Evaluations Manager - Hilcorp International

Job Objectives:

• Lead the technical, commercial, and economic evaluation of international upstream opportunities.
• Develop and maintain integrated economic models incorporating subsurface, operational, commercial, fiscal, contractual, and financing assumptions, including production sharing agreements, concessions, royalties, taxes, and other complex international structures.
• Provide clear investment recommendations to senior management in coordination with Business Development and other multidisciplinary teams.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Working Manager responsible for the evaluation and economic underwriting of potential international upstream acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and other investment opportunities
• Lead integrated technical and economic valuation across all disciplines: including coordination of reservoir engineering, geology, operations, commercial, finance, legal, and External Affairs
• Build and maintain detailed cash flow models incorporating production forecasts, capital and operating costs, commodity pricing, transportation and marketing assumptions, taxes, royalties, production sharing terms, cost recovery mechanisms, profit oil/gas splits, carried interests, and other applicable fiscal and contractual terms
• Identify and quantify upside, key sensitivities, and value drivers for potential investment opportunities
• Prepare and present evaluations and investment recommendations to senior management
• Leads booking of reserves upon acquisition, including working with external auditors
• Support Business Development and Legal in evaluating and negotiating transaction, joint venture, production sharing, concession, and other key commercial terms, including modeling alternative structures and their economic impact
• Support identification and screening of future targets and growth strategies with Business Development
• Lead the technical and economic evaluation of data room materials
• Travel internationally as required for data rooms, management meetings, site visits, diligence, and other transaction activities
• Maintains employee confidence and protects corporate assets, including intellectual property, by keeping information confidential.
• Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional associations.
• Adheres to the company’s values – integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment and innovation.
• Supports company vision and mission.
• Adheres to established work schedule, attendance standards and is punctual to work and meetings.

Other Job Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• Ten (10) years minimum experience in oil and gas industry in technical positions of increasing responsibility
• Two (2) years minimum experience in upstream acquisitions and technical evaluations.
• Preferred: Two (2) years minimum experience in evaluating international upstream opportunities and incorporating international fiscal and contractual structures into economic models
• Preferred: Two (2) years minimum experience in Investment Banking or Private Equity
• Preferred: Upper-intermediate proficiency in Spanish (B2 or equivalent)
• Preferred: Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and automation tools to improve evaluation, screening, and analytical workflows
• Ability to accurately and quickly solve problems and make technical decisions
• Well-rounded upstream professional with working knowledge of reservoir engineering, operations, geology, geophysics, commercial, accounting, marketing, and fiscal structures
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across multidisciplinary internal teams and with external advisors and counterparties
• Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams with competing priorities and transaction deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical, fiscal, and commercial information into clear recommendations for senior leadership
• Strong organizational and project-management skills
• Ability to work through large volumes of technical, financial, and commercial data and synthesize findings into actionable conclusions
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including the ability to build and audit complex economic models; strong working knowledge of Aries or other upstream economic evaluation software

Education Requirements:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year university or college with a degree in engineering.
• Preferred: MBA or Master's in Petroleum Engineering