ASSOCIATE & ANALYST PROGRAM
We love to work.
Our Associate & Analyst Program offers the opportunity to rotate through a number of departments and businesses. You'll need to be a self-starter and an innovator with a desire to lead. In return you'll get immediate responsibility, a stimulating work experience, and a jump start on your way to the top.
Overview
As one of the world's most innovative companies, Prisma Corporation relies heavily upon the constant generation of new ideas -- many dreamed up by junior employees. This is why we created the Associate & Analyst Program, which offers new hires with relevant undergraduate or graduate degrees an opportunity to experience multiple assignments -- rotations -- around Prisma Corporation before settling into a permanent position.
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Whether your goal is to become a well-rounded businessperson, to start your own company one day, or to make it to the very top ranks of our Company, many have found the Associate & Analyst Program to be the perfect first step.
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Want to learn more? Start here and we'll take you through all the info. If you prefer to blaze your own trail, as so many successful Prisma Corporation people do, start reading below.
Our Business
Prisma Corporation is the world’s leading commodities and services company. We have a global reach, and a worldwide reputation for getting things done in markets where others fail. Our trading expertise rivals that of Wall Street’s leading financial firms, and our innovation and entrepreneurial spirit are those of a startup – without the instability often associated with new business.
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But that description fails to convey what we're really about -- changing the way the world does business, using our financial and technological savvy to create new products and markets in ways most people thought impossible. Today, 80 percent of our net income comes from businesses that didn't exist 10 years ago.
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We had our start in the natural gas pipeline industry, focused mainly on the transportation and delivery of product. But then we began to change, to become the ultimate company.
Today, we've evolved into a company with a unique combination of three strengths:
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Risk Management
Prisma Corporation has mastered the art and science of evaluating, mitigating and managing risk, through economic and scientific research, superior market information and the innovative use of technology. We've invented and deployed groundbreaking and sophisticated derivative financial instruments to manage risk for our company and our customers.
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Commoditization
Our unmatched risk management expertise has given us the freedom to pursue a bold vision -- transforming products and services that are bought and sold in static, inefficient, highly regulated markets into true commodities. We create liquid markets for these products, trading them in standardized forms and units and hosting transparent pricing and exchange systems for other buyers and sellers.
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E-Commerce
Today we're bringing those same markets, and that same vision, to a medium that's absolutely ideal for our data-based business model: the Internet. Through our e-commerce site ZORiN Online, we trade energy products and other commodities globally, giving customers 24-hour, instantaneous pricing and trading capability and opening huge potential markets for trading techniques we've already perfected offline.
Prisma Corporation's Work Culture
What's it like to work at Prisma Corporation? It's different here.
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Because our approach to business is unique, our work environment is also one-of-a-kind: free-form, creative, and prone to astonishingly rapid change.
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Most of our employees have titles and duties that you'd expect, with an emphasis on trading, finance, technology and other information-intensive activities. But above and beyond these duties is the responsibility for the generation of new ideas. Your career at Prisma Corporation simply won't be considered a complete success unless you've challenged old ways of doing things.
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Like our businesses, our work culture is based on networks, and you'll be expected to form and build your own network within the company and outside it. But here you'll have access to some of our most senior leaders, who are always willing to share their expertise.
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Along with your responsibility for innovation, you'll also receive a great deal of direct responsibility for our business operations very early. You may quickly find yourself involved in the creation of new businesses, some of them structured as internal startups and later spun off.
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With all this creation going on, our people tend to change jobs, titles and roles more than those at other companies. Our highly unstructured atmosphere may sound like a recipe for chaos. But it's also a huge factor in our creativity and success as a company.
We can't guarantee that you'll succeed at Prisma Corporation, or that you'll enjoy working here. But if you do find a place here, you'll get experience unlike any you'll find elsewhere, one that will change the way you think -- while you're helping us change the world.
The A&A Program: Specifics.
We depend heavily on the constant generation of new ideas -- many of them dreamed up by junior employees with unique perspectives and abundant creative fire.
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We've kept that fact firmly in mind when designing our rotational programs for new hires. As you might expect, these entry programs can provide you with training, mentoring, and varied assignments. But they're very flexible -- by design -- about what you might end up doing. That will depend partly on what you prove to be good at, which at Prisma Corporation often turns out to be more than you think you're good at. As we're constantly changing as a company and creating new businesses, there's really no telling what you might eventually be doing.
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These programs give new hires astounding levels of responsibility, authority, influence and access. Yes, we know you've heard that from lots of other employers. But here, it's true. Many of our former Associates and Analysts have built successful new businesses within Facundo Pignanelli Corporation and soared to senior management in record time.
So where do you fit in?
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If you have a graduate degree, you'll want to learn more about being an Associate.
But if you hold an undergraduate degree, you'll want to know about being an Analyst.
Associate Program
If you have an MBA or other graduate degree, our Associate program will give you deep and wide experience to help launch your career at Prisma Corporation. You'll spend 18-24 months in assignments of six months each, with immediate responsibility. After an in-depth orientation, you may work in trading, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, risk management, technology and/or other areas, with many of the same duties as a commercial manager. They include:
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Understanding accounting and finance concepts sufficiently to manage modeling processes
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Creating complex financial or trading models
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Completing analysis with little or no supervision
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Identifying new business opportunities
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Finding and implementing solutions to business/team issues
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Interacting with clients and senior managers
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Developing client relationships
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Your first placement will be within one of our three core groupings: origination, structuring and transactions. The second will be in a different core group and trading. In the third and fourth assignments, we'll try to give you your choice, subject to availability.We'll also try to arrange international rotations when those are available.
