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Job Title: Project Analyst
About the Role
Having recently been acquired we’re in the process of separation out a division, Fastmarkets, of the former Euromoney plc group. As part of this project, we’re looking for an FTC to manage and co-ordinate the project budget and related activities such as identification of stranded costs, TSA costings and reporting.
The right candidate will be comfortable dealing with C-suite level individuals and experience at working with the business in identifying costs and constructively challenging spend and will bee skilled in working in a fast-paced environment, delivery of accurate and timely insights and comfortable with working through a transformational change.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Maintenance of undisclosed project budget
- Ownership of reporting actual comparisons and monthly movements through change log
- Ownership of month end process inclusive of;
- Reviewing actuals and identifying requirements for accruals
- Actualising monthly costs
- Completion of Group Finance and FP&A reporting requirements
- Identify Delinian Stranded costs and Fastmarkets Dual-running costs
- Build out detailed stranded/dual-run cost budget and forecast
- Own process of validating monthly TSA invoicing between Delinian and Fastmarkets
- Liaise with Delinian Treasury team in maintaining project cash flow and ensure cash items are recorded accordingly
- Deal with ad-hoc requested centred around the project
- Support wider Separation work with EY and other external advisors
Education / Qualifications / Work experience
- Studying towards or qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA) with strong financial accounting experience
- Technical competence in finance systems
Competencies
- Analytical thinker with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to exercise independent professional judgement within an overall business context
- Ability to assess risk and develop mitigation
- Collaborative stakeholder management approach with influencing skills
- Ability to gather financial data from multiple sources, condense, analyse and interpret/relay
- Proficient Excel skills and confident at presenting
Personal Attributes
- Proactive team player with strong work ethic
- Flexible “Can do” solution orientated attitude
- Good interpersonal skills
- Willing to challenge others; challenging and questioning in an un-confrontational manner
- Integrity, sound judgement and decision-making ability
- Attention to detail – ability to present accurate information precisely and confidently across the business
NextGen is part of the Financial and Professional Services division of Delinian (formerly Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC), an international business-information group.
At NextGen, we're building the future of information services: transforming our portfolio of B2B publishing brands into a modern, global information business.
Our business serves professionals across the financial and professional services sector, covering markets such as banking, legal, and insurance. We are a highly diversified business with services that support clients' market intelligence, business development, and workflow solutions, and over 70% of our revenue is recurring. Across NextGen, we have over 600 colleagues located in three main hubs, and customers in over 150 countries.
Our business is transforming as we seek to retain the relevance our brands have within the markets they serve, while also taking advantage of our scale to deliver better results for our customers and shareholders. This means laser focus on responding to our client's needs for specialism, while also building common tools and functions that allow us to meet customer's needs better.
We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial culture – enabling creative, action-oriented, and knowledgeable professionals to do their best work. We also believe in autonomy, accountability, passion, and a sense of humor.
Summary of Role:
This role involves work on IJGlobal’s market data services – tracking, researching and recording global infrastructure funds in our IJInvestor database; building expertise in project finance and infrastructure markets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Data input and management of our funds database – IJInvestor.
- Monitoring IJInvestor news and third party sources for information related to infrastructure funds.
- Analysing funds information and investments, and reporting it in various forms.
- Building relationships with market participants and speaking with the market to continuously obtain further information related to infrastructure funds.
- Retroactive cleansing of your data for inaccuracies or omissions based on subsequent information obtained.
- Supporting and collaborating with relevant IJGlobal editorial staff on data analytics and reports
- Maintaining your basic understanding of project finance and infrastructure at all times
- Other duties as requested by your immediate manager.
Essential skills and experience:
- Ability to read large amounts of written-word and numerical sources very quickly and interpret this as trained
- Ability and enthusiasm to find, quickly read and comprehend financial news articles
- Exceptional online research skills with advanced search engine familiarity. Excellent understanding of keyword searching, keyword and phrase exclusion and so on
- Excellent investigative ability – ability to work things out by pulling together multiple and disparate sources
- Genuinely strong computer literacy with ability to quickly enter data
- Degree in Economics, Finance or related subjects
- Excellent investigative ability – ability to work things out by pulling together multiple and disparate sources
- Genuinely strong computer literacy with ability to quickly enter data
- Degree in Economics, Finance or related subjects
Essential person requirements
- An almost pedantic nature and desire to work things out
- Proactive attitude and desire to get things done
- Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm
- Genuine habit for lateral thinking
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Comfortable with occasional flexibility in hours during busy periods
- Interest in finance, economics and/or commercial law
- Ability and desire to speak to senior project finance practitioners at banks and law firms
- Excellent grasp of English
Highly desirable but not essential:
- Some experience in working with financial data and databases
- Fluency in additional languages
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
The Strategic Account Manager role is responsible for organic growth of existing account with an average order value between £10,000 and £100,000. The role is responsible for between 80-100 accounts each so a balanced approach to increasing spend and reducing churn in needed to be successful. The role doesn’t contain any new business but is expected to deliver growth on the existing book through effective data licencing, cross-selling and up-selling.
Fastmarkets is equally about sales performance and sales behaviors, it is crucial that anyone stepping into this role understand and respects that how Fastmarkets grows is as important as how much we grow. Within those behaviors we expect full collaboration, a customer centric approach and a first class communication style both internally and externally.
Skills
As a Strategic Account Manager, you must have the following skills:
- Ability to meets and exceeds revenue quota through the management and execution of the sales process
- Employs consultative sales techniques to manage renewals, generate new opportunities and drive growth
- Must have strong analytical and communication skills focused on effective discovery
- Experience and skill in pipeline management and forecasting
- CRM Account Management experience to fully utilize Salesforce for Lead to order process, pipeline management, forecasting
- Experience putting together effective customer-facing presentations for a varity of personas (C-level, Procurement, Finance, Sales)
- Can work across functions and collaborate internally so as to provide utmost value to customer and draw best results
- Can work in a team environment and is coachable
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Closing date for applications: 6th April 2023
Location: Atlanta
Contract type: Permanent, full time
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
A vital, front-line position tasked with developing expertise and understanding of global biofuel feedstock markets with specific focus on either a primary geography or a main commodity, and a strong supporting knowledge of bulk agriculture markets. A flexible price reporting role blending elements of journalism, numeracy and relationship skills, the price reporter is the eyes and ears of our coverage. The role is charged with delivering breaking news, daily commentary, and pricing services and to work with the regional and international team to oversee appropriate methodology that underpin robust price reporting services.
Principle accountabilities
- Develop strong understanding of biofuel mandates and legislative landscape, related feedstocks and traded certification/ticket schemes, awareness of the technological innovation that is driving the liquid fuel contribution to energy transition.
