Trader Resume
SUMMARY:
A highly efficient Trading Professional with experience in wide range of petroleum products trading seeking a career as a broker in a company where a solid work ethic, energy, innovative strategies and experience are rewarded with opportunities.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint), Ms Project, SAP, Business Objects, Planview, Lotus Notes, QuickBooks, Peachtree Accounting, Oracle Financial Systems, SAS, SQL, and Visio.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Trader
Responsibilities:
- Facilitating buyers and sellers in reaching agreement as to the procedures of the sale and the wording of different financial instruments to be used (LC, BG, SBLC, DLC, RDLC...)
- Facilitating & Trading on behalf of clients (sellers and buyers of oil products: Bonny Light Crude Oil, Diesel, Jet fuel, Mazut & Aramco Crude)
- Negotiating and agreeing on price, specification and delivery details
- Liaising with transportation, shipping and insurance companies
- Interpreting market reports & investigating new business openings
- Building Business relationships
Confidential
Account Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managing a portfolio of accounts (buyers and sellers)
- Using own contacts to generate new business and liaise with other facilitators, seller’s/buyer’s mandates and refineries in Russia, Middle East, Africa and America
- Delivering presentations to potential clients
- Conducting sale and Marketing products over the phone and sometimes face to face
- Maintaining good relationships with clients
Confidential, Houston, TX
Senior Mid office Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Prepare monthly sales refinery report for Petrochemical Business Managers.
- Analyze crude data and prepare reports as requested utilizing Databases
- Prepare refining forecasting and estimates reports
- Manage and calculate monthly earnings model for Refineries
- Maintain daily margin analysis
Confidential, Houston, TX
Project PMO Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Handled cost analysis and estimates in support of Upstream & offshore IT Business Projects.
- Preparation of project stewardship reports, consulting on project economics and capital treatment.
- Resolve budget discrepancies related to Upstream Business Projects.
- Develop Bi - Weekly Project Status Report documents for all assigned projects.
- Perform trend analysis.
- Prepare required financial documents.
Confidential, Houston, TX
Analyst (Contract)
Responsibilities:
- Handled all facets of cost analysis, price analysis and tracking. Analyze and resolve pricing discrepancies to reduce negative financial impact.
- Perform weekly, monthly, and quarterly price and cost verifications and reports.
- Conducting research, determining data requirements, validating data, and performing analysis for each initiative.
- Recommending optimized solutions from analysis results.
- Develop pricing structure and analyze profit margin. Analyze pricing information to promote margin performance and effective price strategy.
- Performed variance and trend analysis.
Confidential, Houston, TX
Financial Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Manage all facets of forecasting.
- Handle annual budget management and business planning responsibilities.
- Perform trend analysis and adhoc analysis.
- Formulated and review financial analyses.
- Prepare cost vs. benefit analyses.
- Contribute to financial consulting projects.
- Develop management reports that detail financial performance.
- Generate sales reports on a regular basis.
- Execute account reconciliation tasks.
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Senior Financial Volume Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Handled all facets of financial analysis.
- Evaluated financial data and performance measures.
- Participated in reconciliation activities associated with vendor volume collected.
- Analyzed financial discrepancies requested by vendors, account managers, and profit centers.
- Generated monthly volume reports and tracked volume performance levels.
- Performed trend and variance analyses relating to volume performance.
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Ensured the timely and accurate completion of numerous financial analysis functions.
- Developed month-end consolidated financial statements.
- Formulated status reports and presented results to management.
- Utilized SQL and relational databases to successfully manage journal entry and month end reports.