JOB SUMMARY
Responsibilities will include a wide array of professional-level
investor relations accountabilities, working closely with members of the
CLR Executive Committee and reporting to the Vice President, Investor
Relations. Assign, supervise and manage investor relations functions and
projects. Assist with a variety of investor-related special events as
assigned.
DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assign, supervise and manage high-level investor relations projects
and related budgets, working closely with and synthesizing
information from all major operating departments (executive,
operations, exploration, reserves, legal, finance)
- Peer analysis - maintaining company peer financial model on a
monthly basis, create and distribute summary data/slides to a select
executive group
- Peer surveillance - real-time data exchange and analysis on peer
group -tracking acreage, drilling activity, EURs, asset acquisitions
and divestures, completion design, well cost and
quarterly results.
- Sellside tracking - review sellside financial and NAV models for
accuracy to street guidance and allocation of value per
asset group/region. Comparison of peer assets to the same analysts'
NAV (premium or discount per operator or acreage position).
- Energy commodity tracking – closely follow sellside coverage of
crude oil and natural gas commodity storage, macro supply/demand
data from third parties (CERA, IHS), refining capacity, utilization,
expansion and regulatory. Data to be shared with IR team and
hedging committee.
- Working with Financial Planning to track company's near-term and
long-term financial projections as approved by Board/executive team
and make changes to existing models.
- Pre-Earnings support - provide analysis of current investor top
topics and questions in current earnings season, and gather and
coordinate data in preparation for CLR's earnings call.
- Prepare documentation for distribution and posting to website; work
with executive management, Operations, Accounting, Finance and other
departments to develop investor information, annual reports, press
releases (including writing) and presentations; participate in
investor calls, meetings and conference calls, and other forms of
contact with investors;
- Manage special IR events, such as quarterly earnings conference
calls, investor meetings in the headquarters and on the road, annual
investor conferences, and one-on-one non-deal road shows
SKILLS
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Advanced skills in MS Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
- Proven team player
- Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate and defend
a position.
- Ability to work directly with executive management with short time
tables and very high expectations.
- High degree of attention to detail.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a finance, accounting or engineering required;
post graduate degree in business (MBA) preferred.
- 5+ years recent experience with valuation and financial
modeling required.
- Strong financial modeling skills in excel, ability to extensively
communicate, previous hand-on experience building, managing and
updating a financial model, and ability to provide summary data to
the most relevant points.
- Experience with exploration and production (E&P) companies,
portfolio management or investment banking preferred.