Graduate - Global Trading - 2024 start date London, England
Job description
About us
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
ExxonMobil has operated in the U.K. for more than 135 years. We are best known today for the marketing of our Esso fuels and Mobil 1 lubricants and for our petrochemicals. We have refining and chemical operations in the UK, we operate the UK’s biggest private pipeline network and we retain a non-operated share in a number of fields in the North Sea. More recently, we are developing our involvement in lower emission projects in the UK, building on our experience in carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen production and biofuels.
ExxonMobil’s Global Trading (EMGT) brings together our trading expertise from across the Corporation into a single, Centralized Organization to deliver industry-leading results by more fully leveraging our competitive advantages, our understanding of global energy markets, and our advantaged global asset portfolio. The EMGT organization includes global crude, products and feedstocks, gas and power and freight trading activities. Harmonized business development, origination, analytics, and enablement activities allow EMGT to leverage scale and best practices. Our objective is to deliver on our corporate strategy by more effectively responding to market volatility, creating incremental earnings for our Businesses and, ultimately, growing value for all our stakeholders
What’s in it for you?
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.
You will also receive:
- Competitive starting salary
- Generous resettlement allowance
- Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- Share incentive plan
- Private healthcare for employees and their families
What you will do
The programme is designed to furnish you with a real job from day one, providing hands on experience, opportunities to cultivate foundational trading skills and establish your own career path, while rotating through roles within our global trading job community.
Your first role will depend on your experience, but could include:
Trading Analytics - Performing fundamental market analysis for your commodity that includes using proprietary and third-party data to predict the differences between supply and demand and the resultant change in inventory in order to develop actionable market insights of where you see the market evolving and the opportunities for physical and derivative market positions to support commercial decision making by our trading teams.
Trading Fusion Analytics - Trading Fusion Analytics empowers our Trading analytics and trader teams with better decision-making tools through rapid prototyping and expert support in data engineering, software development, and data science.
Trading Risk & Compliance - Supports Trading in the areas of Exchange Administration, Regulatory and Compliance, Risk Control, Valuations, Risk Reporting, and Risk Analytics. Graduate hires will work closely with Trading and other functions (e.g. Controllers, IT, financial/executing brokers, etc.) to ensure Trading PnL, exposures, mark-to-market accounting, limit monitoring and permissions process are accurate and delivered in a timely fashion.
Planning & Performance - You will design and implement processes to monitor our trading performance to understand and report on the return on the capital, expense, VAR, and people that are used by our rapidly growing Trading business. Using the data that we measure on performance of the business, you will manage and prepare the annual business plan, that includes profit targets by trading sector and develop operating budgets. You will assist senior Trading management develop our strategy and articulate the business performance.
Trader Development Program (TDP)
Candidates with an interest in a long-term career as a Trader, have the opportunity to apply and be selected onto our assessed Trader Development Program (TDP).
The TDP is designed to deliver a structured and rigorous learning experience to assist in the identification and development of best-in-class traders across all commodities at ExxonMobil. Those selected to join this program will develop the competencies needed to be successful as a trading professional by rotating through multiple roles across the Trading Community. On-the-job training will be supplemented by formal multi-disciplinary training. At the end of the program, individuals who successfully complete a formal assessment, including real-life trading simulations, will continue their development in a series of trading roles with increasing responsibilities and market exposure.
About you
To be eligible for this role, you must:
- Have at least a 2:1 degree in any subject
- Be graduating in 2024 or have graduated in the last 3 years (2023-2021).
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Be able to demonstrate:
- A strong attention to detail
- Analytical, numerical and problem solving skills
- An interest in financial markets
- The ability to communicate, collaborate and work effectively with an international team environment
- Leadership capabilities
Relevant work experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
What are the next steps?
If you are Interested, you can apply now.
The closing date for this opportunity is Sunday 22nd October 2023, at which point we will commence our assessment process. If your application is not successful at any stage we will let you know as soon as we can.
If your application meets or exceeds our minimum criteria following the closing date, you will be invited to part in a behavioural assessment.
Successful candidates will subsequently be invited to participate in a Zoom interview including a technical competency assessment.
For candidates who successfully navigate the steps above, our final round, encompasses a half day assessment, in December / January.
ExxonMobil recognises that recruiting and developing the right people is key to our success and so we look for applicants who demonstrate the right skills, attitudes, capability and potential. Our processes are designed to be robust, engaging and consistent.
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