- Develop good knowledge of planting cycles, supply chains, end uses, participants and trends with a particular focus on related cash markets to deliver strong, representative price assessments backed with thorough supporting content
- Collect pricing data and assess prices in line with the appropriate methodology and to a standard in line with IOSCO principles
- Write a daily market commentary reporting on significant trends, major price movements and major factors shaping today’s price
- Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit or verify pricing data and provide unique cash market insights for news and analysis
- Develop connections with the industry via face-to-face industry meetings where possible, telephone or other media, always representing the Fastmarkets Agriculture brand
- Provide cover on other, related energy markets and ensure consistency in assessing at all times
- Be the first point of contact for any editorial queries relating to our news or pricing services, escalate and alert the management team when appropriate
- Identify new opportunities to expand coverage, launch new pricing services or improve methodology
- Help foster Fastmarkets prices and expertise through the team’s engagement priorities, which includes producing PRA content, deeper analysis of trends, participating in internal and external events, promoting the company on social media and attending industry meetings
Attend appropriate internal training courses
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
- A high level of written and spoken English is essential. Knowledge of other languages also helpful
- Strong grasp of economic fundamentals, understanding of agricultural cycles and interest in energy transition, sustainability, financial and commodity markets
- Exceptional networking and communication skills and good, confident telephone manner
- Ability to work with discipline and dynamism, taking initiative to cover stories and root out information
- Team player who fosters an excellent working culture and acts, internally and externally, in a professional manner with integrity
- Ability to work with numbers and spreadsheets as well as handling large volumes of data to produce analytical editorial copy
- Practical experience in journalism, writing or industry exposure, with a focus on an ability to spot market moving news, layout and structure basic news articles and support wider collaborative pieces
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Closing date for applications: 6th April 2023
Location: Bulgaria
Contract type: Full time, permanent
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
JOB PURPOSE
We are looking for an analytical, energetic, creative and self-motivated individual to join our Forecast & Analysis Practice for North American Wood Products as a data analyst. The individual will work with our team of wood products economists and will provide support for our current forecast publications and research projects covering the North American Wood Products markets, some of which may turn into new products for the company. The individual will assist in basic research and analysis on wood products and end-use markets, running and maintaining programs, creating presentations, generating tables and charts, and maintaining large time series databases.
The role will also be responsible for supporting the sales and marketing teams in the production of adequate marketing materials, sales training, and sales discussions with clients to further their ability in selling RISI's North American Wood Products offerings.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Maintain and manage databases
- Coordinate data requirements with data group.
- Execute routines to compile, check, and store data.
- Assist in forecast generation
- Execute routines that compile data for forecast generation.
- Execute routines that release forecasts when they are completed.
- Generate tables and figures for publication.
- Assist in tracking industry capacity and generating annual panel capacity report.
- Support the creation and maintenance of an annual lumber capacity report
- Update and maintain the existing panel capacity report
- Closely track project and capacity changes, including permanent temporary downtime
- Respond to client data requests
- Assist on special client project and new product development on an ad-hoc basis
KEY INTERFACES
Internal: Economic Analysis Fiber Team, Economic Analysis Pulp & Paper Teams, Mill Intelligence Team, HR
External: Clients, Contacts
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in economics
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Demonstrated time-management and organizational skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications, particularly Excel
- Strong mathematical/econometric modeling/statistical skills
- Strong presenting, writing, speaking, and overall communication skills
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences
Closing date for applications: 4th April
Location: Brazil
Contract type: Full time, permanent
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
Fastmarkets is looking for a Strategic Markets Editor (SME) in Latin America to drives its strategy in renewables, sustainability and battery raw materials, by ensuring the delivery of prices and market-leading content and engagement. We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to think forward, spot opportunities and take initiatives, network and write deep high-level content. A pivotal role at the heart of Fastmarkets editorial, this is a highly collaborative position without direct line management responsibilities, but which helps ensure the growth and development of the team and acts as an ambassador for the Fastmarkets brand.
Job purpose
The Strategic Markets Editor drives Fastmarkets’ PRA strategy in renewables, sustainability and battery raw materials, by ensuring the delivery of prices and market-leading content and engagement. The SME produces deep high-level content, and acts as an ambassador for the Fastmarkets brand and is an integral part of the leadership team. A pivotal role at the heart of Fastmarkets editorial, this is a highly collaborative position without direct line management responsibilities, but which helps ensure the growth and development of the team.
The SME will write with authority about the emerging opportunities, and building in our current prices to their content and engagement, but will also continually scope new prices and spot opportunities. The SME would expect to travel within Latam to engage with key stakeholders, provide local expertise and build our presence and reputation on the ground. Latam is home to the lithium mining triangle and other key mining areas for copper and cobalt, which makes it a great place to originate content, engagement and price ideas from
The SME role is a forward thinking role with less structure than normal and it would need a very experienced journalist who can expand on our existing network, present with ease, and who can spot and act on price development opportunities.
Principal accountabilities
- Identifies opportunities for and produces high-level content, including market reporting, in-depth focus pieces and interviews, to support Fastmarkets Metals’ strategic markets
- Helps guide, train and mentor reporters in the Renewables and BRM team, and gives strategic and functional direction to the team
- Assesses and approves prices for certain strategic markets, and helps to ensure all prices produced in the Energy Transitions team meet company standards
- Produces, coordinates and edits a range of strategic content in a joined-up approach across markets and geographies
- Aligns strategic content with marketing, and across customer interfaces: editorial, events, client presentations and meetings
- Works with the broader business to plan engagement and helps lead the Energy Transitions team to engage with market participants to illuminate customers with commodities expertise and knowledge
- Acts as a brand ambassador at Fastmarkets and other events, attracting high-level speakers and speaking on and hosting conference sessions
- Plans conference themes, ties-in price developments to events, and coordinates editorial coverage in advance of, during, and after events to engage audiences through Fastmarkets content
- Supports pricing and is a resource for junior and senior reporters throughout the pricing sessions in immediate and wider teams’ markets
- Helps with administrative pricing tasks (e.g. maintaining contact list, supporting methodology updates)
- Identifies new areas of coverage and leads content in those fields
- Edits content to ensure it follows bigger picture narratives
- Leads external meetings to promote company strategy
- As part of the leadership team, works with line managers to support the team’s growth and development. This may be through recruitment, training, mentoring or administrative processes.
Key interfaces
- Reports to global editor
- Works with global editors and regional editors to determine and plan priorities for strategic content and customer engagement
- Works closely with reporters, section editors and newsdesk to guide and support a joined-up approach to strategic content
- Collaborates with events portfolio director and events team
- Aligns content approach with strategic goals of marketing
- Works with product team to align and showcase content on customer dashboard
- Engages with research to produce content that is aligned with internal forecasting
- Works with newsdesk to guide production of marketing-strategy-aligned collateral
Skills and knowledge
- Strong journalism and writing skills
- Public speaking ease
- A network of contacts, and strong industry relations
- Experience of working in a PRA and/or in commodities industries
- Dynamism and initiative
- Leadership skills
- Able to operate at the highest levels internally within a matrix management structure, and with external stakeholders
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Closing date for applications: 4th April 2023
Location: Brazil
Contract type: Permanent, full time
Senior Reporter - Activism, The Deal
About the Position:
The Deal is looking for a senior reporter to cover the exciting world of activist investing and corporate governance for The Deal’s sophisticated subscriber base. The senior reporter will cover key market players including institutional investors and corporates as well as the law firms, banks, solicitors and other advisers that serve the activist community. This reporter will cover a wide range of companies and hedge funds with a particular focus on the United States. The ideal applicant will have basic knowledge of the financial markets as well as regulatory filings and legal documents. This role will report to a senior editor and work closely with colleagues to develop proprietary coverage about the industry.
