Job Description
Our Investment and Transaction Advisory Services team adds value to our clients on their major infrastructure projects by helping them understand and manage risks associated with their projects. We assist both our private and public sector clients develop strategies to identify options, obtain approvals, implement, fund and manage their major/mega infrastructure projects through effective planning, transaction structuring, robust value for money analysis, and effective procurement and implementation. For private sector clients, we assist them in a myriad of infrastructure-related advisory services including responding to alternative delivery opportunities through proposal assistance, developing financing/refinancing strategies, managing funding competitions and providing key capital markets advice.
The individual will be part of the management team leading our Investment and Transaction Advisory practice in the delivery of high-quality services to top-tier public and private sector clients in our practice by bringing his/her advisory expertise to the team. He/she shall provide expertise in project preparation, business case development, financial modelling, market sounding, project finance, blended finance and other financing tools or mechanisms to mobilize debt financing of large Infrastructure projects. This will be in a wide variety of sectors including mining, power and utilities, oil and gas, social infrastructure, transportation (including airports, railway, roads and ports), waste to energy, and water and wastewater.
Responsibilities
- Engage with government bodies, regulators, and private-sector stakeholders to understand their requirements and d evelop our pipeline of qualifying infrastructure projects.
- Provide advisory support across the full project lifecycle, including strategy development, business case preparation, commercial structuring, and, where required, postcommercial-close support.
- Lead the commercial assessment and viability of the proposed transactions to ensure viability and manage the risk to secure successful tender processes.
- Coordinate the development of pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, value-for-money analysis, public-private comparators, risk assessment and mitigation matrices, procurement models and evaluation criteria.
- Oversee due diligence, risk analysis, and financial structuring activities for a PPP deal.
- Ensure that PPP projects are prepared for competitive market bidding in such a way that all financial and risk components are adequately identified, quantified and allocated in a manner consistent with prescribed methodologies.
- Prepare investment memos for projects
- Facilitate and/or manage relationships with local banks and international financial institutions as well as with investors and governments.
- Ensure bidding documents are suitable for market issuance.
- Represent WSP in discussions and negotiations with key stakeholders.
- Assist with negotiations and award of the PPP contract
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams in Advisory services, Property & Building, Transport and Infrastructure, and Project Management Services business units to deliver integrated, high-quality advisory outcomes
- Manage project economics, including collections, work-in-progress (WIP) status, revenue forecasting, invoicing, and related financial oversight
- Provide leadership and support to junior team members.
- Supervise the performance of junior team members, providing clear directions and regular monitoring and feedback on performance.
- Ensure the on-going learning and development of junior team members
Qualifications
- B.Sc. degree (2:1 and above) in accounting and finance, economics, engineering, management, policy or a related field.
- A professional qualification (MBA and/or CFA) is preferred
- Infrastructure advisory experience with a minimum of 8 years in the field.
- Relevant experience in the fields of infrastructure project development, structuring, project finance, syndications including hands-on experience in guarantees and/or equity transactions, managing due diligence, financial modeling, mitigating credit and other risks, negotiating term sheets and finance documentation and related project finance activities.
- Substantial experience in more than one subsector of infrastructure covering more than one region geographically.
- Track record of collaborating with local banks in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), international financial institutions and other development partners in the field of infrastructure.
- Track record of leading projects to reach commercial and financial closing.
- Recognized by peers and/or managers for providing high quality, pragmatic advice to clients on infrastructure PPPs and/or making significant contributions to analytical work and knowledge products in those fields.
- Client focus and commitment to results.
- High level written and oral presentation skills in English.
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