Responsibilities
- Engage in daily interaction with Petrochemical traders, analysts and external professionals (e.g. data providers/news agencies/analysts and traders in the industry) to identify market drivers and opportunities.
- Maintain information and develop models to provide dynamic analyses of physical demand/supply balances for the key petrochemical products, including plants information, runs, trade flows, tenders and inventories. Focus products include PTA, PX, PP, PE, Naphtha and LPG.
- Stay on top of maintenance schedules for refineries, crackers, petrochemical plants (mainly for aromatics, olefins, and the related derivatives, etc), shipping and other market drivers.
- Develop weekly market reports addressing margins, spreads, forward markets, plants information, and the views about the main market drivers.
- Conduct China macro research and update trading bench on macro events that can shape the balances.
- Backtest trade strategies and provide trading ideas based off fundamental research to the trading bench.
- Ad-hoc analysis on events that affect the oil and petrochemicals space.
Requirements
- Minimum Degree, preferably in Statistics, Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, Financial Engineering.
- Possess strong analytical and communication skills.
- Highly proficient in Excel and other Microsoft applications.
- A good team player who is able to work independently.
- Hardworking and willing to learn.
- Knwoledge in Petrochemical market is an added advantage.
- Able to speak, read and write reports in both English and Chinese languages due to strong presence in Chinese markets and frequent liaison with Chinese counterparts.
