our in-house market research arm that provides freight market analysis and actionable intelligence to the other business units (ship broking, S&P and finance) and their clients.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Play an active role in further developing and automating routines, procedures used for processing various type of market-related data
• Develop recognized expertise in specific commodity (minor bulks, specifically) and shipping markets
• Conduct fact-based research and analysis to support the production of actionable intelligence
• Keep track of the latest market developments, develop price views and provide related communication and recommendations to commercial teams
• Assist with publication of research commentaries and other studies and presentations
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned