Manna Butani

<p>Analysed Project Preparation Facility for GCF accreditation and helped FDN Colombia receive funding for its renewable energy project.</p><p> Researched on Climate Bonds and the Bahamas’ 2022 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and helped financiers understand the key objectives of the policy.</p><p> Mapped more than 300 EU-based private financiers in LAC across energy, NBS, and transport, verifying commitments and generating a tool that strengthened GIZ’s outreach strategy and supported private-sector project financing opportunities.</p>

<p>Directed a cross-functional Agile team, delivering 100% of quarterly objectives and building collaboration across engineering, finance, and operations; received special recognition from Asset managers.</p><p> Identified resource gaps and optimised workflows, improving efficiency by 0.45 FTE and enabling strategic reallocation of resources.</p><p> Led technical reviews, annulus investigations, risk assessments, deviation management and isolation planning across a 700 plus well portfolio, converting complex integrity issues into prioritised actions for operations and asset stakeholder.</p><p> Streamlined maintenance processes to maintain over 90% compliance, ensuring alignment with regulatory and corporate priorities.</p>

<p>Benchmarked operational performance across 17 global assets to support business case preparation and funding justifications for C-suite executives and help set targets for the next operational cycle.</p><p> Standardised and automated reporting processes using Excel VBA, Spotfire and Power BI, saving approximately 2 FTEs and improving institutional efficiency.</p><p> Designed an interactive financial dashboard (Power BI) consolidating budgets, accruals, and expenditures, supporting evidence-based decision-making for funding allocation.</p><p> Finalist in the Shell Energy Transition Summit, developing innovative energy transition proposals evaluated by senior stakeholders.</p>

<p>Supported production gap analysis and resolved data quality issues, delivering reliable datasets used in investment and resource planning.</p><p> Automated refinery loss reporting, reducing costs by 60% and manual effort by 35%, enabling efficiency in funding allocation and business case support.</p><p> Promoted to specialist role within 18 months for delivering data-driven solutions that strengthened investment reporting and resource management.</p>