Social Infrastructure - Assistant Manager (Project Finance)

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Base Location: London and 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 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. Due to the location of team members you will be working with, this role can be based in London or Birmingham.

Why join KPMG in our IAG Team?

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.

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.
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. You’ll be:

Supporting delivery of client engagements
Managing input from internal teams and external advisers
Producing high quality documentation and presentations
Developing and updating financial models
Supporting business development and network building
Supporting proposals and pitch development for new business
Developing sector specific market intelligence
Any other duties commensurate with the role.

We are looking for an experienced candidate with strong financial modelling skills (preferably with experience in project finance) to support a rapidly growing business.
What will you need to do it?

Have strong financial modelling and financial analysis capability, preferably with experience in project finance modelling or similarly complex financial structures
Have working knowledge of financing structures and commercial considerations, with a focus on public private partnerships, project finance and / or joint venture models
Have experience of infrastructure projects or adjacent sectors, either as an advisor, investor, public body or lender. It is preferable that this experience is within real estate, government, or renewable energy sectors although this is not required
Have some familiarity with public procurement processes
Skills we’d love to see/Amazing Extras:

Have strong writing, Excel and Power-point skills
Be comfortable and/or experienced presenting to clients
Be interested in interaction and dialogue with companies, investors, internal and external stakeholders
Be an independent thinker with the ability to identify and contribute to solving problems
Have experience of working in small project teams
Have an appropriate qualification in accounting, banking, finance, real estate, engineering or similar, or alternatively credible levels of practical experience in one of these areas or in infrastructure delivery and development