Reporters are expected to produce a mix of daily news and feature stories and show an ability to develop sources for future breaking news. This role can be flexible with respect to location, though the Washington D.C. or New York areas are preferred.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate a strong network of sources spanning hedge funds, investment bankers lawyers, service providers and advisers in the activism world
- Write 1-2 stories per day (mix of features, enterprise and daily stories) to be published to The Deal’s premium subscription website
- Develop exclusive, analytical and idea-generative content with a focus on key market players in activism and the advisers behind those funds and companies
- Opportunities for multimedia appearances and on-camera work in video, podcasts, webcasts and conferences
- Reporters will have the opportunity for travel to attend industry conferences and source meetings
Experience/Skills
- A great eye for news, generate market moving insights and have an ability to translate complex market concepts into simple language for our readers
- A strong willingness to work the phones and go to regular face-to-face meetings to develop strong relationships with industry insiders and observers
- An avid interest in financial and economic subject matters and basic knowledge of financial markets and terminology
- Demonstrate an ability to break news and analyze situations on the fly while working under a deadline
- A track record of writing clean, thoughtful copy
- Self-motivation and initiative to develop activist-related story ideas independently
- The ability to decipher and digest complex financial information
- Industry experience a plus, but not required
- 3 to 5 years financial reporting experience
Perks of Working at The Deal
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401k retirement plan
- Vacation time and paid holidays
- Opportunity to participate in our wellness program
- Onsite events around engaging with our employees
- Tuition reimbursement
- Commuter benefit program
- The annual salary range for this position is $75,000-$100,000. The actual compensation may vary based on geographic location, work experience, education, and skill levels. Our total compensation packages may also include competitive annual bonuses, commissions, or quarterly MBOs, dependent on the role. These will be discussed with you during the interview process. The salary range represents Delinian’s good faith belief of the current market-value for the role at the time of this posting and is provided in support of New York’s Salary Transparency initiative.
About the Company
The Deal is part of Delinian, previously Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. The Deal is an award-winning publication for dealmakers and investors, delivering actionable transaction intelligence to over 100,000 institutional users. Institutions such as law firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds and service providers use The Deal to find their next deal and source related ideas and business opportunities. Across our unique lineup of products, including league tables, special reports, alerts, people coverage, company databases, articles and email newsletters, our team of journalists, data analysts and product developers strive to bring daily coverage and analysis of the deal economy’s people and firms to our diverse audience.
For more information, visit www.thedeal.com.
Inside P&C is looking for an ambitious and determined reporter to join its editorial team in New York.
The team is focused on providing unrivalled market intelligence and real-time insight to senior professionals in the insurance sector based on broad networks of sources and deep knowledge of the industry.
Our mantra is to ensure our readers know first and understand better.
We provide unrivalled intelligence and real-time insight to senior professionals in specialty insurance, covering the big-ticket insurance implications of everything from cyber-attacks, political violence and high-seas piracy, to wildfires, hurricanes and tornadoes.
Our highly collaborative team has deep connections with the industry on which we report. We keep close to the market to dig up news tips and break stories that move markets.
We are looking for a news-hungry journalist who wants to get to the story first and is comfortable operating at speed in an environment where there is a high tariff on mistakes.
Prior experience of financial markets reporting is preferred, but an existing knowledge of insurance is not expected. We will also consider recent graduates who are willing to work hard and are keen to learn.
The ideal candidate is likely to be someone with a willingness to acquire a strong technical understanding of the industry in order to engage with market participants and provide high-value content to subscribers.
We operate a flexible working policy, but the Inside P&C news team come into the New York office a few days a week to collaborate and learn from one another.
The reporter will operate under the oversight of the News Editor.
The reporter will:
- Contribute to the Inside P&C news desk by quickly turning over accurate newswire copy
- Build, maintain and work a network of industry contacts to source exclusive news content and enhance sector understanding
- Progressively deepen understanding of the sector by reading, studying and talking to other staff in the company and industry contacts
- Play an initially small but growing role over time in the contribution of smart news analysis pieces to add value for our readers
- Travel for infrequent business trips and conferences
A successful candidate will have:
- The ability to write clean, concise and accurate copy quickly
- The ability to use internet aggregation tools and emails effectively to scan the internet to generate on-diary news content
- The soft skills, persistence and tempo required to build a network of industry contacts and to work that base to produce exclusive content, whilst dealing with the day-to-day pressures of breaking news
- A determination to win and a desire to be part of a cohesive team focused on delivering first-class journalism
- A growth mentality, including a willingness to study and an irrepressible drive and curiosity to master the subject matter that will see the successful candidate ask questions of colleagues and sources, in addition to reading
- Numeracy to a good standard and a willingness to work with data, as well as basic Excel skills including the ability to create tables, bar charts, pie charts etc. to specified guidelines
A successful candidate may have:
- A journalism qualification
- A track record of working within a professional or student newsroom, and producing quality original content
We offer a competitive compensation package which empowers our employees to thrive both professionally and personally. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K retirement plan, flexible work arrangements, vacation time & paid holidays, tuition reimbursement & learning resources.
The annual salary range for this position is $60,000-$70,000. The actual compensation may vary based on geographic location, work experience, education, and skill levels. Our total compensation packages may also include competitive annual bonuses, commissions, or quarterly MBOs, dependent on the role. These will be discussed with you during the interview process. The salary range represents Delinian’s good faith belief of the current market-value for the role at the time of this posting and is provided in support of New York’s Salary Transparency initiative.
Insider Publishing Group is a unit of Delinian, a portfolio company of highly specialised global businesses, focused on critical insights into a broad range of markets.
The award-winning unit employs 18 journalists and analysts across its London and New York teams and has continued to deliver top and bottom-line growth this financial year.
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
Fastmarkets is looking for a Strategic Markets Editor (SME) in Technology Metals to drives its strategy in renewables and sustainability, by ensuring the delivery of prices and market-leading content and engagement in markets. We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to think forward, spot opportunities and take initiatives, network and write deep high-level content. A pivotal role at the heart of Fastmarkets editorial, this is a highly collaborative position without direct line management responsibilities, but which helps ensure the growth and development of the team and acts as an ambassador for the Fastmarkets brand.
Job Purpose
The Strategic Markets Editor for Technology Metals drives Fastmarkets’ PRA strategy in renewables and sustainability, by ensuring the delivery of prices and market-leading content and engagement in markets. The SME produces deep high-level content, and acts as an ambassador for the Fastmarkets brand and is an integral part of the metals leadership team. A pivotal role at the heart of Fastmarkets editorial, this is a highly collaborative position without direct line management responsibilities, but which helps ensure the growth and development of the team.
The SME role is a forward-thinking role with less structure than normal and it would need a very experienced journalist who can expand on our existing network, present with ease, and who can spot and act on price development opportunities.
