Senior Oil Market Analyst
Vortexa, United States

Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view of global energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and helping society as a whole.

Having secured over $40mil USD in funding, we are embarking on a period of rapid growth.

The role

• Perform technical analysis of trade flows, the relation to supply, demand and inventory changes and the repercussions of shipping industry fundamentals;
• Analyze the pricing realm, including oil prices and structure, arbitrage differentials, refining margins, freight costs, and recommend improvements to current processes, models and systems;
• Work closely with market and data analyst colleagues in London, Singapore and Houston to build a complete view of the global oil and gas markets;
• Identify the key implications and leading indicators of our data for our commodities and shipping clients;
• Collaborate with senior management to identify and solve a variety of problems and clarify management objectives;
• Assist with the creation of physical and financial trading use cases based on the predictive power of our flows forecasts;
• Conduct market assessment as it relates to crude oil and refined products;
• Provide customers with analytical support via conference calls, presentations and written reports;
• Produce regular content on market/competitive trends and speak externally at conferences and to the media, providing thought-leading views on market trends;
• Manage multiple projects, including analyzing project data and costs, preparing detailed project plans, evaluating progress and ensuring project completion within specified deadlines;
• Understand clients’ requirements and assist them to make informed business and strategic decisions after evaluating and developing market analytical trading tools, dashboards, processes and databases;
• Develop price forecasting models and supply and demand models for crude oil and refined products, and apply manipulative or computational methods to models;
• Attend industry events, build and maintain a strong network of professional relationships.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Energy Management or a related field plus three years of full-time work experience as Market Analyst, Data Analyst, Researcher or related occupations.
• Experience to include:
  1) Detailed understanding of market fundamentals, pricing structures, physical and financial trading strategies;
  2) Advanced knowledge of US and international oil market and expertise analyzing crude oil and refined products’ markets;
  3) Experience using large data sets, with advanced excel, SQL and Python;
  4) Knowledge of competitor landscape, and experience of cargo and vessel tracking data platforms;
  5) Experience using data visualization software, including Tableau and Power BI;
  6) New business development and maintaining relationships with clients

The location of this position is:

Vortexa Inc
2200 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, TX 77056

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