Assistant Director - Infrastructure Advisory: Major Projects and Private Finance - Various Locations

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Assistant Director - Infrastructure Advisory:
Major Projects and Private Finance – Various Locations

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 as we respond to the UK’s infrastructure agenda and in particular large Government led infrastructure programmes. We are looking for a motivated and passionate Assistant Director (Senior Manager) to join us in our London or regional offices;
Manchester, Bristol or Scotland, supporting Directors and Partners in developing clients and identifying new opportunities.

We want you to support our vibrant business and support our teams 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 small and dynamic teams to provide expert financial, commercial and strategic advice to clients, both on transactions and financial strategy
• Developing and nurturing a network across the sector to support business development activity
• Helping our clients make informed and robust evidence-based decisions through option appraisals
• Overseeing and challenging complex financial models, including financing structures, affordability, value-for-money, sensitivity and scenario analysis
• Developing debt and equity competition processes, including lender engagement, assessment criteria, market sounding, term sheet development and financing documentation
• Structuring and advising on procurements, including evaluating bids received for projects on behalf of project sponsors and helping sponsors drafting bids for the provisions infrastructure investment
• Presenting impactful reports to senior client stakeholders to facilitate effective decision making
• Driving key business development activities, including EY’s wider growth strategies
• Leading and taking ownership of origination and sales
• Contributing to sector thought leadership and helping shape EY's perspective on the financing of major transactions.
• Building and maintaining senior client relationships across Government and the private sector.
• Supporting the development and coaching of junior team members.

• An understanding of project finance and privately financed infrastructure, including debt/equity structures, risk allocation, procurement models and investor/lender requirements
• An understanding of UK infrastructure markets, including regulated asset…