Fastmarkets Benefits Overview

Collect, clean, validate, analyze, and maintain data on critical minerals and metals supply chains. Monitor regulations and assess their market impact, map ownership and supply-chain relationships, support consulting projects, and automate research workflows using scripts, APIs, or other tools. Collaborate with analysts, consultants, project managers, and data scientists in a global research team.

Produce weekly price assessments, market commentary, news, and analysis for North American softwood publications and dashboards. Maintain industry data sources and contacts, apply published methodologies and IOSCO principles, edit copy, peer review assessments, and meet frequent deadlines. Represent Fastmarkets at conferences and events through industry outreach and speaking engagements. The role requires strong writing, editing, interviewing, numerical, and data interpretation skills, plus proficiency with Microsoft Office and Excel.

Prepare monthly management accounts, P&L accounts, accruals, prepayments, revenue reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, journals, and risk-and-opportunity schedules. Ensure accurate financial reporting, support Commercial Finance and Group Finance teams, communicate promptly with stakeholders, and provide audit schedules and samples. The role also contributes to process improvement and requires strong attention to detail, deadline management, communication, and professional accounting judgment.