Corporate Economist

Job Description

About our client:Our Client operates in the Oil and Energy industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Saudi Arabia. It has its branches spread to more than 50 countries, providing employment to more than 68,500 people all over the world. They fall under the Fortune 500 Companies. They are one of the worlds largest oil producers. They are constantly growing by creating new technologies through its Research and Development efforts and branch into new business lines through Investments and Acquisitions.Responsibilities:

• To strengthen the current team, DS&RMD are looking for a corporate economist with strong quantitative and financial modeling skills.
• The incumbent will apply microeconomic concepts and corporate finance to solve business problems and will participate in the development of financial models for project appraisal.

• Maintain a systematic framework for determining discount rates for valuation analysis and financial reporting purposes.
• Identify and assess key sources of risk and uncertainty that may affect the cost of capital and discount rate assumptions.
• Provide recommendations to management on investment decisions and financing options based on cost of capital decisions.
• Work closely with project teams and financial analysts to validate discount rate assumptions and ensure alignment with industry standards and best practice
• Participate in improving and developing the Economic Evaluation Guidelines and apply them in novel and innovative ways to a wide variety of projects, including sustainability, carbon abatement, exploration, R&D, acquisitions, greenfield projects, financial structures, and contracts.
• Discern future economic and financial trends from market data.
• Use forward-looking financial market data to calculate parameters for project evaluation.
• Collaborate with colleagues from various departments, including finance and corporate strategies, to integrate economic analysis into business planning processes and corporate decision-making frameworks.
• Undertake ad hoc analysis on issues related to economic analysis, corporate finance, and investment appraisal.
• In doing so, design and conduct empirical economic studies, test theoretical concepts and ideas with data and frame real-world problems in terms of micro-economic models.

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Management Information Systems, Statistics, Economics or related specialty, with strong quantitative focus
• Graduate degree in a relevant discipline and financial certifications (CFA, FRM) strongly preferred.
• Solid grasp of applied and empirical microeconomics, including industrial organization; econometrics, and financial economics.
• Self-starter with excellent financial and/or economic modelling skills gained through increasingly senior roles in quantitative modeling, ideally in the energy and commodities sector, an economic consultancy or a financial institution.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex economic concepts into clear and actionable insights for diverse audiences

Keyskills :
financial economics microeconomics Financial Modeling Corporate Finance Econometrics

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WhiteCrow Research

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