Associate Price Reporter, Crude Oil
Associate Price Reporter, Crude Oil
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About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
09The Role: The Associate Price Reporter Crude Oil is a price reporter and analyst who takes responsibility for day-to-day reporting on oil markets in Europe and Africa.
The Impact: The Associate Price Reporter in this position is responsible for every aspect of market reporting including the collection and publication of primary market information running an assessment process assessing the value of a variety of oil markets reporting market-related news writing commentary and analysis contributing to methodology development and engaging with market sources.
The Business: At S&P Global Platts the premier source of commodities intelligence the content you generate and the relationships you build are essential to the energy petrochemicals metals and agricultural markets.
Your Skills: Experience of relevant reporting or analytical experience; Strong mathematical skills; Strong writing skills; Ability to perform well with tight deadlines.
Accountabilities:
Assess markets:
The price reporter in this position assesses the value of oil markets accurately and fully in line with our rigorous and well-known methodology. The price reporter will survey market participants throughout the day; publish price updates through the day especially all information that might be used in assessing value; run an intensive one-hour or so window period from at the end of the assessment day; demonstrate a thorough understanding of Platts methodology; be rigorous when using mathematics and excel spreadsheets; demonstrate ability to do a full set of assessments without the aid of a spreadsheet; and ensure our methodology for market is up to date.
Write high-quality market commentaries:
The price reporter is responsible for writing commentaries associated with his or her assessments. The commentaries are intended to help our readers better understand what is happening in the market and to better understand how we have arrived at our assessments. The reporter should file commentaries as news stories before midday if markets are volatile or unusually interesting; avoid repetitive and formulaic commentaries where the same structures and phrases are used every day; closely monitor relevant inter-product and inter-region spreads; and ensure commentaries meet our editorial standards for writing and reporting.
Report news about the markets:
The price reporter is responsible for reporting news and analysis relating to his or her market. The new should help our readers understand issues in the marketplace whether they are traders analysts government regulators working in the supply chain or in another walk of life. Relevant stories include news about supply and demand developments government data new developments in regulations trader movement news general analysis of price trends and other relevant topics. The price reporter should provide a good blend of standard news reportingthe news that needs to be donewith creative enterprise reporting that generates original reporting for S&P Global Platts; file a reasonable quantity of stories relevant to their markets and we prize the quality and originality of news reports over sheer quantity alone; regularly file stories before lunchtime; work closely with the news desk the Managing Editor and others to identify and write good news stories about issues the markets; demonstrate a strong sense of what news our readers want to see and be a vocal contributor to regular news meetings with the team.
Engage with the industry:
The price reporter is responsible for engaging with market sources around the region including those who are not regularly in the Market-on-Close assessment process. Excellent engagement helps ensure we are close to market developments methodology development is strong story writing is creative and that channels of communication are established and open with market sources. The price reporter should find and nurture new market sources; maintain a good relationship with existing sources; ensure source lists are up to date and stored on the network in line with our Editorial Standard for source maintenance; send summaries of meetings to manager and immediate colleagues; avoid an over-reliance on Instant Messaging try to talk to each source at least once a week and meet with different sources for lunch about once a week; handle complaints in line with Editorial Standard for complaints management
Other Required Accountabilities:
Meet deadlines: In the office by 9.30am London time; Publish assessments by 6.30pm; Publish commentaries by 7.00pm.
Meet Platts editorial standards: Ensure all methodology initiatives are managed through MTT
Meet Platts editorial standards: Follow house reporting style
Meet Platts editorial standards: Correct less than 0.25% of assessments published
Meet Platts editorial standards: Handle enquiries and complaints effectively
Essential Skills:
Experience of relevant reporting or analytical experience
Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with a wide range of role types and personalities internally and externally
Confidence with networking and developing business relationships
A developed interest in commodity markets and Crude Oil
Strong public speaking / presentational skills
Good numeracy skills including confidence using Excel
Excellent English speaking and writing skills
Fluency in additional languages would be an advantage
About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term sustainable value.
Were a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders market participants governments and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition S&P Global Commodity Insights coverage includes oil and gas power chemicals metals agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the worlds foremost provider of credit ratings benchmarks analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings we help many of the worlds leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow today.
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Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay retirement planning a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: Its not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones too with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awardssmall perks can make a big difference.
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S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability marital status military veteran status unemployment status or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
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