Principle accountabilities
- Identifies opportunities for and produces high-level content, including market reporting, in-depth focus pieces and interviews, to support Fastmarkets Metals’ strategic markets
• Helps guide, train and mentor reporters in the technology and energy metals team (TEM), and gives strategic and functional direction to the team
• Assesses and approves prices for certain strategic markets, and helps to ensure all prices produced in the TEM team meet company standards
• Produces, coordinates and edits a range of strategic content in a joined-up approach across markets and geographies
• Aligns strategic content with marketing, and across customer interfaces: editorial, events, client presentations and meetings
• Works with the broader business to plan engagement and helps lead the TEM team to engage with market participants to illuminate customers with commodities expertise and knowledge
• Acts as a brand ambassador at Fastmarkets and other events, attracting high-level speakers and speaking on and hosting conference sessions
• Plans conference themes, ties-in price developments to events, and coordinates editorial coverage in advance of, during, and after events to engage audiences through Fastmarkets content
• Supports pricing and is a resource for junior and senior reporters throughout the pricing sessions in immediate and wider teams’ markets
• Helps with administrative pricing tasks (e.g. maintaining contact list, supporting methodology updates)
• Identifies new areas of coverage and leads content in those fields
• Edits content to ensure it follows bigger picture narratives
• Leads external meetings to promote company strategy
• As part of the leadership team, works with line managers to support the team’s growth and development. This may be through recruitment, training, mentoring or administrative processes.
Key interfaces
• Reports to global editor
• Works with global editors and regional editors to determine and plan priorities for strategic content and customer engagement
• Works closely with reporters, section editors and news desk to guide and support a joined-up approach to strategic content
• Collaborates with events portfolio director and events team
• Aligns content approach with strategic goals of marketing
• Works with product team to align and showcase content on customer dashboard
• Engages with research to produce content that is aligned with internal forecasting
• Works with news desk to guide production of marketing-strategy-aligned collateral
Skills and knowledge
• Strong journalism and writing skills
• Public speaking ease
• A network of contacts, and strong industry relations
• Experience of working in a PRA and/or in commodities industries
• Dynamism and initiative
• Leadership skills
• Able to operate at the highest levels internally within a matrix management structure, and with external stakeholders
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Closing date for applications: 5th April 2023
Location: London
Contract type: Permanent, full time
JOB TITLE: Research Analyst – entry level role
REPORTS TO: Americas Head of Research
DEPARTMENT: Legal Media Group
BRAND: IP Stars & World Tax
SALARY: $45 – 47K USD
LOCATIONS: Applicants MUST be living in the following states to apply: California, Connecticut,
District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin
Legal Media Group, a division of Delinian (formerly Euromoney PLC) is hiring a Research Analyst
We are looking for someone who will perform research and interviews for the legal and professional services markets in their assigned jurisdictions and practice areas. They will analyse law firm submissions and interview leading practitioners, including corporate clients, in order to compile rankings, awards, and editorial content.
1. INTRODUCTION
Our Legal Media business serves professionals across the financial and professional services sector, covering markets such as legal and banking sectors. We are a highly diversified business with services that support clients' market intelligence, business development, and workflow solutions. Across Delinian, we have over 1,000 colleagues located mainly within three main hubs (London, New York, Hong Kong) and customers in over 150 countries.
Our research department publishes market-leading information online and, where necessary, in print for in-house counsel, external practitioners and industry leaders in core practice areas including international tax, international financial law, intellectual property, and litigation/arbitration.
We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial culture – enabling creative, action-oriented, and knowledgeable professionals to do their best work. We also believe in autonomy, accountability, with collaboration sprinkled throughout. passion, and a sense of humor. For more information on the company and our strategy, please visit: www.delinian.com
2. KEY OBJECTIVES
- Interviewing leading legal practitioners and their clients
• Analysing research submissions and market feedback
• Compiling firm and practitioner rankings, analysis and data for the research projects
- Sourcing and writing relevant news and developments
• Representing the brand at events and in meetings
3. SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE (essential and desirable)
- High level research and writing skills
- Ability to keep to work independently, keep deadlines, and multi-task
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn about specialized legal sectors
- Strong organization, note-taking skills, and telephone manner
- Strong written and spoken English
- RELEVANT BACKGROUND
Relevant professional experience includes, but is not limited to:
- Journalism & communications
- B2B publishing
- Research & market intelligence
- Legal support & services
5. EXPERIENCE (essential and desirable)
- Some experience handling large volumes of data and other confidential material
- Some experience of phone or face to face interviewing in a journalistic or research capacity
- Some knowledge of the legal or business environment
- Some experience of writing brief and concise editorial copy
6. KEY INTERFACES
- Daily – Brand Editor
- Regularly – Legal practitioners – IP and tax professionals
- Weekly – Americas Head of Research
- Ad hoc (internal) – Global head of research; commercial, marketing, awards teams
- Ad hoc (external) - Business development, communications contacts at law firms
- BENEFITS
- You will receive a competitive salary as well as other benefits, including vacation, sick, floating and volunteer days, discretionary gifted days and “early-finish Fridays”
- We offer flexible working arrangements and place a strong emphasis on a good work/life balance
- Access to LinkedIn learning for training and upskilling
- We are an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applications from all qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender identity, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
The annual salary range for this position is $45K - $47K USD. The actual compensation may vary based on geographic location, work experience, education and skill levels. Our total compensation packages may also include competitive annual bonuses, commissions, or quarterly MBOs, dependent on the role. These will be discussed with you during the interview process. The salary range represents Delinian’s good faith belief of the current market-value for the role at the time of this posting and is provided in support of New York’s Salary Transparency initiative.
About Euromoney TRADEDATA
Euromoney TRADEDATA is an established and trusted reference data provider to the futures and options industry and has witnessed success, failure and recovery in a market whose structure has fundamentally changed over the last decade but now faces its biggest challenges ahead as a result of significant regulatory change. For 20 years, Euromoney TRADEDATA is proud to have supplied reference data services to clients. During this time the company has worked closely with its customer base to innovate, develop and implement enhanced customised reference data solutions and has tackled market data vendor symbology, responded to increased activity in OTC clearing and new regulatory reporting requirements mandated as a response to the financial crisis.
