JOB OVERVIEW:

Commercial Analysts provides insights and recommendations on potential commercial opportunities, such as marketing and trading, acquisitions, mergers, partnerships and divestments, while managing opportunity capture and transaction execution.

They are responsible for executing and managing commercial and sales agreements, whether they involve products which require marketing and trading, or facilities, with tolling and tariffs.

This role includes: 

•    Keep up to date of market trends and changes
•    Identifying opportunities which includes assessing and screening opportunities
•    Determine business impacts of high-graded opportunities and provide recommendations on the way forward
•    Manage the execution and lookback on selected opportunities
Internal Roles

• Commercial analysts/advisors work with many other disciplines involved with oil and gas exploration and production.
• Gather discipline specific inputs for their analysis (e.g. prospectivity, cost/schedule estimates, production forecasts, and facilities limits).
• Work closely with legal and finance functions when assessing and executing transactions, to ensure business impacts are properly quantified, communicated and captured.

External Roles

• Market research and information providers through subscriptions and database access.
• Deal directly with potential customers (e.g. buyers, sellers, trading houses) and/or firms managing this on behalf of customers (e.g. investment banks).

Key skills:

• Problem solving
• Multitasking and time management
• Innovation
• Analysing financial data and models
• Networking and interpersonal skills