Decision Analysis Consultant

Overview

Decision Analysis Consultant role in the Chevron ENGINE Innovation team, providing decision and economic analysis consulting to support investment decisions and commercial negotiations across Chevron's businesses, from upstream oil and gas to LNG, midstream, refining and lower carbon.

What you'll do

• Provide direct Decision and Economic Analysis consulting to support investment decisions and commercial negotiations across the globe in all parts of the business.
• Support globally based Decision Analysis Consultants by helping frame opportunities, develop and refine decision and economic analysis models (ensuring accuracy and reliability), perform analysis, and develop communication materials.
• Apply key principles, processes, and tools related to Decision Analysis, Investment Analysis, Framing, and Chevron Project Management requirements.
• Conduct detailed economic and cash flow modeling, ensuring robust and insightful financial analyses.
• Update, adapt and build decision models, with limited assistance, of medium complexity for different fiscal regimes while applying good DA/economic modeling standards and best practices, including production sharing contracts (PSC) and Joint Venture Agreements (JVs); may require engagements with tax and legal departments.
• Lead framing and decision-structuring sessions, ensuring all relevant factors are considered and integrated into models and decision-making tools, utilizing a variety of framing tools and customizing the frame to specific opportunities.
• Effectively facilitate complex and vague engagements with multifunctional participants, including developing appropriate summaries and communication.
• Perform data elicitation, de-biasing, and coordinate information flow to support the data required for models, including multiple data sets to account for key uncertainties; proactively identify, communicate, obtain, QC, and facilitate alignment on information needed; coordinate information flow from SMEs and departments.
• Perform qualitative, deterministic, and probabilistic analyses to generate insights for project teams and decision-makers, structuring DA evaluations and applying tools such as cumulative probability curves, tornado diagrams and value of information (VOI) studies.
• Extract findings and insights and communicate them effectively, including presentations and project documentation, clarifying the value of the minimum investment required and the incremental value of enhancements.
• Participate in Decision Quality (DQ) assurance activities, including Model Reviews, challenging assumptions, inputs, values, trade-offs, and decisions when needed.

What you'll need

• Higher education degree in business, economics or finance, with an undergraduate degree in a technical area such as engineering (preferred).
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience, with 10 years preferred.
• Experience in the upstream oil and gas industry (ideal).
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word.
• High proficiency in Excel, including development of complex formulas and equations.
• Strong understanding of economics, cash flow modeling, tax, and depreciation.
• Capability to structure and manipulate data for analyses and apply decision principles and tools effectively.
• Good understanding of basic framing concepts and consideration of uncertainty and risk in analyses.
• Ability to synthesize complex analysis and results into clear insights for leadership discussions and decision making.
• Ability to identify problems, view them from different angles, and determine possible solutions.
• Ability to facilitate discussions and solicit inputs from technical and business functions, including engineering, scientists, legal, tax, finance and commercial roles.
• Ability to develop detailed action plans and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Clear and structured written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience and comfort using AI tools; developing agents.
• Experience writing complex formulas and equations into Excel.
• Basic knowledge of decision tree concepts and software.
• Exposure to analytical tools such as cumulative probability curves (S-curves), Investment Efficiency Charts, and Tornado Diagrams.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Chevron office).
• Standard working hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM, Monday to Friday, which may evolve based on operational or business requirements.
• Chevron is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position.
• Dynamic environment where assignments can vary and change on a regular basis.