Social Infrastructure (Renewables) - Assistant Manager

Job description

Social Infrastructure (Renewables)  - Assistant Manager

Base Location: London or Birmingham. Plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

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.

Why join KPMG in our IAG Team?

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 and is looking for a high-quality candidate to support this growth, with a particular focus on low carbon energy and renewables sector.

What will you be doing?

The assistant manager role is a central part of our team, supporting our client engagement delivery and business development activity.

• Supporting delivery of client engagements alongside team members
• Managing input from internal teams and external advisers
• Producing high quality documentation and presentations
• Developing and updating  financial models and carrying out financial analysis of quality
• Supporting business development and network building
• Supporting proposals and pitch development for new business
• Developing sector specific market intelligence
• Introducing new ideas to the team to support with targeting clients

What will you need to do it?

• Have experience of infrastructure projects and adjacent sectors relating to low carbon energy (such as Onshore Wind, Solar PV, District Heat, Energy from Waste or Carbon Capture);
• Have a knowledge of financing structures and commercial structures used in public private partnerships and / or relating to low carbon energy projects;

• Be numerical and analytical, with an attention to detail.

• Have experience of Excel and financial modelling;
• Have strong report and / or  business case writing, use of Word and Power-point skills;

• Have experience of working in small project teams;

• Be comfortable and/or experienced presenting to clients;
• Have an appropriate qualification in accounting, banking, finance or similar, or alternatively credible levels of practical experience in one of these areas or in infrastructure delivery and development.

Skills we’d love to see/Amazing Extras:

• Be a highly motivated, ambitious self-starter, willing to take advantages of the opportunities this position offers.

• Be an independent thinker with the ability to identify and contribute to solving problems.

• Have some familiarity with public procurement processes.

To discuss this or wider Deal Advisory roles with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.

Our Locations:

We are open to talk to talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are:

• London Canary Wharf
• Birmingham
• Manchester

With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

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