Vitol is a leader in the energy sector with a presence across the spectrum; from oil through to power, renewables and carbon. It trades over 7 million barrels per day of crude oil and products and, at any time, has 250 ships transporting its cargoes.

Vitol’s clients include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves clients from some 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets globally including: circa 17m m3 of storage globally, 500k bpd of refining capacity, 7,000+ service stations and a growing portfolio of transitional and renewable energy assets. Revenues in 2022 were $505 billion.

The Product Analyst (PA) role supports all day-to-day running of the trading desk, ensuring a detailed position summary is kept for the traders and for the matrix as a whole (if applicable) and that the traders' exposures are monitored. This may involve the consolidation of data for the trading matrix. 

The PA is also accountable for a broader range of activities on the desk, e.g. risk/ exposure of trades and ensuring exposure is properly documented and calculated in a consistent manner, the monitoring of futures that are near expiry (where applicable), and determining what to hedge (upon checking with traders).

The PA is expected to provide commentary on the daily profitability reports to explain P&L movements - this requires the PA to have a strong understanding of the P&L and other relevant market information related to the matrix. 

The PA provides all management information and decision support to the traders, e.g. creating reports and/or undertaking general trading, market, or other modeling and analysis on behalf of the traders.  In some cases, this may involve other activities such as rolling storage or internal projects such as supporting the setup of a new business and working with the MIS/ IT team.

• Minimum 6-7 years of work experience in a financial institution or accounting firm
• Minimum Diploma holder or higher
• Strong proficiency working with numbers and large data sets
• Good proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required
• Good understanding of the oil industry and/or financial markets is desirable
• Understanding of the trade life cycle is desirable
• Experience working with a trade capture system is desirable

• Have a strong sense of accountability and ownership of key deliverables
• Be comfortable undertaking new concepts and ideas associated with a fast-paced, dynamic business
• Demonstrate the ability to both understand the ‘big picture' and have a willingness to ‘dig into the details'
• Demonstrate the ability to clearly communicate accounting concepts to senior management and translate them in terms of the commercial business
• Continually assess, challenge, and improve processes
• Earn the trust of others by continuously demonstrating the ability to follow-through
• Be curious, creative, and up for a challenge
• Effectively communicate with other departments/ external counterparties (written and verbal)