Associate Director - Renewables

Job description

KPMG UK’s Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) is a team of roughly 400 professionals and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading independent financial and commercial advisers in the infrastructure sector. IAG has locations in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester, but is operated on a national basis.

IAG provides in-depth advice on the strategic, financial, regulatory and commercial issues driving investments in infrastructure in the UK and internationally. This ranges from providing strategic thinking and advice to companies and investors to enable private capital to fund infrastructure, to working with the public sector to develop the business cases to enable projects to happen, and advising through negotiations that bring the public and private sectors together. We work closely with other functions within KPMG to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, valuations, tax, accounting, and due diligence issues.

Social infrastructure is a key business area for IAG and covers real estate (including healthcare, housing, education) and decentralised energy sectors. We have traditionally focussed on the development of new infrastructure but are also increasingly focussed on the retrofitting and decarbonisation of the existing built environment.

We offer services across the lifecycle of infrastructure project development, ranging from assessing feasibility of transactions, commercial structuring, business plans and business cases to support investment into new projects, financing and procurement advice, commercial assurance over the construction and development phase of projects and dispute analysis for existing contracts.

The business is expanding rapidly and is looking for a high-quality candidate to support in both the delivery of current projects for clients as financial advisor as well as growing the business in the advent of Net Zero and Renewables .

The Role

The associate director role is a senior part of our team, with day-to-day responsibility for leading our client engagements and business development activity. The role offers progression to director subject to building an appropriate business case.

• Leading the delivery of client engagements on a day-to-day basis;
• Building enduring client relationships including post engagement;
• Providing robust financial and commercial advice on financial aspects of a project;
• Managing input from internal teams and external project advisers;
• Identifying client needs and introducing new ideas and propositions to meet these needs;
• Producing and overseeing development of high quality documentation and presentations;
• Developing, supervising and review of financial models;
• Leading business development and owning a proposition;
• Leading proposals and pitch development for new business;
• Building sector specific market intelligence, thought leadership and insight;
• Leveraging industry expertise and network to create opportunities;
• Managing engagement risk, compliance and following procedures;
• Performance management, coaching and mentoring of junior team members; and
• Any other duties commensurate with the senior nature of the role.
  
  The Person
  The person will:
   
• Have a financial qualification of ACA, CFA or of equivalent;
• Be assured and experienced in a client and market facing role;
• Have significant experience of infrastructure projects relating to PPPs / PFIs from working with private and/or public sector clients;
• Have experience of and understanding of the renewable energy sector and emerging Net Zero asset classes such as District Heat, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen;
• Have deep working knowledge of financing structures and commercial considerations, with a focus on public private partnerships, project finance and / or joint venture models;
• Have strong report and business case writing skills and be conversant Microsoft office;
• Have strong experience of financial modelling and ability to effectively interpret outcomes;
• Be comfortable and/or experienced in presenting to a variety of stakeholders;
• Be an independent thinker with the ability to identify and solve problems;
• Have demonstrable experience of opening up and converting opportunities;
• Have a strong network and brand within the sector; and
• Have a go get attitude and a will to succeed.