Financial Modelling - Manager - Energy, Infrastructure & Environment

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services.

Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.

Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners.

We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.

You'll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you're supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one.

You'll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team.

Together, we grow, belong and impact.

Energy, Infrastructure & Environment Practice Forvis Mazars'Energy, Infrastructure & Environment practice is trusted by the world's leading investors and developers in the sector to deliver a broad range of services.

Within this practice, the Infrastructure Finance business unit provides modelling, model audit, valuations, training and advisory services to clients across EMEA and the Americas, from regional hubs in London, Paris, New York, Toronto, Johannesburg and Delhi.

As a financial modelling practice, Forvis Mazars delivers its EMEAmodelling assignments through a team which includes technical modelling specialists as well as people with broader sector and commercial experience.

We are known in the market for our world-leading proprietary methodology and have built up a significant track record globally with some of the largest investors across the sector.

We have a particular specialism in delivering complex portfolio models, often multi-jurisdictional, and alongside a breadth of infrastructure experience bring deep expertise across the energy transition space that we are looking to grow further.

Job Role We are now looking for the right person tohelp drive the business forward.

The right person would: be able to lead financial modelling assignments, both through proactive project management and by providing commercial and sector-based direction to a broader team of modellers; have excellent client relationship building skills, combining commitment to first-rate client service with the curiosity to understand the client's business; be able to interpret a client's requirements and translate this into a modelling specification that can be included in proposals and that the team can deliver to;

be committed to business development as well as project execution; have significant experience in the energy and infrastructure sector already.

The role requires technical proficiency with Excel-based models, but would not be envisaged to be primarily focused on coding work in practice.

Client and project management skills informed by strong sector knowledge are likely to be more important.

Professional Responsibilities Project delivery:
Manage a portfolio of financial modelling engagements in the EMEA region, from proposals through to scoping, development, review and delivery.

This will include:
Being the main day to day contact with clients, forming long-standing relationships which with help drive repeat business;
Financial management of projects, including financial forecasting, billing and debt collection, and reporting on their progress to the Director/Partner;
Ensuring the quality of deliverables to meet internal standards and client requirements, and ensuring that best practice modelling is adhered to at all times; and Leading, coaching and reviewing the work of junior modellers.

Where required, also help to manage modelling support in the context of transaction advisory work and/or valuation work.

Potential to help deliver modelling training courses from time to time.

People and product development:
Help to develop both our models and our team technically by ensuring that they are properly informed by relevant sector dynamics and a commercial understanding of what underpins the models.

Help to ensure that our models are visually effective and transparent to use.

Find solutions for clients to ensure we are meeting their needs, and use this to help inform our business development strategy.

Build broader market relationships and knowledge that will help to ensure that our models are up to date and informed by the latest market developments; help to build the culture of the team so that junior team members also become used to doing this.

Help to promote a general culture of learning and development across the team from one job to the next.

Business development and broader team engagement:
Active member of the wider team, participating in general business development and marketing activities and co-ordinating with other service lines across Mazars.

Participate in thought leadership, including public webinars and other marketing efforts.

Client development: broaden client relationships to help drive opportunities across other service lines.

Build your personal network across the sector.

Key Requirements The right…