Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP Investment & Transaction Advisory focuses on advising clients on the strategic development of transport, mobility and industrial activities. We combine commercial, technical and operational expertise to create more value for our clients in a sustainable way. Many of our clients are at the forefront of the move towards a low carbon future, and we are working on a number of groundbreaking projects across the UK and Europe.

We are recruiting a Senior/Principal Consultant to play a significant role in the future success of our due diligence and wider advisory team. You will work with infrastructure investors, lenders, international finance corporations and financial advisors.

Your role will involve:
- Advising clients on commercial, market analysis and feasibility advisory assignments across transport, renewable energy and complex infrastructure sectors.
- Leading the development of financial and commercial models that support business plans, market studies and due diligence reports which inform significant financial investment or policy decisions.
- Presenting analysis at client meetings and within public facing reports, conveying complex commercial and/or technical issues clearly and concisely.
- Working with our senior team to provide insightful responses to client requests for proposals and continue to win work in new areas on complex transactions and cutting-edge policy development.
- Leveraging the 60,000 strong internal domain experts and specialist consultants to translate engineering concepts into robust model inputs and find answers to complex problems.
- Possibility of overseas travel for projects, typically 2 or 3 day client trips for kick-off meetings, site visits and/or final presentations.
- Continual professional development support and training, including Chartered Management Consultant status.

Our Team
The Investment & Transaction Advisory team has a strong track record supporting clients at early project stages such as feasibility plans, market forecasts and technical assessment of complex projects. Our key clients include financial institutions (pension funds, investors and financiers), operators (ports, rail, buses, highways and mobility) and wider industry.

The Advisory team is diversifying from a strong transport client base and has developed expertise in new sectors including industrial clients, major government programmes (e.g. Port Infrastructure Fund, UK Freeports), mobility and core+ sectors. We are involved from project origination through to completion, asset optimisation, modernisation and/or expansion of existing facilities.

Our front-end consultancy is supported by 60,000+ technical specialists globally. Our services include transaction services (including PPP), investment advisory, market studies, demand forecasting, technical and financial feasibility and management consultancy.

Experience
- Proven self-starting approach with ability to quickly synthesise large amounts of information and new concepts.
- Experience working on financial and analytical models for net zero, transport or infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of specialist modelling techniques including scenario analysis or Monte Carlo analysis is desirable.
- Experience working in a leading consultancy or professional services firm.
- Proven ability to deliver workstreams or elements of workstreams to tight deadlines.
- Comfortable working with large datasets and/or programming languages such as Python or R and/or visualisation packages such as Power BI is desirable.

About you
- Degree level education in economics, engineering or a similarly quantitative, analytical subject.
- Interest or experience across transport, renewable energy and infrastructure sectors, particularly infrastructure investment.
- Strong spoken and written communication skills in English; additional language skills are desirable.
- Ability to communicate analysis effectively in presentations and reports to senior management audiences.

Qualifications
- Comprehensive knowledge of all major relevant software packages (Word, PowerPoint etc.) and expert-level Excel skills with demonstrable knowledge of spreadsheet modelling best practice.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.