Senior Manager - Investment and Transaction Advisory Services

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Engage with government bodies, regulators, and private-sector stakeholders to understand their requirements and d evelop our pipeline of qualifying infrastructure projects.
• Provide advisory support across the full project lifecycle, including strategy development, business case preparation, commercial structuring, and, where required, post–commercial-close support.
• Lead the commercial assessment and viability of the proposed transactions to ensure viability and manage the risk to secure successful tender processes.
• Coordinate the development of pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, value-for-money analysis, public-private comparators, risk assessment and mitigation matrices, procurement models and evaluation criteria.
• Oversee due diligence, risk analysis, and financial structuring activities for a PPP deal.
• Ensure that PPP projects are prepared for competitive market bidding in such a way that all financial and risk components are adequately identified, quantified and allocated in a manner consistent with prescribed methodologies.
• Prepare investment memos for projects
• Facilitate and/or manage relationships with local banks and international financial institutions as well as with investors and governments.
• Ensure bidding documents are suitable for market issuance.
• Represent WSP in discussions and negotiations with key stakeholders.
• Assist with negotiations and award of the PPP contract
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams in Advisory services, Property & Building, Transport and Infrastructure, and Project Management Services business units — to deliver integrated, high-quality advisory outcomes
• Manage project economics, including collections, work-in-progress (WIP) status, revenue forecasting, invoicing, and related financial oversight
• Provide leadership and support to junior team members.
• Supervise the performance of junior team members, providing clear directions and regular monitoring and feedback on performance.
• Ensure the on-going learning and development of junior team members

Qualifications

• B.Sc. degree (2:1 and above) in accounting and finance, economics, engineering, management, policy or a related field.
• A professional qualification (MBA and/or CFA) is preferred
• Infrastructure advisory experience with a minimum of 8 years in the field.
• Relevant experience in the fields of infrastructure project development, structuring, project finance, syndications including hands-on experience in guarantees and/or equity transactions, managing due diligence, financial modeling, mitigating credit and other risks, negotiating term sheets and finance documentation and related project finance activities.
• Substantial experience in more than one subsector of infrastructure covering more than one region geographically.
• Track record of collaborating with local banks in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), international financial institutions and other development partners in the field of infrastructure.
• Track record of leading projects to reach commercial and financial closing.
• Recognized by peers and/or managers for providing high quality, pragmatic advice to clients on infrastructure PPPs and/or making significant contributions to analytical work and knowledge products in those fields.
• Client focus and commitment to results.
• High level written and oral presentation skills in English.
• Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
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