Capital Markets Financial Analyst

Job description / Role

Overview

We are seeking a Capital Markets Financial Analyst to join the Treasury's Capital Markets & Financing Department of Saudi Aramco.

The Capital Markets & Finance Department is overseeing global debt capital markets to identify opportunities and emerging trends in support of Saudi Aramco's global financing strategies.

Your primary role is to lead many aspects of corporate debt issuances ensuring that the group maintains ready access to financial markets to meet its expansionary requirements and working closely with senior finance management, banks, debt investors and credit rating agencies.

Key Responsibilities

As a successful candidate, you will perform the following:

• Monitor and report on developed and emerging debt capital markets activities with a focus on energy-related sectors.
• Assist in the structuring, pricing and negotiation of debt issuances under both conventional and Islamic structures including the renewal of syndicated revolver facilities and bilateral credit facilities.
• Devise hedging strategies to mitigate interest rate risk associated with long-term debt issuances.
• Work closely with legal and investor relations teams in the capital markets due diligence process including capital markets related documentation, preparation of information memorandum and investor presentations.
• Assist in the formulation and the implementation of financing strategies, policies and procedures to ensure group-level financial flexibility.
• Represent Saudi Aramco, as assigned, on joint venture financing projects and regular or ad hoc committees or task forces pertaining to financing matters.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate, you will have:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Finance, Economics, or Accounting. An MBA is preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a corporate funding role or experience leading a debt capital markets origination, structuring, syndication team.
• A financial certification such as a CPA, CMA, CTP, or a CFA is a definite advantage.
• Extensive experience in maintaining and developing relationships with banks, investors and rating agencies.
• Extensive experience across debt market products, including vanilla, securitization, hybrid instruments and liability management exercises.
• Solid understanding of international credit and rates markets dynamics. Excellent communication skills are required to work successfully with internal and external stakeholders.

Working Environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.