Specific Responsibilities
The Marketing Analyst plays a critical role in supporting the Commercial and Marketing teams by coordinating the scheduling and nomination of crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs), performing market and pricing analysis, managing transaction economics, and ensuring accurate financial reporting. This position serves as a key liaison between Commercial, Accounting, Credit, Audit, Operations, and other internal stakeholders to facilitate the efficient movement, valuation, and settlement of hydrocarbon products. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a solid understanding of oil and gas marketing, transportation logistics, pricing mechanisms, and financial analysis.
Commercial & Marketing Support
- Support the Midstream and Liquids Marketing team in the execution of crude oil and NGL purchase, sale, and transportation agreements.
- Monitor market conditions, pricing trends, and industry developments to provide actionable insights and recommendations.
- Assist with evaluating commercial opportunities, contract economics, and market optimization strategies.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and analyses for commercial decision-making.
Scheduling & Nominations
- Coordinate and execute daily, monthly, and intramonth scheduling and nomination activities for crude oil and NGL movements.
- Ensure timely and accurate nominations with pipelines, terminals, fractionators, processors, and third-party counterparties.
- Monitor volumes, inventory positions, transportation constraints, and operational issues affecting product movement.
- Resolve scheduling discrepancies and communicate changes with internal and external stakeholders.
Pricing & Market Analysis
- Analyze commodity price movements, differentials, transportation costs, and market fundamentals impacting crude oil and NGL values.
- Maintain pricing models and support monthly pricing and settlement processes.
- Track market indices, benchmark pricing, and regional supply and demand trends.
- Identify variances between forecasted and actual results and provide supporting analysis.
Profit & Loss Analysis
- Prepare and analyze daily, monthly, and annual profit and loss (P&L) reports.
- Investigate and explain volume, pricing, transportation, and margin variances.
- Support forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning activities.
- Assist in identifying opportunities to improve margins and optimize commercial performance.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Accounting to ensure accurate revenue recognition, settlements, and month-end close activities.
- Collaborate with Credit to monitor customer and counterparty exposure and support credit-related decisions.
- Partner with Internal and External Audit teams by providing supporting documentation, analyses, and transaction details.
- Coordinate with Operations, Measurement, Land, and Supply Chain teams to ensure accurate transaction execution and reporting.
- Assist with compliance and internal control initiatives related to marketing and commercial activities.
Reporting & Data Management
- Maintain commercial databases, transaction records, and reporting systems.
- Ensure data integrity across scheduling, accounting, and commercial platforms.
- Develop and enhance reporting tools, dashboards, and process efficiencies.
- Generate routine and ad hoc reports for management and business stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Energy Commerce, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- 2–5 years of experience in oil and gas marketing, commercial operations, scheduling, trading support, accounting, finance, or a related field.
- Experience with pipeline scheduling, nominations, settlements, and commodity pricing methodologies preferred.
- Familiarity with crude oil and/or NGL marketing.
Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate and exhibit the following core competencies:
- Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
- Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;
- Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
- Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.
Company Overview
Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.
Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.
The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.
Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.
We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.
Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.
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Apache Statement on Hiring
To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.