Associate Director - Transaction Advisory

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We are currently recruiting an Associate Director to play a significant role in the future success of our Transaction & Commercial Advisory and the wider advisory team. The candidate should have a broad commercial understanding in the social infra-structure sector. Water, power, and energy sector-experience will be major advantage. With extensive experience of working with infrastructure investors, lenders, international finance corporations and financial advisors. We would expect the candidate to have good knowledge of residential projects, schools, hospitals, roads, water treatment and desalination, power stations, wind farms, PV, and energy ... etc.

Specialisation in one or more sub-sector(s) is an advantage. The candidate will also be able to demonstrate good general technical, economic and regulatory understanding in the sector and have a proven track record in leading transaction & commercial assignments and managing teams.

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Your new role, what's involved?

• Leading projects and advising clients to provide integrated commercial, technical, and transaction advisory assignments in the Social Infra-structure, Water, Energy and other emerging sectors. Responsible for co-ordinating the production of business plans and due diligence reports, ensuring consistency and quality.
• Develop and manage relationships with existing and new clients. Pursue opportunities and lead the conversion into projects.
• Representing WSP at client meetings – the candidate needs to demonstrate a good range of client management skills.
• Leading the analysis and preparing high quality reports, conveying complex commercial and technical issues in a simple form.
• Coordinating project teams and assist with management, training and development of the wider team.

YOUR TEAM

The Advisory team has a strong track record of supporting clients at the early stage of projects such as feasibility plans, market forecasts as well as technical assessment of complex projects. Our key clients cover a wide range of different organisations in the private and public sectors. Key clients include developers, financial institutions (pension funds, investors and financiers), operators (ports, rail, buses, highways and mobility) and wider industry.

We are regularly involved from project origination through to completion, as well as during asset optimisation and modernisation and/or expansion of existing facilities. Our front-end consultancy is supported by 74,000 technical specialists globally. Our offer includes transaction services (including PPP), investment advisory, market studies, demand forecasting, technical and financial feasibility and management consultancy services.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Bachler Degree in engineering, with a master’s degree in project finance.
• Demonstrable track record of successfully delivering a number of complex and/or high profile social infra-stucture consulting projects in the last 5 years is essential. Water and Energy projects’ experience is a plus.
• Experience working in a leading engineering consultancy firm, or other specialist consultancy
• Experience in managing teams and co-ordinating delivery of workstreams to tight deadlines
• Strong spoken and written communication skills in English is required and additional language skills would be desirable. Arabic is a plus.
• Ability to develop client-facing relationships, with confidence communicating effectively with senior management teams of clients
• A comprehensive knowledge of all major relevant software packages (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.).

What's in it for you?

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.

As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including first class medical cover, generous days annual leave, and paid professional subscriptions.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.