Senior Crude Oil Analyst

at  Cargill

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s agricultural supply chain business. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver essential products.
Location
Open to European time zone Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Crude Oil Analyst will conduct highly complex trading analytics efforts. In this role, you will provide analysis of markets and other economic considerations, development and deployment of highly complex models, tools and processes to influence the team to make trading and risk management decisions. Key Accountabilities
Lead the development, enhancement and execution of complex models and processes to forecast supply, demand and refinery margin drivers in context of prices, with focus on crude oil
Regularly track refinery news and petroleum market developments to provide timely input to models.
Present weekly changes to fundamentals in a systematic and comprehensive way in addition to daily communication with traders
Benchmark model outputs to external views systematically to identify disconnects in market expectations vs internal analysis.
Provide timely, accurate and actionable insights to trading team and other key stakeholders to drive trading and other business decisions.
Develop, coordinate and support initiatives for technology and data for trading data analytics in conjunction with head of analytics.
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum 5 years of crude oil fundamental analysis experience preferably on a trading desk with focus on WTI and Brent markets
Experience tracking refinery economics and forecasting runs West of Suez. East of Suez understanding will be a plus.
Experience tracking crude supplies or ability to reason check vendor forecasts
Petroleum products knowledge a value add
Strong technical skills with experience handling large data sets efficiently and systematically.
Programming languages particularly Python will be valuable, while having the ability maintain simple excel files and vba codes
Compelling communication skills to convey analysis in simple and succinct way during weekly discussions and meetings, using power points or automated dashboards
Critical thinking and problem solving skills
Team player and can do attitude is necessary to succeed
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
There are so many stories to tell of the great people that are helping the world to thrive at Cargill. You can find a few of the stories of diverse talent that make up the trading, merchandising and global trading analytics teams at Cargill. Access their stories here: https://www.cargill.com/careers/trading-careers
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