Power & Utilities, Transactions: Assistant Manager

Job description

The Team

The Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG), a part of KPMG Deal Advisory (DA), consists of c400 professionals in the UK and is widely recognised as a leading independent financial, business and regulatory adviser in the infrastructure space. IAG The IAG provides in-depth advice on strategic, financial, regulatory and commercial issues driving investments in infrastructure across Power & Utilities, Transport and Social Infrastructure in the UK and globally. Our work includes market and policy design, economic and regulatory analysis, deal structuring and execution, as well as strategic and transaction advice to enable private and public capital to fund infrastructure.

Power & Utilities (P&U) is one of the largest business units in the IAG with c80 professionals. It encompasses work for large corporates in the sector (energy, water and other utilities), as well as financial investors and infrastructure funds. We provide in-depth advice on corporate finance and corporate financial management, regulatory finance, regulatory policy, business and financial planning, cost assessment and benchmarking, as well as transactions. We are widely recognised by many industry stakeholders as market leaders influencing the future of the infrastructure and utilities sectors.

Our P&U business is currently divided into several practices including Finance, Regulation, Projects, Strategy, Benchmarking and Transactions and is continuously expanding with consistent double-digit growth over the last 12 years.

The Transactions team within IAG P&U is in charge of selling our P&U expertise around transactions. We provide two main services: regulatory & commercial due diligence, and financial advisory.

The team consists of five professionals and has direct access to the expertise of the wider P&U team. We have a plan to double the capacity of the team over the next year. As such we are looking for high quality candidates to support our growth and development of existing and new service lines, while building on the work already undertaken by the business. Our team comprises people from different nationalities and backgrounds and diversity is an important element of who we are.

Services provided by the Transactions team include:

• Regulatory & commercial due diligence
• Strategic and market analysis for potential acquisitions and corporate actions
• Financial advice
• Financial modelling, valuations

The Role

Based in London, as an Assistant Manager in the Transactions practice in P&U the individual will be responsible for:

• Providing advice on large and complex transactions and leveraging the specialist skills across the P&U team (strategy/market/regulation/regulatory finance/benchmarking etc)
• Providing financial advice on transactions
• Originating transaction-related advisory mandates in the P&U sector
• Building a strong network to promote our services
• Contributing to ensuring that KPMG's quality and risk management procedures are completed to the appropriate standard

The Candidate

The candidate should have:

• Strong academic background
• Experience of working on transactions in utilities and infrastructure, either with an M&A or a Consulting background
• Detailed understanding of transaction process and execution
• Ability to carry out financial analysis on transactions including different valuation methods
• Ability to work at pace and during intense periods of live transactions
• Excellent presentation and communications skills
• Strong commercial awareness