Mining Industry Fiscal/Economic Modeler / Revenue Specialist

ProSidian Seeks a Mining Industry Fiscal/Economic Modeler / Revenue Specialist [541690 Contract Contingent] located in Cape Town South Africa to support an engagement for U.S. Govt. International Technical Assistance Program (ITAP) providing assistance on technical, regulatory, environmental, and financial management for national development on a range of energy and non-energy resources.  Key Areas of Focus: 1) policy, legal, and regulatory reform; 2) technical, operational, and economic analysis; 3) financial mechanisms and market creation; 4) economic mgmt. , transparency and fiscal policy; 5) environmental impacts and social and community issues related to resource development.  ProSidian provides technical assistance and training related to four Capacity Challenges:  1) TECHNICAL understanding of resources and new extractive technologies / techniques 2) FINANCIAL mgmt.  of revenues from the sector 3) LEGAL best practices for international laws and regulations 4) ENVIRONMENTAL protections for people and environment from sector impacts.  Typical country stakeholders include:  Govt.  officials (national, municipal, regional and village levels); Legislators; national, state, and local regulators; communities (inc. vulnerable groups). 

Candidates shall work to support requirements as a Mining Industry Fiscal/Economic Modeler / Revenue Specialist and provide industry technical expertise, experience, training, and support with Energy, Extractives, and Renewable Energy concerns to generate economic evaluations and sensitivity analyses concerning Mining Industry operations; provide potential income forecasts and negotiating information for potential Stakeholder Mineral Development Agreements.  Serve as a leading adviser to regulated businesses, economic regulators, law firms and investors internationally and maintain involved participation in a wide range of Mining Industry engagements drawing on our economics, finance, econometrics and accounting expertise.  Assist client stakeholders with the development, quality control, enhancement, and evaluation of financial modeling and valuation of energy assets.  Work primarily in the energy space, encompassing the entire energy value chain and across all energy sources but have particular expertise and experience in the Mining Industry.  Perform economic impact assessments and cost-benefit analyses; Competition assessments and compliance; access pricing, charging arrangements and tariff design.  Fiscal/Economic Modelers are often centrally involved in analysis and the preparation of formal written reports and presentations and are expected to be able to take responsibility for research and other gathering of information, managing and carrying out quantitative, industry and market analysis and report their findings in a clear, concise and structured way, both internally and to clients. In addition, this position will be expected to understand the business goals (growth) and capital strength and make strategic recommendations to enhance business processes and reflect strategic goals.

• Serve as leading Mining Industry adviser to regulated businesses, economic regulators, law firms and investors internationally. We have been involved in a wide range of engagements drawing on our economics, finance, and econometrics and accounting expertise.
• provide critical insight and expert reports in the context of periodic regulatory reviews, strategic decision-making, public policy debates, M&A transactions and competition cases.
• Perform financial modeling and valuation of energy assets and support regulatory and M&A due diligence;
• Design of price controls and regulatory frameworks based on established and planned regulatory and commercial strategy to develop economic impact assessments and cost-benefit analyses
• analysis and the preparation of formal written reports and presentations related to Mining Industry Economic Models and Revenue forecasts
• research and gather information, manage and carry out quantitative, industry and market analysis and report their findings in a clear, concise and structured way, both internally and to clients.
• Develop and apply bespoke approaches to solve complex, unstructured problems in a logical manner.
• Develop and implement advanced methods for Mining Industry capacity expansion modeling, including representation of investor behavior, market design, and power system operation across multiple timescales,
• Writing and publishing results of methods in peer-reviewed journals and/or technical reports,
• Collaborating with analysts working on other modeling teams to relate inputs and outputs across models.
• work with senior researchers to develop a Mining Industry modeling tools to incorporate investor behavior and wholesale market design impacts across multiple timescales into long-term planning decisions.
• The candidate would communicate their work through \ peer-reviewed journals articles and presentations.
• Analyzes and finds answers to a wide variety of commercial, economic, financial, operational, regulatory issues /questions in support of the development of international Mining Industry projects