ICAP Immediate Graduate Opportunity in Shipping Research – Oil and Tanker Division recruitment

ICAP is the world’s premier interdealer broker and provider of post trade risk and information services, connecting buyers and sellers in the world’s financial markets. Fast-moving. Innovative. Meritocratic. It’s an exciting business, a growing business, a hub of innovation. A place where talent and ambition thrive – and where each day brings another opportunity, another challenge, another chance to prove your potential.

We are a billion dollar company, with approximately 4,900 employees in 32 countries. We provide market-leading voice and electronic broking services to a huge variety of clients, including all the major investment and commercial banks. This means matching buyers and sellers in the wholesale markets for interest rates, credit, commodities, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives and shipping, in deals worth in excess of US$1.4trillion a day. This can be done over the phone and in person by specialist voice brokers, or by clients using our electronic networks directly. We also offer a range of post trade risk and information services, providing data and helping organisations reduce operational and systemic risk in their markets.

Research
Our research division works primarily in support of our ship broking business providing invaluable analyses of the shipping and commodities markets, as well as the global and local events that help shape them.

Its day-to-day responsibilities include generating and distributing daily reports for clients, briefing ICAP brokers on what the markets are doing, researching and presenting bespoke findings to clients, addressing conferences and fielding enquiries from journalists. In doing so, our research analysts ensure that ICAP is synonymous with expert, up-to-the minute market insight.

Working in research
Join our research division and from the start you'll be involved in gathering market information, setting up commercial databases, writing about the commodities markets and macro economic factors and progressively expanding your understanding of the shipping and commodities markets.

As you progress, you'll be expected to contribute to the more commercial and analytical activities of the department, including preparing material for client presentations and analytical reports, developing models and new products, marketing and selling our services and training future analysts. Career progression would include increasingly client-facing activities such as giving market presentations and potentially foreign travel.

Who are we looking for?
We have an opportunity for a graduate to join our Shipping Research in our oil and tanker division. ICAP's business is first and foremost about building relationships – both internal and external – so you’ll need excellent interpersonal skills, along with the ability to form effective, professional networks quickly.

Beyond that, you should be intelligent, analytical and passionate about understanding why things happen the way they do. In addition you must be able to write technically and concisely in an engaging style about complex subject matters such as commodities markets, macroeconomics and freight markets. You'll also need to be highly numerate with demonstrated abilities in problem solving and a keen interest in working in global financial markets.

How to apply
You’ll need to send your CV and motivational letter by clickin "Apply Online". To find out more about ICAP, the kind of people we’re looking for, visit www.icap.com/careers.