Deal Lead Quality

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 world’s 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:

Screen upstream gas and LNG investment opportunities globally

• Identify project opportunities available.
• Opportunities coming from internal screening, i.e. monitoring of the global market, reserves, possible expansions of existing projects.
• Opportunities coming from external proposals, i.e. through communication with gas & LNG players.
• Characterize the opportunities and prioritize them through set of defined criteria (e.g. Upstream potential, project maturity, quality of potential partners, project economics and local policies, identification of key areas pending to take FID).
• This position handles complex deal structures, with the development and interpretation of data used in a highly technical and confidential analysis platform.
• Assistance in the development of positions relative to new problem areas of situations and development of policies, programs and procedures are required on an economic mindset basis.
• Lessons learned and best business practices developed will be formalized into policies, programs and procedures to expand knowledge sharing within the organization and facilitate the successful fruition of subsequent analyses.
• Provide sound investment analysis advice in support of LNG and Upstream Projects for M&A deals, by leading economic evaluations and financial due diligence in the deal making process.
• Assess pre-FID projects and coordinate M&A task force.
• Coordinate M&A task force to collect inputs from different units (Upstream, IG Origination, Legal) to support assessment of pre-FID projects.
• Conduct negotiations with partners to finalize investment terms, and execute transactions
• Manage technical, financial, commercial, environnemental and legal due diligences.
• Manage external advisors on the assessment process.
• Identify alternative investments for International Gas. Explore and assess:
• Acquisition of stake in existing or FID projects.
• Development of an LNG venture from an early stage upstream play
• Acquisition of an LNG portfolio or a company.
• Support decision making at management level with reports on specific opportunities
• Lead the preparation of high quality management information to support decision making on potential transactions at both International Gas and our client levels.
• Provide documentation, functional assurance, and detailed reviews.
• Coordinate communication on LNG & gas opportunities across the organization.
• Ensure effective communication at every stage of the deal life cycle, understanding any issues and addressing concerns.
• Both within IG and with other business units as required.

Requirements:

• Candidate is required to hold a bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or Engineering.
• An MBA or other advanced Post-Graduate degree in MPA or a business-related degree is preferred.
• Candidate is required to have a history of career progression with fifteen years’ experience with a minimum of ten years of relevant M&A and business development, transactions, Gas & LNG work experience, preferably in a major petrochemical or energy industry corporation.