This workshop will benefit energy project finance professionals from banking or operating organisations. The materials offered will suit those working in finance for development and exploration in upstream energy projects seeking to improve their practical financial modelling skills.
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Key topics of this Masterclass:
• The importance of flexible models
• Best practices and principles
• Sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, and error-checking
• Conditional formatting, and model protection
• Multiple facility models
• Uncertainty in cost estimation
• Excel functions for creating flexible models
About Your Masterclass Leader:
Dr. Michael Rees is an independent expert in quantitative decision-support and risk modelling. He provides customised training, model-building and associated project management services to support the decision- and communication-
Michael has a Doctorate in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Algorithms, and a B.A. with First Class Honours in Mathematics, both from Oxford University in the UK. He also has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD in France. He has studied for the Certificate of Quantitative Finance, graduating top of the course for on-going class work and also receiving the Wilmott Award for the highest final exam mark. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications.
Michael worked at the strategy consultants Braxton Associates (Deloitte and Touche) before joining Mercer Management Consulting (now part of Oliver Wyman) as a Partner in the Strategy Consulting Practice. He subsequently worked as an analyst at J.P. Morgan, before acting as the Director of Training and Consulting at Palisade Corporation for 6 years. He has worked independently since 2002, and has since then trained or consulted with over 2000 people in the areas of Excel modelling, risk modelling, and optimisation. Currently based in the UK, he has had the opportunity to live in several countries, and speaks fluent French and German.
He is the author of Financial Modelling in Practice: A Concise Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Level (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), which covers Excel modelling, financial statement modelling, valuation, risk analysis, real options, and VBA coding for practical applications in business, economic analysis and finance.
