Infrastructure Corporate Finance Manager, Power and Utilities Secto recruitment
You can help clients through acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, buy-outs, major projects, initial public offerings (IPOs), real estate deals, debt structuring and issuance, and complex re-financings, distressed MA and with business and company valuations and fairness opinions.
Globally, KPMG's Corporate Finance practice has an industry reputation for delivering forward thinking and objective advice for our global footprint and negotiation prowess, as well as an envied track record in closing successful deals. Together, our firm's Corporate Financiers have advised on or arranged critical and sensitive equity and debt transactions for some of the world's largest corporations, financial institutions and governments.
Job Description:
KPMG’s Infrastructure Group in the UK consists of over 50 professionals and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading independent financial advisers in infrastructure. The Infrastructure Group in the UK has won many awards including financial advisor of the year (Infrastructure Journal) . The group has locations in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester, but is organised on a national basis, operating under a single national cost centre.
We provide in-depth advice on the strategic, financial and commercial issues driving investments in infrastructure across transport, Power and Utilities, as well as social infrastructure sectors in the UK and internationally. This advice ranges from the strategic thinking and advice to companies and investors to enable private capital to fund infrastructure to the detailed technical skills required at financial close of a project. We also work closely with other functions within KPMG to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, valuations, tax, accounting, and due diligence issues.
The Power and Utilities sector is a key business area for the Infrastructure Group and encompasses work for a wide variety of clients including all of the leading energy and water companies in the UK. We provide in?depth advice on corporate finance, regulatory finance and strategic issues affecting our clients. Our work combines elements of finance and economics to assist our clients in structuring investment opportunities, maximising shareholder value as well as advising on financing, regulatory and commercial strategy. We are widely recognised by all industry stakeholders as one of the most innovative advisors influencing the future of the sector.
Our business is expanding rapidly and is looking for a high quality candidate to support both project delivery and business development.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the role will include:
- Preparing reports and presentations for clients. Strong report writing skills are a must for any successful applicant
- Preparing proposals for pitching for new business
- Building, testing and evaluating both financial and economic models with the capability to run key sensitivities
- Managing projects and escalating issues as appropriate
- Acting as contact/liaison point for clients.
The ideal candidate would:
- Have a track record of work experience in the energy sector (energy networks in particular), whether at a company, regulator, another consultancy or another stakeholder;
- Have a detailed knowledge of Ofgem’s RIIO regulatory regime and of its ongoing roll-out and application as well as wider energy policy debate including EMR, RMR etc;
- Have a knowledge and preferably experience with other regulated utilities in the UK, eg the water sector including latest reforms
- Have a sound knowledge of companies’ financial arrangements and structures e.g. gearing levels, types of finance used etc;
- Bring excellent report writing, Excel and Powerpoint skills;
- Be skilled in financial analysis, financial modelling and valuations as well as regulatory accounts;
- Be comfortable discussing economic and financial theory, with at least undergraduate and preferably graduate qualifications in economics or finance;
- Be comfortable and/or experienced in an external facing role;
- Relish the opportunity for interaction and dialogue with companies, investors, regulators and other stakeholders, and with a host of functions across KPMG;
- Be an independent thinker with the ability to identify problems and contribute to the development of solutions, helping us to remain at the cutting edge of thinking in the sector;
- Be a highly motivated, ambitious self-starter willing to take advantages of the opportunities this position offers;
- Have experience of working in and managing small teams; and
- Appreciate the chance to work on a wide range of projects and proposals simultaneously to demanding timetables.
Knowledge and experience of other regulatory regimes internationally would be a bonus as would language skills. Familiarity with Bloomberg and statistical analysis packages (e.g. Stata, E-views) would also be a positive.