JOB PURPOSE
- The primary role of Data Controller is to provide data input, data processing and support to the UK Data Controller team and assist the business in achieving key objectives of timely and accurate data delivery
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
As part of the Tradedata data team:
- Ensure that the Exchange Traded (ETD), Over the Counter (OTC) and non-ETD futures and options and related products’ contract specification database is maintained to exacting standards of quality through the use of bespoke workflow tools and training from domain experts
- Be willing and committed to perform daily data entry tasks
- Research public website data and compare results with existing data
- Undertake various data entry projects and adhere to agreed deadlines, maintaining appropriate progress/tracking records
- Ensure that any working procedure guides for all data management processes are maintained/updated with any changes or amendments
- Ensure that all appropriate product information is obtained and processed. Maintain a good record of issues, resolutions, improvements, best practices and demonstrate a procedure for review/updating
- Deliver client contract commitments (SLAs) to time, quality, and cost, highlighting risks and mitigation strategies accordingly
- Keep track of trends and pro-actively identify continuous improvement measures
- Provide cover during staff absences and peak volumes, as directed by the business
- Engage with other team members, building a high performance and inclusive culture in which talent can thrive
- Achieve alignment and understanding to Euromoney’s code of conduct and group policies across the team
- To work with peers across the team to establish networking links and common areas for collaboration
-
KEY INTERFACES
- Works with the Internal team to ensure timely, cost-effective and efficient data sourcing and processing
- Occasionally liaises with third party suppliers of data to ensure adhoc issues are effectively dealt with
- Liaises with business users of data management systems and productivity applications and collating feedback to ensure all user needs are met
- Keeps management informed of operational status through periodic status reporting and project updates
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Personal Skills Essential:
- Good communication skills, able to interact with staff and work with various teams
- A high level of intellectual ability, to plan and carry out research activities
- Good organisational skills, to plan your workload and support team members
- A very high standard of focus, accuracy and attention to detail is essential
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills and can demonstrate flexibility and resilience, to keep going when research doesn't generate results in the expected timescale
- Exemplary high standards of honesty, integrity, and endeavor
- Ability to use initiative in identifying day to day issues and challenges and recommending appropriate course of action(s)
Personal Skills Desirable:
- Ideally, experience gained within a futures & options trading environment or support background
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Experience Must Have:
- Microsoft Excel, Word + PowerPoint
- A basic understanding of Microsoft Access
- Data entry in exacting quality centric environment
Experience Desirable:
- Futures and Options
- SQL Server Management Studio
- Some knowledge of MiFID II and regulatory frameworks
About Euromoney TRADEDATA
Euromoney TRADEDATA is an established and trusted reference data provider to the futures and options industry and has witnessed success, failure and recovery in a market whose structure has fundamentally changed over the last decade but now faces its biggest challenges ahead as a result of significant regulatory change. For 20 years, Euromoney TRADEDATA is proud to have supplied reference data services to clients. During this time the company has worked closely with its customer base to innovate, develop and implement enhanced customised reference data solutions and has tackled market data vendor symbology, responded to increased activity in OTC clearing and new regulatory reporting requirements mandated as a response to the financial crisis.
JOB PURPOSE
- The primary role of Data Controller is to provide data input, data processing and support to the UK Data Controller team and assist the business in achieving key objectives of timely and accurate data delivery
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
As part of the Tradedata data team:
- Ensure that the Exchange Traded (ETD), Over the Counter (OTC) and non-ETD futures and options and related products’ contract specification database is maintained to exacting standards of quality through the use of bespoke workflow tools and training from domain experts
- Be willing and committed to perform daily data entry tasks
- Research public website data and compare results with existing data
- Undertake various data entry projects and adhere to agreed deadlines, maintaining appropriate progress/tracking records
- Ensure that any working procedure guides for all data management processes are maintained/updated with any changes or amendments
- Ensure that all appropriate product information is obtained and processed. Maintain a good record of issues, resolutions, improvements, best practices and demonstrate a procedure for review/updating
- Deliver client contract commitments (SLAs) to time, quality, and cost, highlighting risks and mitigation strategies accordingly
- Keep track of trends and pro-actively identify continuous improvement measures
- Provide cover during staff absences and peak volumes, as directed by the business
- Engage with other team members, building a high performance and inclusive culture in which talent can thrive
- Achieve alignment and understanding to Euromoney’s code of conduct and group policies across the team
- To work with peers across the team to establish networking links and common areas for collaboration
-
KEY INTERFACES
- Works with the Internal team to ensure timely, cost-effective and efficient data sourcing and processing
- Occasionally liaises with third party suppliers of data to ensure adhoc issues are effectively dealt with
- Liaises with business users of data management systems and productivity applications and collating feedback to ensure all user needs are met
- Keeps management informed of operational status through periodic status reporting and project updates
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Personal Skills Essential:
- Good communication skills, able to interact with staff and work with various teams
- A high level of intellectual ability, to plan and carry out research activities
- Good organisational skills, to plan your workload and support team members
- A very high standard of focus, accuracy and attention to detail is essential
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills and can demonstrate flexibility and resilience, to keep going when research doesn't generate results in the expected timescale
- Exemplary high standards of honesty, integrity, and endeavor
- Ability to use initiative in identifying day to day issues and challenges and recommending appropriate course of action(s)
Personal Skills Desirable:
- Ideally, experience gained within a futures & options trading environment or support background
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Experience Must Have:
- Microsoft Excel, Word + PowerPoint
- A basic understanding of Microsoft Access
- Data entry in exacting quality centric environment
Experience Desirable:
- Futures and Options
- SQL Server Management Studio
- Some knowledge of MiFID II and regulatory frameworks
About Euromoney TRADEDATA
Euromoney TRADEDATA is an established and trusted reference data provider to the futures and options industry and has witnessed success, failure and recovery in a market whose structure has fundamentally changed over the last decade but now faces its biggest challenges ahead as a result of significant regulatory change. For 20 years, Euromoney TRADEDATA is proud to have supplied reference data services to clients. During this time the company has worked closely with its customer base to innovate, develop and implement enhanced customised reference data solutions and has tackled market data vendor symbology, responded to increased activity in OTC clearing and new regulatory reporting requirements mandated as a response to the financial crisis.
JOB PURPOSE
- The primary role of Data Controller is to provide data input, data processing and support to the UK Data Controller team and assist the business in achieving key objectives of timely and accurate data delivery
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
As part of the Tradedata data team:
- Ensure that the Exchange Traded (ETD), Over the Counter (OTC) and non-ETD futures and options and related products’ contract specification database is maintained to exacting standards of quality through the use of bespoke workflow tools and training from domain experts
- Be willing and committed to perform daily data entry tasks
- Research public website data and compare results with existing data
- Undertake various data entry projects and adhere to agreed deadlines, maintaining appropriate progress/tracking records
- Ensure that any working procedure guides for all data management processes are maintained/updated with any changes or amendments
- Ensure that all appropriate product information is obtained and processed. Maintain a good record of issues, resolutions, improvements, best practices and demonstrate a procedure for review/updating
- Deliver client contract commitments (SLAs) to time, quality, and cost, highlighting risks and mitigation strategies accordingly
- Keep track of trends and pro-actively identify continuous improvement measures
- Provide cover during staff absences and peak volumes, as directed by the business
- Engage with other team members, building a high performance and inclusive culture in which talent can thrive
- Achieve alignment and understanding to Euromoney’s code of conduct and group policies across the team
- To work with peers across the team to establish networking links and common areas for collaboration
-
KEY INTERFACES
- Works with the Internal team to ensure timely, cost-effective and efficient data sourcing and processing
- Occasionally liaises with third party suppliers of data to ensure adhoc issues are effectively dealt with
- Liaises with business users of data management systems and productivity applications and collating feedback to ensure all user needs are met
- Keeps management informed of operational status through periodic status reporting and project updates
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Personal Skills Essential:
- Good communication skills, able to interact with staff and work with various teams
- A high level of intellectual ability, to plan and carry out research activities
- Good organisational skills, to plan your workload and support team members
- A very high standard of focus, accuracy and attention to detail is essential
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills and can demonstrate flexibility and resilience, to keep going when research doesn't generate results in the expected timescale
- Exemplary high standards of honesty, integrity, and endeavor
- Ability to use initiative in identifying day to day issues and challenges and recommending appropriate course of action(s)
Personal Skills Desirable:
- Ideally, experience gained within a futures & options trading environment or support background
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Experience Must Have:
- Microsoft Excel, Word + PowerPoint
- A basic understanding of Microsoft Access
- Data entry in exacting quality centric environment
Experience Desirable:
- Futures and Options
- SQL Server Management Studio
- Some knowledge of MiFID II and regulatory frameworks
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Liaising with buy-side and sell-side clients and analysing usage, in order to gauge their needs for additional services, such as consulting, workflow products, API, bespoke reports and more Create and execute a strategic retention campaign to increase usage among existing subscribers (for example identifying gaps in usage and targeting specific accounts with demos)
- Managing Salesforce and other Client Management Systems (CMS) to ensure leads, trials and other client activity is communicated to the Head of Business Development and related teams on an ongoing basis
- Visiting clients and prospective clients on-site or virtually to offer demos of the DDS services and related services
- Preparing and following up contracts to ensure they are signed and returned on time
- Vetting SRP Asia-Pacific and eTD Global trial registrations, ensuring they are contacted within 24 hours
- Handling incoming client or trial requests for the Asia-Pacific region for SRP and Global for eTD and feeding and discussing leads to the Head of Business Development
- Managing the full life cycle of questionnaire requests from third parties, primarily potential or active clients and partners, liaising with internal and external personnel to the point of questionnaire completion, submission and acceptance
- Supplying customers with timely responses regarding support issues, product information and company information.
