Senior Price Reporter Hybrid
Senior Price Reporter Hybrid
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Job Description
The Role
To produce price assessments and industryleading market commentary breaking news and analysis which demonstrates PRAaligned knowledge across multiple markets. To support the development of Fastmarkets prices.
Principal accountabilities
- Produce exemplary price assessments and indices in line with company methodology price specifications and IOSCO principles across a range of markets
- Peer review and approve price assessments and indices in order to ensure prices are representative and judgement has been exercised consistently
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive contactbase using all means of communication including facetoface meetings and networking
- Deliver actionable regular accurate market commentary in a timely manner as well as indepth features focus pieces and analysis with minimal editing needed. Demonstrate depth and breadth in this content through experience and knowledge
- Demonstrate complex and consistent use of judgement to produce representative prices in challenging and opaque markets
- Back colleagues up on their pricing patches when necessary and peer review and editor approve their prices to ensure processes have been duly followed and editorial judgement correctly applied
- Travel to attend report on and present at events and webinars and chair panel discussions when deemed appropriate by editors on behalf of the company
- Take responsibility for key aspects of projects to launch new prices and promote current prices. Engage in and lead detailed formal discussion of specifications internally and externally as part of specification reviews; take initiative by challenging processes; suggest and deliver improvements to current offering
- Support the whole teams editorial processes. Mentor and coach other reporters where requested by editors or as opportunities arise to share knowledge and foster growth in the team
- Take ownership and be authoritative within your markets: organize and chair meetings internally where a collaborative approach to pricing news etc would achieve better results than working independently
Key interfaces
- Work within the global team to develop prices news and market commentary.
- Reports to regional editor
Qualifications :
We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were 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.
If you are openminded curious resilient solutionsoriented and committed to promoting equality then read on...
KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fastpaced 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 another language is helpful but not required
- Crossmarket knowledge of a number of market beats required with deep expertise and reach evident in at least one market
- The skill and capacity to take part in and lead detailed specification reviews delivering on all compliance standards
- Team player who fosters excellent working culture and acts both internally and externally in a courteous and professional manner with impeccable integrity
- General desire to expand market knowledge and commitment to join in projects and take part in training courses
- Ability and confidence to present in a professional manner at industry events
- Confidence to take ownership and provide leadership within a team working on projects
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to take initiative to cover stories develop price offering and to communicate this offering professionally to market participants
- Strong networking skills and a good confident telephone manner. It needs discipline and dynamism
- Practical experience in PRA journalism and writing is necessary for this role
- Experience working with numbers and spreadsheets and producing regular market reports and insightful editorial copy required
- Experience speaking to an audience on panels webinars or delivering presentations to external parties
- Experience delivering market consultations or launching and developing prices ideal
- An interest in and understanding of financial markets or commodities is needed.
- Full training in specific market factors will be provided over a period of one month after which the senior reporter should be able to discover and assess prices competently and accurately in line with company standards.
If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information :
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its 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 theyre 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 customercentric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.
Youve read a little about us now its over to you!
If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.
Its 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 youre great.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
