The Company:
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, Dubai 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:
Responsible for physical and paper trading activities and operations within approved risk and resource limits; supports the execution of the trading desk’s strategy and its related tasks; accountable for the trades and the impact to the profit and loss of the book as well as managing the associated risks with the trades.
Key Accountabilities:
Review and adhere to trading strategy on daily basis
• Monitor and adjust position based on risk and trading limits
• Make trading decisions to maximise returns within company’s policies and procedures
• Decide and negotiate deal; validate it with Operations, Contract Administration and Settlement
• ETRM roles:
• input transactions and ship requests in ETRM system abiding by established procedures and manuals
• identify and correct mapping P&L and exposures in ETRM system
• Evaluate all open trading contracts and positions; identify the associated price exposures and develop a daily plan to hedge existing exposures with the derivatives desk
• Identify requirements for chartering and create ship requests in ETRM system
• Keep up-to-date on market information and knowledge management, and reflect market insights in trading strategies and positions
Classification: Company General Use
• Develop and mark all physical forward curves related to the product, provide price information to Strategy and Business Development Manager, and Supply Optimisation Specialist
• Provide market and counterparty insight for the counterparty enlistment process
• Perform price discovery and provide data for the more liquid portion of the price curve of forward curves
• Work closely with product’s scheduler /operation to ensure smooth logistics and operations for the traded product
• Check trades and confirmation to ensure accuracy
• Send new counter party requests to Compliance Desk and support registration with proper documentation
• Prepare market reports, business plans and performance targets as required
Requirements:
· Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering, Finance, Economics or a related discipline
· More than 7 years of experience in physical and derivatives trading
· Well-informed of the world product demand and supply, market dynamics, and arbitrage opportunities
· Well-connected with end-users and counterparties worldwide
· Industry knowledge: supply/demand fundamentals of physical market, product grades and quality specifications, transportation and pipeline infrastructure, competitors, marine operations, third-party system parameters, standard terms and conditions of contracts, knowledge of the global energy business, refinery economics/drivers, understands the value of variations in specification, timing, and volume
· Trading knowledge: market direction/call, trading strategies, trading fundamentals, global markets, arbitrage, market climate, keeps up to date with international events and geo-political climate
· Financial trading knowledge: risk analysis techniques, hedging /speculative / price forecasting instruments, such as, derivatives, futures, options, OTC, and various credit instruments, economic evaluation and analysis, understands concepts such as NPV, value creation, and option value
Good working knowledge of MS Office, trading system and price reporting software (Reuters, Bloomberg, Globalview)
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
We regret to inform you that only selected candidates will be notified.