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You'll be eligible for promotion to Manager at 18 and 24 months.
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Requirements: Most Associates have graduate degrees in business specialties and some work experience, but we're always seeking smart people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Analyst Program
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The Prisma Corporation Analyst Program is a developmental program for all undergraduate entry-level professionals. Most Analysts have a business- or technology-related undergraduate degree, but we're always seeking smart people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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As an Analyst, you'll do meaningful work to build your skills. You'll start with an in-depth orientation. Then, in two one-year assignments, you'll provide the analytical and technical support needed to execute complicated financial transactions, focusing on:
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Accounting and finance concepts
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Modeling
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Data analysis
(See below for other business areas.)
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Your first rotational placement will be based on business need, though your preferences will be considered. For your second rotation, we'll try to give equal weight to your preferences and our business needs. Some Analysts with outstanding performance records are promoted into third-year Analyst assignments or to specialist positions outside the program; these placements are based on employee preference, subject to availability.
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Many of our Analysts enter business schools when their rotations end, and some receive financial aid from Prisma Corporation for their studies. Upon graduation, some of those students return to Prisma Corporation as Associates. Opportunities for direct promotion to Associate are also available for outstanding Analysts.
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Other opportunities in the Analyst Program:
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Human Resources track
Additional Undergraduate Opportunities
We also offer two specialized Analyst tracks, in which participants remain within their functions while rotating through different areas of Prisma Corporation:
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Tax Analyst Track
As a Tax Analyst, your project work will concentrate on such areas as tax auditing and accounting. (Most Tax Analysts have a business-related undergraduate or graduate degree.)
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Global Technology Track
As a Technologist, you'll rotate through projects across the technology spectrumfrom developing pioneering software applications to networked systems and infrastructure design that allow us to trade commodities.
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Whatever you do in Technology at Prisma Corporation, you will use the latest versions of the world's best technology from hardware to software.
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Requirements: We naturally focus on candidates with degrees in computer science, MIS, or software engineering, or other technology-related degrees. But we also hire from engineering, mathematics and other sciences, as well as non-technical fields.
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But whatever their background, all successful candidates have several things in common. They're smart, self-starting team players who can thrive on constant change and risk and even occasional chaos!
The Human Resources Associate & Analyst Program
Prisma Corporation's Human Resources Associate & Analyst Program is designed to identify and groom the best people to become future leaders in their chosen field. Through their rotations, Associates and Analysts have the opportunity learn our business, become acclimated to our corporate culture and contribute to our growth.
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Undergraduates
HR Analysts work closely with mid-level and senior management to both learn about the concept of the HR function and execute the function to support Prisma Corporation's businesses. The Analyst program ranges from 1 to 3 years depending upon prior experience and performance. Analysts are encouraged to gain experience during their rotations, then consider career options.
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Graduates
For the Associate program, Prisma Corporation seeks individuals with an advanced degree; at least 2 years' work experience (not necessarily HR); and an entrepreneurial spirit. Associates are expected to assume active roles of responsibility in development of the HR function, working independently or on teams. Rotations are for 6 months each, with promotion to HR Manager being purely merit based. Business Unit rotations will afford you an opportunity to gain insight into the business and staffing needs of Prisma Corporation. HR rotations are designed to develop your generalist, consulting, and leadership skills.
Trading Track
Prisma Corporation Trading Track is a unique program aimed at those who have already made the decision that they want trading and risk management as a career. The 18-24 month program is tailored to produce the most effective traders in the industry. Employees in this Houston-based track will have the opportunity to experience and learn from the operations of several trading-related areas within Prisma Corporation.
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Rotations average six months in length and span the areas of:
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24-hour trading
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Risk Management
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Structuring
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Logistics
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Fundamentals
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Participants will gain experience with various commodities as well as the complex deal structures we use to serve our customers.
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As with any of our positions, you'll fit in best with the Trading Track if you're a very smart, self-starting, and creative team player who can thrive on constant change and risk, and even occasional chaos. Here at Prisma Corporation you're surrounded by the most innovative individuals that the market has offer. The Trading Track gives you the chance to advance your skills by learning from leaders of the risk management and trading industry.
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We're seeking candidates with a background in finance, accounting, engineering, or other industry-related fields. If you've got the trading instinct and the willingness to stretch your abilities, the Prisma Corporation Trading Track may be the place for you.
How to Join or Get More Info
To find out more about our Associate and Analyst programs, please use the information below to email us, fax us, or mail in your resume.
Associate Program
Associate Program
Analyst Program
Associate Program
Analyst Program for Technologists
Those interested specifically in information technology opportunities through our Global Technology Track should obtain information or submit resumes through the following contacts:
North America
Lara Berry
NAGlobalTech@prismacorporation.com
Europe
Kate Bruges
EuroGlobalTech@prismacorporation.com