Research Analyst

  • Full-time

Company Description

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $10+billion invested in long-term assets.

Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from some 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2024 were $331bn.

For more information: vitol.com

    Job Description

    • Track refined oil products vessel movements across key global and regional trade routes, including arbitrage flows, intra-regional movements, and destination changes.
    • Monitor cargo activity, loadings, discharges, vessel congestion, and floating storage to assess supply and demand developments.
    • Prepare regular reports on key product flows, floating storage, vessel movements, and market developments.
    • Monitor oil product demand trends alongside macroeconomic developments.
    • Develop, update, and maintain demand models for oil products.
    • Maintain oil statistics databases, including imports, exports, refinery runs, inventories, and apparent demand.
    • Maintain daily and weekly reports covering inventories, refinery margins, open interest, weather impacts, fuel switching trends, and other relevant market indicators.

    Qualifications

    • Good degree in analytical or technical disciplines.
    • Excellent written/ verbal communication and presentation skills.
    • Meticulous, persistent with a sense of curiosity.
    • Able to work in a team as well as independently.
    • Good time management skills and able to meet deadlines.
    • Experiences in market or trade flow analysis will be an advantage.
    • Fresh graduate are welcome

    Additional Information

    • Ability to work in a high-pressure trading environment.
    • 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)

    Vitol Asia is committed to providing equal opportunities to all staff. Globally, Vitol seeks to conduct its business in accordance with the UN Global Compact’s ten principles, including those on human rights, one of which is to “Ensure a diverse and inclusive work place, where possible, free from discrimination regardless of age, gender, race, cultural heritage, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or disability.”

    Only successful candidates will be contacted.

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