ROLE
We are currently seeking a proactive, self-motivated, team-oriented Economist to evaluate growth and business opportunities across our UK business
Responsibilities
The incumbent will play a key role in delivering best-in-class results by:
- Providing economic evaluations as needed in support of investment opportunities across the UK with potential to support Africa business. These include, development, brownfield projects, decommissioning and other strategic options
- Presenting economic analysis to Joint Venture partners
- Participating in project Gate Reviews including the preparation of Gate documentation
- Providing support for project approvals, the Strategic Plan, the annual Work Programme & Budget and other key business processes (e.g. impairment & reserves reviews, decommissioning security agreements)
- Participating in Peer Reviews and proactively identifying any issues requiring an Economics Peer Assist
- Participating in economic lookbacks on major expenditures to assess value added and capital efficiency
- Completing other analyses and ad hoc projects as required
- Potential to support on some of the key planning processes looked after by the team
- An established petroleum economist with specific experience working on UK economic evaluations
- Exposure to G&G, Reservoir Engineering, Facilities Engineering and Planning
- Expert knowledge of the UK oil and gas fiscal regime
- Experience of providing economics evaluations in support of commercial analysis (tariff/cost share negotiations, Decommissioning Security Agreements)
- High level of stakeholder management and ability to upwardly communicate to senior leaders
- Strong economic modelling history with ability to review other economists’ work
- High level of excel knowledge and presentation skills
- A history of working as the economist within project evaluation teams
- Advanced Excel capability
