IFCHOR is a highly competitive international shipbroking company providing extensive shipping market coverage and shipbroking expertise to our global clients for over 40 years.
We pride ourselves in delivering a high quality, service minded approach, through our extensive network of proactive team of brokers in strategic locations worldwide.
We are looking for a like-minded bright graduate or a young professional to join and contribute to the continued development of our research team and further success of a world leading shipbroking house.
The successful candidate will be based either in Seattle (WA) with the potential to undertake regular stays abroad for training purposes.
Job Title
Junior Market Research Analyst
Role Description
The executive 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:
• Compile market news and data, generate daily, weekly & monthly market reports
• 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 and shipping markets
• Conduct commercially relevant fundamental and quantitative 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
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned
Profile - qualifications and capabilities:
• Recent graduate (0-3 years work experience) with University degree or proven equivalent qualification in Engineering, Natural Sciences or Maritime Studies
• Understanding of basic financial concepts and financial/commodity markets through course(s) or job experience(s)
• Computer literacy and experience in MS Office
• Computer programming skills (e.g. VBA, MATLAB or Python), database management and data analysis/modelling skills
• International exposure
• Fluent in written and spoken English. Other languages such as Mandarin, Italian or French strongly preferred
• 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
• US/Canadian citizenship or valid work permit for the USA
Please submit your application via email to [email protected]
Please note that we will only respond to applicants who correspond to the profile.
