Fuel Oil Analyst

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What role you will play in our team

As a Fuel Oil Analyst, you will sit at the core of our Fuel Oil trading operations, providing high quality market analysis, actionable insights, and strategic support to the European trading team. You will collaborate closely with traders, senior analysts, and data/technology partners to interpret global fuel oil fundamentals, track physical and paper flows, and identify evolving market dislocations across regions and grades.

What you will do

• Lead analytical coverage for High Sulfur Fuel Oil, Low Sulfur Fuel Oil, and other feedstocks, shaping market views across key trading regions.
• Develop and maintain cross regional perspectives, supporting multi desk trading strategies.
• Build and maintain global and regional Fuel Oil supply, demand, and blending models.
• Track refinery runs, crack spreads, residue production, desulfurization trends, bunker demand, and utilities consumption.
• Forecast balances and identify market dislocations using proprietary data, third party sources, vessel tracking, and refinery databases.
• Collaborate with traders to assess market risks and opportunities.
• Deliver timely insights via dashboards, weekly presentations, and structured strategy discussions.
• Propose trade ideas grounded in market fundamentals, flows, and structural trends.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and analytical tools in SQL, Python, Excel, and Power BI.
• Partner with developers to enhance data ingestion, querying performance, and automation for real-time analytics.
• Prepare weekly and monthly market reports, lead discussions on macroeconomic trends, and present market views to senior stakeholders across trading and management teams.
  
• Liaise with global trading offices in Houston and Singapore to align market views and support portfolio decisions.
• Engage with physical and derivative desks to ensure a holistic understanding of market dynamics.

What you bring

• A degree in Economics, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, or a similar quantitative field.
• Proven experience in Fuel Oil or feedstocks market analytics—preferably within a trading or commercial environment.
• Strong understanding of global fuel oil flows, refining systems, bunker markets, and commodity pricing mechanisms.
• Technical proficiency in SQL, Python, Excel, and Power BI for analytics and visualization.
• Experience developing supply/demand models and trading dashboards.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex analytical insights clearly.
• A proactive, detail‑oriented mindset, thriving in fast-paced, high-pressure trading environments.
• Exposure to trading, physical cargo operations, and refinery economics is highly desirable.

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

• Competitive starting salary
• Generous resettlement allowance
• Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• Share incentive plan
• Private healthcare for employees and their families
• Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law

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Conditions of Employment
Successful candidates will be made a conditional offer of employment. The conditions include, but are not limited to: a satisfactory criminal records disclosure; satisfactory employment references over five years (where applicable); verification of qualifications, including any professional accreditation stated in the application; completion of a pre-employment medical, including a test for illicit or unprescribed drugs in accordance with the Company's safety policies; and the legal right to work on the agreed commencement date.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
ExxonMobil and its United Kingdom subsidiary companies, Esso Petroleum Company, Limited, and ExxonMobil Chemical Limited, are equal opportunity employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. All applicants are offered equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities during our recruitment processes, therefore, please contact the Recruitment Team if you wish to discuss any particular requirements to enable you to complete our recruitment process.

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