Senior Economist

Mott MacDonald
Croydon - United Kingdom
S: Competitive

Job Profile
We are a £1.1 billion management, engineering and development consultancy with 15,000 staff and a global reach spanning six continents. Our network of 170 principal offices in 140 countries gives us local market insight backed by world class expertise to deliver excellence for every client.

Job Description
Working within a small team, your role and responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following;

- Seeing beyond the immediate project and develop relationships with clients at all levels and build further business
- Ensuring projects are set up and completed according to the Mott MacDonald quality assurance system
- Manage resources and coordinate specialist discipline input from the rest of the organisation as required
- Travel at short notice is/will be required by projects and/or business opportunities
- Prepare proposals, presentations and support other business development activities
- You may be required to work outside normal working hours to complete project deliverables

Some of the 'typical' projects undertaken for blue chip clients include:
- Due diligence
- Master planning
- Strategic studies including strategy formulation
- Market studies
- Feasibility and pre-feasibility studies
- Operational reviews and technical audits
- Conceptual engineering
- Lenders engineer / lenders technical advisor

Candidate Specification
Candidates should have the following qualifications/experience;

- Degree qualified (in an engineering/technical/economic discipline) and preferably with a finance/business masters
- 5+ years relevant post graduate experience in technical or management consulting or within an energy related firm or funding institution
- Previous experience of carrying out financial or economic analyses would be desirable
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the capability to communicate in another language a distinct advantage
- Self-motivated, diligent, demonstrating an ability to work independently and to tight deadlines, taking full responsibility for your own work
- Proven and demonstrative ability to coordinate projects and control budget
- Comfortable with uncertainty and incomplete information
- Familiarity with the oil & gas sector and its dynamics would be an advantage
- Highly IT literate with strong word processing, Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint skills

Job summary