Director - Infrastructure Advisory: Major Projects

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Director
- Infrastructure Advisory:
Major Projects - EY Parthenon
- London / Manchester / Bristol / Scotland

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

At EY-Parthenon, our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, tax and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity. With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI-powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, boards, private equity and governments every step of the way.

EY Parthenon’s Infrastructure Advisory practice advises public and private sector clients on transactions and broader financial, strategic, and commercial advice mainly related to infrastructure projects and programmes. We support government and private sector clients on tackling some of today’s biggest challenges including decarbonising the economy, driving economic growth and promoting inward investment by advising on the UKs largest infrastructure programmes.

We are focused on growing our practice in response to the UK’s infrastructure and utilities investment agenda, including major Government-led programmes, regulated infrastructure, and water-sector alternative delivery models such as DPC and SIPR.

We are looking for a Director with strong project finance, transaction and regulated infrastructure experience to help lead our growth in project finance and water transactions.

We want you to support our vibrant business and teams in delivering exciting projects which will stretch your skills and expand your knowledge. This is an opportunity to match your ambition. You’ll be part of a growing and dynamic team facing some of the most complex projects across the UK public sector, delivering economic and social infrastructure that will underpin UK economic growth, sustainability and generational social benefit, and helping us to deliver our purpose of building a better working world.

• Leading dynamic and multi-disciplinary teams on major infrastructure, project finance and water-sector transactions to deliver high-quality financial, commercial and strategic advice
• Building, owning and expanding trusted senior relationships with clients, funders, investors, regulators and delivery partners
• Bringing senior judgement to regulated infrastructure models, including RAB, DPC, SIPR-style frameworks, concession structures and availability/payment mechanisms
• Overseeing and challenging complex financial models, including financing structures, affordability, value-for-money, sensitivity and scenario analysis
• Advising public and private sector clients on financing strategy, commercial structure, risk allocation and market engagement
• Advising sponsors and bidders on procurement strategy, bid evaluation, commercial positions and financing deliverability
• Developing and delivering debt and equity competition processes (in the private finance and regulated finance sectors), lender engagement, assessment criteria, market sounding, term sheet development and financing documentation negotiation
• Building and maintaining a high-quality opportunity pipeline, leading priority pursuits and taking accountability for converting opportunities into sustainable revenue growth
• Contributing to thought leadership and market positioning on private finance, regulated infrastructure and major transactions
• Coaching team members

What we look for

• Deep understanding of project finance and privately financed infrastructure, including debt/equity structures, risk allocation, procurement models and investor/lender…