- Ability to work leveraging resources from across the company including Services, Sales Engineering and Customer Support
- Gaining a clear understanding of customers' businesses and requirements
- Gathering market and customer information and authoring reports.
KEY INTERFACES
- Business Development Director - eTD & SRP
- SRP’s Head of Business Development
- eTD Account Managers
- SRP’s European Client Relations
- SRP’s APAC Reporter
- SRP & eTD Leads, incoming trial requests, and existing clients on the buy and sell-side.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
ESSENTIAL
- Undergraduate degree
- Excellent analytical skills
- Confidence to hold a conversation with clients of at all levels of seniority
- Genuine interest in investment products and financial markets
- Languages: excellent fluent English and Chinese (Mandarin) any other languages beneficial
- Ability to travel – occasional international travel may be required.
DESIRABLE
- Previous front office / client-facing experience is an advantage, particularly in pre-sales, account management or investor relations
- Futures and Options trading or support background
- MiFIDII, EMIR and other global regulatory frameworks
- Languages: Japanese, Korean and French are an advantage
- MS Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint + Teams
- Experience in authoring formal documentation specifically file specifications and reports
- Ability to learn new skills quickly
- Creative and resourceful thinker
- Good interaction with staff and working with teams
- Very good organisational and planning skills
- A very high standard of focus, accuracy and attention to detail is essential.
BEHAVIOURIAL COMPETENCIES
- Strong work ethic, client focused and attentive to details
- Commercially savvy – comfortable building relationships with prospective clients and delegates and steering them to a sale
- Comfortable cold calling when necessary
- Exemplary high standards of honesty, integrity and endeavour.
- Ability to use initiative in identifying day to day issues and challenges and recommending appropriate course of action(s)
- Results orientated
- Disciplined in budget analysis
- Time creative
- Motivated and good motivator
- Have flexibility in day-to-day work environment
- Strong and engaging personality that customers will appreciate and respond to.
At NextGen, we're building the future of information services: transforming our portfolio of B2B publishing brands into a modern, global information business.
Our business serves professionals across the financial and professional services sector, covering markets such as banking, legal, and insurance. We are a highly diversified business with services that support clients' market intelligence, business development, and workflow solutions, and over 70% of our revenue is recurring. Across NextGen, we have over 600 colleagues located in three main hubs, and customers in over 150 countries.
Our business is transforming as we seek to retain the relevance our brands have within the markets they serve, while also taking advantage of our scale to deliver better results for our customers and shareholders. This means laser focus on responding to our clients’ needs for specialism, while also building common tools and functions that allow us to meet customers’ needs better.
We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial culture – enabling creative, action-oriented, and knowledgeable professionals to do their best work. We also believe in autonomy, accountability, passion, and a sense of humor.
NextGen is part of the Financial and Professional Services division of Euromoney Institutional Investor, an international business-information group listed on the London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 250 share index. For more information on the company and our strategy, please visit: https://www.euromoneyplc.com/about-us
About Power, Finance & Risk and IJGlobal
The combined Power Finance & Risk (PFR) and IJGlobal team in New York provides proprietary
market intelligence on project finance, M&A and investment in the power, renewable energy and
infrastructure sectors in North and South America.
The titles aim to be accurate, timely and comprehensive, delivering exclusive, non-public
information on project finance transactions, asset sales, capital markets activity, personnel and
strategies. Besides hard data, the news coverage includes insightful commentary from market
participants, analysis of transaction structures and trends, and in-depth case studies.
The New York-based Reporter will write about energy markets in the Americas, working in partnership with other members of the Americas editorial team, and driving the growth of the brand both editorially and commercially in the region.
Key responsibilities: Writing proprietary news stories
Maintaining broad and high-level contact with the market through daily telephone calls and frequent face-to-face/virtual meetings
Other responsibilities: Periodic analysis features
Building and maintaining close relationships with key market participants not restricted to bankers & lawyers but including sponsors, developers, contractors and government
Involvement in agenda setting for events and occasionally chairing panel discussions
Skills: Assertive, tenacious and bold
Interrogative telephone and sophisticated face-to-face interview skills.
Perfect written English
A willingness to gain a detailed understanding of the energy M&A markets and the participants in them
Past experience will aid candidates but is not a requirement
The annual salary range for this position is $54,000 to $64,000. The actual compensation may vary based on geographic location, work experience, education and skill levels. Our total compensation packages may also include competitive annual bonuses, commissions, or quarterly MBOs, dependent on the role. These will be discussed with you during the interview process. The salary range represents Delinian’s good faith belief of the current market-value for the role at the time of this posting and is provided in support of New York’s Salary Transparency initiative.
About the Company
The Deal is part of FTSE 250-listed Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc. The Deal is an award-winning publication for dealmakers and investors, delivering actionable transaction intelligence to over 100,000 institutional users. Institutions such as law firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds and service providers use The Deal service to uncover trends and source related ideas and business opportunities. Across our unique lineup of products, including league tables, special reports, alerts, people coverage, company databases, articles and email newsletters, our team of journalists, data analysts and product developers strive to bring daily coverage and analysis of the deal economy’s people and firms to our diverse audience.
For more information, visit www.thedeal.com.
About the Position
The Deal is looking for an enterprising reporter to cover M&A and private equity in the energy and industrials sectors with a keen eye toward technology’s impact on businesses within those fields. The role will sit within a team of reporters based in our New York office and be part of a group of more than two dozen journalists, analysts and researchers world-wide. The reporter will be focused on deals within traditional and alternative energy, commodity and specialty materials, transportation and logistics, as well as business services, particularly those deals involving disruptive technology.
