Investment Analyst/Associate - Energy London, England
Job description
Company Overview
Vitol is an energy and commodities company; its primary business is the trading and distribution of energy products globally – it trades over seven million barrels per day of crude oil and products and, at any time, has 250 ships transporting its cargoes.
Vitol’s clients include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial and chemical companies and the world’s largest airlines. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves clients from some 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets globally including: circa 16mm3 of storage across seven continents, 480kbpd of refining capacity and more than 6,500 service stations across Africa, Australia, Asia, Brazil and Europe. Revenues in 2019 were in excess of $220bn. For more information please visit: https://www.vitol.com/
Our people
Our people are our business. It is our people’s expertise, innovation, drive and relationships that develop and grow our business. Talent is precious to us and we create an environment in which we believe individuals can reach their full potential, unfettered by hierarchy.
Vitol has a flat, meritocratic organisational structure, which we believe encourages an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, with everyone primarily focused on delivering results, and delivering them efficiently and safely.
Our business is global and our people are as diverse as the world in which we work. We have over 60 nationalities among our team – giving us a diversity of thinking which we believe translates into a greater understanding of our customers and better and more informed decisions.
Investments Group
Our investments team deploys Vitol and our partners’ capital in commodity related infrastructure on a global basis across value chain.
The team manages the firm’s investment activities, including fundraising, investing and divesting with the goal of maximizing value, while minimising risk. The group works with senior leadership within Vitol, our joint venture partners and managers of our portfolio companies to design ways of growing and improving the business, determining the optimal capital structure to support a company’s business strategy.
Building on the success of our current team, we now need an Investment Associate to add further bandwidth to the team to identify, evaluate and execute strategic and tactical investment opportunities.
Position Summary
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Provide initial investment review and screening of prospective investment opportunities
- Building and maintaining detailed financial and valuation models
- Creating presentations for investment proposals and other purposes
- Delivering first class analysis, insight and research on potential investment opportunities
- Coordinating and conducting due diligence on prospective investment opportunities
- Monitoring existing portfolio companies
- Supporting senior colleagues as required
Qualifications and Experience
- Ideally completed a degree in a technical discipline with an outstanding academic record
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in an analytical role in a top-tier global financial institution or private equity fund, ideally focusing on the energy space across the value chain – notably in the energy transition and mobility space or mid and downstream segments. We would also consider strong candidates from other disciplines provided they have a real interest in energy and energy transition
- Strong quantitative, analytical skills, excel and power point capabilities
- Experience in industry due-diligence and financial modelling
- Participation in investment banking training program is an advantage
- Understanding of global energy markets preferred
Personal Characteristics
- Strong technical and analytical skills
- Great attention to detail
- Able to work under pressure, meet deadlines and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Highly motivated and able to flourish in a high-commitment environment - we are looking for a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit
- Humility: Humble, down-to-earth and eager to learn
- Enthusiastic and willing to contribute wherever it is needed
- Results oriented, disciplined, able to synthesize detailed information
- Team player, with an open non-political style and a high level of personal integrity
- First-class communicator
