Business Analyst -energy major -Gurgaon

Please respond to Raghav directly at raghav.mathur@abcconsultants.net
The telephone numbers are: Tel # +91 11 5239 3900, Direct # +91 11 52393937

The organization

The Client organization is the part of a leading international energy company that has expertise across the spectrum of the natural gas chain. Its activities span the range of gas operations from exploration to delivery to the customer. Active on five continents and with interests in some 20 countries, the group operates four business segments - Exploration and Production, Liquefied Natural Gas, Transmission and Distribution and Power Generation. India is one of the Client Group's six core geographic areas of operations. The Client is a major investor in the Indian natural gas market where it has been active for more than ten years.

The Client organization is looking for a suitable incumbent for its Business Analyst position to be based out of Gurgaon.

Position summary
To provide analytical support to Commercial Group in client office in Delhi including the following
Assess risks and identify key project drivers
Understand contract issues and incorporate into financial model
Comprehensive economic modeling
Structuring leveraged/ un-leveraged model
Interface with internal audience and external stakeholders (as
required) and present/defend outputs from the model
The Analyst is expected to be in touch with
Industry representatives for oil and gas sector specific information,
With consulting agencies for matters related to tax, insurance etc;
With financial institutions like ICICI for financing inputs
With rating agencies like Crisil, ICRA

Key deliverables
Create a stand alone, robust financial model for use by the
Commercial team (including detailed assumptions book)
Provide timely recommendation to Commercial group to meet external
deadline during bid submission
Provide output through sensitivity analysis for review of various
options

Principal accountabilities
The person is expected to develop an elaborate financial model for review of downstream project economics
The person is expected to be self sufficient to do periodic model
audits, check for model integrity, compare with similar model used by consultants / advisors
The person is expected to defend the recommendations that would
follow from the economic analysis in the face of internal review committee
The person is expected to understand and appreciate the client hurdle
rates and criteria for investment decisions and evaluate a business opportunity using the same.

Knowledge and skills required
A Chartered Accountant or MBA (with major in finance) with good
numerical ability. Having worked on a complex financial model (preferably in infrastructure sector) is a MUST, should be able to demonstrate proven hands-on, modeling skills, with minimal supervision.
Ideally should have prior experience of hard-core modeling of atleast
2 years (preferably in financial institutions or consulting entities).
Should have excellent working knowledge of Excel.
Should have clear understanding of modeling issues including
accounting and tax issues.
Should have clear understanding on modeling of economic and other variables and assess impact of these variables (including inflation, devaluation, energy price movements, etc.)
Additionally, ability to make presentations and effectively
communicate complex ideas / commercial situations through tools like PowerPoint will be a plus.