The ideal applicant has basic knowledge of the financial markets and the key players in the world of dealmaking. This reporter will be expected to produce a mix of daily news and feature stories and show the ability to develop sources for future breaking news. This reporter will cover companies involved in the production of fossil fuels and green energy, makers and distributors of advanced materials, and providers of specialized services to various businesses, as well as the investors behind those companies. This role will report to a senior editor and work closely with colleagues across the newsroom.
Responsibilities/Opportunities
- Break pre-M&A news in the energy and industrials sectors with strong sourcing and news judgment.
- Produce 1 to 2 articles per day including daily news, features and enterprise stories.
- Cultivate a strong network of sources spanning investment bankers, private equity professionals, institutional investors and others involved in dealmaking.
- Develop strong tone and perspective within given industry focus through exclusive, analytical and idea generative content.
- Appearances and on-camera work in video, podcasts, webcasts and conferences.
- Domestic and international travel to attend Deal-branded and other industry conferences.
Experience
- Basic knowledge of financial markets and terminology
- Demonstrate ability to break news and analyze situations on the fly
- Excellent communication skills, both on the phone and in-person
- Be confident working to strict deadlines
- Willingness to make calls and attend meetings for source development
- On-camera or on-air experience
- Industry experience a plus, but not required
Perks of Working at The Deal
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401k retirement plan
- Vacation time and paid holidays
- Opportunity to participate in our wellness program
- Onsite events around engaging with our employees
- Tuition reimbursement
- Commuter benefit program
About Euromoney Institutional Investor
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (www.euromoneyplc.com) is an international business information group listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250 share index. Euromoney’s group of businesses covers asset management, price discovery, data and market intelligence, under brands including Euromoney, Altrata, Information Management Network, Fastmarkets, Institutional Investor and BCA Research, Ned Davis Research. Euromoney also runs an extensive portfolio of large-scale events.
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
We are continuing to evolve how to better serve our customers and improve our customer experience. In doing so we are looking for a Customer Success Executive to provide our Americas accounts with a first-class journey.
We are looking for an individual who has a strong background in client management. This will be an individual who is not only able to build great rapport with our customers and provide them with exceptional training and support but who can also spot gaps in their solutions and processes and find ways to fulfill these.
The Customer Success Executive will report directly into the Director, Global Accounts and will be responsible for leading initiatives across our Global Accounts who are Headquartered in the Americas.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Collaborate with Account Managers to develop account strategies for our Americas customers to ensure fruitful and lasting partnerships with them
- Responsible for the effective delivery of our Customer Engagement Programme for all relevant accounts – focusing on training all users on the key features and benefits of all Platforms, driving strategic engagement, and increasing the overall levels of customer experience
- Monitor usage stats and put in place improvement plans for accounts that are struggling to adopt
- Use all data available to you to identify at risk accounts, flag these to the Account Manager, and work with them to get a customer back on track
- Recognise gaps in a customer’s package - as well as upsell opportunities and new user identification - and support the Account Manager in the closing of these opportunities
- Listen to our Customers’ feedback and work with the Product team to add this to product development roadmaps
- Support our customers on technical issues that arise – manage the Customer communication should you need additional support from the technical teams
- Ensure you are full competent on all the latest releases and enhancements in our solutions and that you have effectively communicated these to your customers (and provided additional training where necessary)
- Be prepared to hold in depth conversations regarding our pricing, data, methodologies – you should project confidence and credibility and succeed in forging a relationship of trust with your customers
- Work closely with colleagues from all departments (editorial, sales, product and marketing teams) to ensure an outstanding and streamlined customer experience
- Maintain an exceptional level of customer satisfaction rates
- Work with Product to pilot new products as required and to play a key role in their go-to-market strategy
KEY INTERFACES
- Customer Onboarding Team
- Sales Team
- Marketing Team
- Product Team
- Editorial Team
- Sales Enablement Team
- Events Team
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
- Commodities experience (agricultural, metals or forest experience would be highly preferable)
- Strong communication and presenting skills are a must
- Strong technical proficiency with a demonstrable aptitude for excel (knowledge of APIs would be beneficial)
- Background in providing terminal platform support
- Proven experience in a relationship management/account management/customer success environment
- Stakeholder management experience
- The ability to build strong relationships with customers
- Exceptional communication skills (with an emphasis on presentation skills)
- Experience of working in a global business
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Closing date for applications: 4th April 2023
Location: Remote USA
Contract type: Full time, permanent
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
We are continuing to evolve how to better serve our customers and improve our customer experience. In doing so we are looking for a Customer Success Executive to provide our EMEA accounts with a first-class journey.
We are looking for an individual who has a strong background in client management. This will be an individual who is not only able to build great rapport with our customers and provide them with exceptional training and support but who can also spot gaps in their solutions and processes and find ways to fulfill these.
The Customer Success Executive will report directly into the Director, Global Accounts and will be responsible for leading initiatives across our Global Accounts who are Headquartered in EMEA.
KEY INTERFACES
- Customer Onboarding Team
- Sales Team
- Marketing Team
- Product Team
- Editorial Team
- Sales Enablement Team
- Events Team
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
- Commodities experience (agricultural, metals or forest experience would be highly preferable)
- Strong communication and presenting skills are a must
- Strong technical proficiency with a demonstrable aptitude for excel (knowledge of APIs would be beneficial)
- Background in providing terminal platform support
- Proven experience in a relationship management/account management/customer success environment
- Stakeholder management experience
- The ability to build strong relationships with customers
- Exceptional communication skills (with an emphasis on presentation skills)
- Experience of working in a global business
Principle accountabilities
- Collaborate with Account Managers to develop account strategies for our EMEA customers to ensure fruitful and lasting partnerships with them
- Responsible for the effective delivery of our Customer Engagement Programme for all relevant accounts – focusing on training all users on the key features and benefits of all Platforms, driving strategic engagement, and increasing the overall levels of customer experience
- Monitor usage stats and put in place improvement plans for accounts that are struggling to adopt
- Use all data available to you to identify at risk accounts, flag these to the Account Manager, and work with them to get a customer back on track
- Recognise gaps in a customer’s package - as well as upsell opportunities and new user identification - and support the Account Manager in the closing of these opportunities
- Listen to our Customers’ feedback and work with the Product team to add this to product development roadmaps
- Support our customers on technical issues that arise – manage the Customer communication should you need additional support from the technical teams
- Ensure you are full competent on all the latest releases and enhancements in our solutions and that you have effectively communicated these to your customers (and provided additional training where necessary)
- Be prepared to hold in depth conversations regarding our pricing, data, methodologies – you should project confidence and credibility and succeed in forging a relationship of trust with your customers.
- Work closely with colleagues from all departments (editorial, sales, product and marketing teams) to ensure an outstanding and streamlined customer experience
- Maintain an exceptional level of customer satisfaction rates
- Work with Product to pilot new products as required and to play a key role in their go-to-market strategy
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Closing date for applications: 4th April 2023
Location: London
Contract type: Permanent, full time
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
The role of Account Executive is a crucial role to the acceleration of the Fastmarkets growth. They will be prepared to work purely with new logos without relying on an account book to find and convert opportunity within their territory. Experience within the PRA or commodities markets would be welcomed.
- Superb organizational, analytical, and influencing skills.
