Amir Athari

About Amir Athari

I am an experienced Corporate Finance Professional (FP & A), Economist and Data Scientist with a proven track record of formulating $billion-dollar corporate finance and investment decisions for tier 1 energy companies. I have more than 10 years of experience in Operational Research/Data Science in the domain of Finance and Investment Economics and 5 years in end-to-end Agile CI/CD DevOps Predictive Machine Learning and Time Series Forecasting. Including Visualization, Dashboard using Cloud PaaS, Python, SQL, Excel, and Power BI. During my career, I have worked with and for several top-tier organizations, including Equinor, Statoil, Norsk Hydro, CenterPoint Energy, and Ecopetrol. My achievements include: Ecopetrol: Sr. FP & A and Economics worked with Financial and Business Planning, Budgeting, Stochastic Economic Analysis, Portfolio Analysis, Investment Decision, and Reserve Booking. I designed, developed, and rolled out cashflow models and Power BI dashboards. Equinor: As Sr. Manager FP & A and Economics, designed, developed, and rolled out Predictive Models by leveraging ERP / SAP/ BI / Python / Excel system, resulting in savings of US$250M in future tax costs by long-term tax position planning for a portfolio of 60+ existing and future assets. Equinor: As Sr. FP & A Manager, delivered optimized workflow to enable business unit strategic decision-making capability and optimized expected portfolio return of upstream, midstream, downstream and exploratory assets worth $25B in present value. Equinor: As Sr. FP & A Analyst supporting business development, researched M&A targets and screened short list using SWOT analysis. Successfully led the valuation team to bid $2B US for Encana Co. GoM portfolio, acquisition of Spinnaker Exploration Co. for $2.6B and Brigham Exploration Co. for $4.4B. Key Specialties: • Financial Modeling & Business Planning • Investment Valuation • Data Science • Financial Risk & Control • Financial Analytics • Automation • Business Intelligence (BI) Architecture • Data Management ELT/ETL • Decision Making Process • Develop Financial ERP • Excel Modeling • Investment Economics • M&A Valuations • Machine Learning (including NLP) • Portfolio Management • Project Management • Power BI, PowerApps & Power Pivot • Risk Management • Quantitative Analysis • SQL • Statistical Analysis aathari424[at]gmail.com https://github.com/amir-athari

Experience

1. Regional Fp & a Manager

   Fugro

   Jan 2023 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Oversee the budgeting and forecasting process, including financial modeling, analytics, and strategic planning for Americas region.

Education

• UNSW

  Master of Science - MS, Fiannce

• BI Norwegian Business School

  Master of Science - MS, Business Administration and Economics

• Thinkful

  Data science Coding Bootcamp 1-on-1 mentor

  2019 — 2020