Associate, Geology - Global Investment Banking / Energy

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 200307

 Salary Range: 175,000.00 - 225,000.00 

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

 

Title: Associate, Geology - Global Investment Banking / Energy (Houston)

 

Global Banking and Markets 

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world. 

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.  

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries!  We work together to drive ambition for every future! 

 

Overview: Contributes to the overall success of the Domestic and International A&D team within the Global Investment Banking – Energy Division located in Houston, TX USA. Ensures specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

What You’ll Do 

• Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Responsible for the technical and financial evaluation of oil and gas assets (including but not limited to depositional environments, reservoir characteristics, base and upside evaluation, risk assessment, facility constraints and requirements, creating plan of development, developing economic assumptions) – with senior oversight
• Perform detailed review of evaluation inputs, ensure accuracy and reasonableness of any outputs and sensitivities
• Preparation and review of technical data room materials related to sell side and buy side mandates
• Contribute to portions of management presentations, including detailed slides with specific focus on geoscience aspects to both the base and upside cases in addition to overviews describing land and contracts, production, reserves, joint ventures, facilities, marketing, accounting, etc., and oversight of any related graphical drafting materials
• For business origination activities, help generate the technical geoscience portions of pitch books, and when required, attend client meetings
• Provide sound ad-hoc geological and geophysical analysis as required by senior bankers and clients
• Maintain working knowledge of industry activity and trends, commodity prices, and latest developments in technology
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment

 

What You’ll Bring 

• Masters degree in Geosciences, preferably with a petroleum specialty, or equivalent combination with work experience
• Highly motivated individual with 5 to 10 years of oil and gas industry experience at an upstream operator
• Exposure to a combination of both conventional and unconventional (U.S. and international) projects preferred
• Broad technical oil and gas geoscience experience (geology, geophysics, petrophysics, development / operations, reservoir, characterization, drilling inventory, recovery techniques, technological advances, risking etc.)
• Beneficial to have exposure to oil and gas acquisitions and divestiture activity in a prior role<