- Able to quickly grasp new ideas, think on their feet and work to deadlines
- Prospect new opportunities, both directly and via social media, to maintain an appropriate pipeline whilst efficiently managing those opportunities to close
- Proven track record maintaining and updating CRM (Salesforce) to run their territory as well as accurate forecasting performance
- Experience working with MEDDIC, consultative, solution or challenger sales
- Excellent experience of leading and negotiating sales agreements as well as an understanding of a consultative sales cycle.
- A self-starter with drive and ability to create a sense of urgency
- Build strategic relationships with key decision makers from an NEW client base to maximize revenue, drive retention, and deliver client satisfaction
- Cultural values including: A determination to win; a desire to play a role in a cohesive/collaborative team; a craftsman’s approach to work; and a commitment to integrity
- Understanding and interpreting customer insight, our markets and key drivers for our customers
- Ability to travel for events and occasional face to face targeted meetings
- Relevant industry experience and/or relevant language skills would be an advantage but are not a necessity.
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
- Superb organizational, analytical, and influencing skills.
- Able to quickly grasp new ideas, think on their feet and work to deadlines
- Prospect new opportunities, both directly and via social media, to maintain an appropriate pipeline whilst efficiently managing those opportunities to close
- Proven track record maintaining and updating CRM (Salesforce) to run their territory as well as accurate forecasting performance
- Experience working with MEDDIC, consultative, solution or challenger sales
- Excellent experience of leading and negotiating sales agreements as well as an understanding of a consultative sales cycle.
- A self-starter with drive and ability to create a sense of urgency
- Build strategic relationships with key decision makers from an NEW client base to maximize revenue, drive retention, and deliver client satisfaction
- Cultural values including: A determination to win; a desire to play a role in a cohesive/collaborative team; a craftsman’s approach to work; and a commitment to integrity
- Understanding and interpreting customer insight, our markets and key drivers for our customers
- Ability to travel for events and occasional face to face targeted meetings
- Relevant industry experience and/or relevant language skills would be an advantage but are not a necessity.
Principle Accountabilities
The Account Executive role is to drive a focus on winning our new logos and winback accounts. The right candidate will be a pure hunter with a proven track record of targeting and securing new business within the price reporting or business intelligence market. You should have a passion for solution, consultative or challenger sales theory and be able to clearly talk to and articulate value proposition and ROI to new customers.
-
As an Account Executive, you will be accountable for delivery in the following areas;
- Exceed monthly, quarterly and annual quota for new business
- Work within a quickly growing team of Account Executives
- Responsible for increasing sales from our top tier New Logos and Winbacks (previously cancelled accounts)
- Own and deliver a healthy pipeline.
- Significantly increase the pipeline in both val/vol for your commodity vertical
- Accurately forecast and identify areas of Risk that might only be uncovered through prospect calls.
- Accountability on all Key Requirements including upkeep on Prospect Accounts, Contacts and Opportunities by logging calls/emails, creating/completing tasks for follow up, and setting meetings appropriately within Salesforce.
- Develop and maintain key knowledge on the competitive landscape to be able to identify strengths and risks of the Fastmarkets product offering
- Build a strong market knowledge of the metals markets to bring back into the business innovation and investment ideas
- Develop and maintain a clear and well-organised territory and account plan which outlines how you will deliver your sales target consisten
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Location: Boston or Brazil
Contract type: Full time, permanent
About Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 500 staff. We are fuelled by values that brings us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that we call “Working 3.0” that is based on flexibility and trust, which allows us to bring our best selves to work every day.
Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.
We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.
Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, making the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.
Fastmarkets was founded in 1913 (as Metal Bulletin) and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.
About the role
The role of Account Executive is a crucial role to the acceleration of the Fastmarkets growth. They will be prepared to work purely with new logos without relying on an account book to find and convert opportunity within their territory. Experience within the PRA or commodities markets would be welcomed.
- Superb organizational, analytical, and influencing skills.
- Able to quickly grasp new ideas, think on their feet and work to deadlines
- Prospect new opportunities, both directly and via social media, to maintain an appropriate pipeline whilst efficiently managing those opportunities to close
- Proven track record maintaining and updating CRM (Salesforce) to run their territory as well as accurate forecasting performance
- Experience working with MEDDIC, consultative, solution or challenger sales
- Excellent experience of leading and negotiating sales agreements as well as an understanding of a consultative sales cycle.
- A self-starter with drive and ability to create a sense of urgency
- Build strategic relationships with key decision makers from an NEW client base to maximize revenue, drive retention, and deliver client satisfaction
- Cultural values including: A determination to win; a desire to play a role in a cohesive/collaborative team; a craftsman’s approach to work; and a commitment to integrity
- Understanding and interpreting customer insight, our markets and key drivers for our customers
- Ability to travel for events and occasional face to face targeted meetings
- Relevant industry experience and/or relevant language skills would be an advantage but are not a necessity.
About you
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
- Superb organizational, analytical, and influencing skills.
- Able to quickly grasp new ideas, think on their feet and work to deadlines
- Prospect new opportunities, both directly and via social media, to maintain an appropriate pipeline whilst efficiently managing those opportunities to close
- Proven track record maintaining and updating CRM (Salesforce) to run their territory as well as accurate forecasting performance
- Experience working with MEDDIC, consultative, solution or challenger sales
- Excellent experience of leading and negotiating sales agreements as well as an understanding of a consultative sales cycle.
- A self-starter with drive and ability to create a sense of urgency
- Build strategic relationships with key decision makers from an NEW client base to maximize revenue, drive retention, and deliver client satisfaction
- Cultural values including: A determination to win; a desire to play a role in a cohesive/collaborative team; a craftsman’s approach to work; and a commitment to integrity
- Understanding and interpreting customer insight, our markets and key drivers for our customers
- Ability to travel for events and occasional face to face targeted meetings
- Relevant industry experience and/or relevant language skills would be an advantage but are not a necessity.
Principle Accountabilities
The Account Executive role is to drive a focus on winning our new logos and winback accounts. The right candidate will be a pure hunter with a proven track record of targeting and securing new business within the price reporting or business intelligence market. You should have a passion for solution, consultative or challenger sales theory and be able to clearly talk to and articulate value proposition and ROI to new customers.
-
As an Account Executive, you will be accountable for delivery in the following areas;
- Exceed monthly, quarterly and annual quota for new business
- Work within a quickly growing team of Account Executives
- Responsible for increasing sales from our top tier New Logos and Winbacks (previously cancelled accounts)
- Own and deliver a healthy pipeline.
- Significantly increase the pipeline in both val/vol for your commodity vertical
- Accurately forecast and identify areas of Risk that might only be uncovered through prospect calls.
- Accountability on all Key Requirements including upkeep on Prospect Accounts, Contacts and Opportunities by logging calls/emails, creating/completing tasks for follow up, and setting meetings appropriately within Salesforce.
- Develop and maintain key knowledge on the competitive landscape to be able to identify strengths and risks of the Fastmarkets product offering
- Build a strong market knowledge of the metals markets to bring back into the business innovation and investment ideas
- Develop and maintain a clear and well-organised territory and account plan which outlines how you will deliver your sales target consisten
Our values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.
Our values are:
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day. It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
Location: Boston or Brazil
Contract type: Full time, permanent