Senior Research Analyst - Transaction Advisory
Senior Research Analyst - Transaction Advisory
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Job Description
Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables energy and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human intelligence. In an everchanging world companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. Thats why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth backed by over 50 years experience. Our team of over 2400 experts operating across 30 global locations are enabling customers decisions through realtime analytics consultancy events and thought leadership. Together we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.
Wood Mackenzie Values
- Inclusive we succeed together
- Trusting we choose to trust each other
- Customer committed we put customers at the heart of our decisions
- Future Focused we accelerate change
- Curious we turn knowledge into action
The Opportunity:
The opportunity This is an exciting opportunity to join Wood Mackenzies highly respected Power and Renewables (P&R) Research team focusing on global power market analysis modelling and transaction advisory solutions. This newly formed team is focused on delivering comprehensive tailored insights to support project financing mergers and acquisitions and investment advisory in the rapidly evolving global power and renewables markets. Wood Mackenzie is known for producing marketleading research and offering integrated indepth power curves and market outlooks. This role will allow you to directly support clients navigating complex energy transactions. We combine extensive data with deep knowledge of conventional fuels and renewable supply chains. By joining our team you will play a critical role in delivering highquality insights that influence key decisions within the power and renewable sector.
The Role:
We seek a dynamic and motivated Senior Analyst/ Research Manager to join a newly formed team that provides bespoke commercial analysis to support project financing and transactions across global power and renewables markets. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the foundation of a new service offering developing tailored transaction and valuation support solutions that will complement our existing subscription services and provide clients with comprehensive commercial due diligence.
As a Senior Analyst in the team you will initially collaborate closely with our research groups to enhance and refine our models and data laying the groundwork for creating a suite of transaction and valuation support offerings. Your work will be crucial in improving and advancing our analytical tools ensuring they meet unique demands from clients involved in highvalue power and renewables transactions.
Once the team and its offerings are fully established your focus will shift toward supporting the delivery of these bespoke commercial analysis projects. You will work closely with project managers to plan and execute the delivery of each project ensuring that all deliverables are of the highest quality on time and within budget. You will manage data and modelling tasks conduct indepth analysis and provide insights that directly inform client decisionmaking on transactions investments and strategic projects.
Key Responsibilities:
Model & data enhancement: Collaborate with internal research teams to refine existing models enhance data sets and develop new analytical frameworks to support the creation of transaction and valuation solutions.
Bespoke transaction support: Once established focus on providing tailored transaction and valuation support to clients including conducting commercial due diligence market assessments and financial modelling to evaluate investment opportunities and transaction risks.
Project delivery: Work closely with project managers to plan coordinate and deliver bespoke analysis projects ensuring all work is completed to the highest standards and aligned with client needs timeframes and budgets.
Client engagement: Provide actionable insights and recommendations to clients supporting key decisionmaking processes related to project financing mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments.
Crossfunctional collaboration: Work with various teams within the organization to ensure smooth delivery of services and seamless integration of market research data analytics and commercial expertise into the transaction advisory process.
Requirements:
Intellectual Curiosity & Collaboration:
Intellectually curious collaborative and highly organized with a strong attention to detail.
Focused on delivering exceptional client services and committed to continuous growth and improvement.
Qualification/Experience:
Strong knowledge and experience in power and renewables markets with a particular understanding of power plant technologies operations and economics.
Experience with financial modelling and valuation techniques and can effectively apply these to power and renewable assets to support advisory work on transactions and valuations within the sector
Work experience of 5 years with any developer consultancy/ equity research private equity financial institutions or another market/investmentfocused organization
Exceptional analytical/quantitative skills including experience in modelling or commercial analysis in power markets.
Comfortable working with large datasets databases and APIs and familiar with tools like Python SQL and Power Query to handle and analyse data
Experience in optimization models is an advantage as is experience of modelling or commercial analysis in power markets
Knowledge & Skills:
Proficiency in financial metrics and valuation techniques such as ROI IRR NPV and multiples analysis.
Understanding of the M&A process including due diligence deal structuring integration planning and negotiation
Understanding of market trends regulatory issues and key drivers in power sector
Communication Skills:
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Fluency in additional European/ Asian languages is an advantage
Knowledge & Skills:
Proficiency in financial metrics and valuation techniques such as ROI IRR NPV and multiples analysis.
Understanding of the M&A process including due diligence deal structuring integration planning and negotiation
Understanding of market trends regulatory issues and key drivers in power sector
Communication Skills:
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Fluency in additional European/ Asian languages is an ad
Career Development Growth opportunities:
We are committed to our employees ongoing growth and development. As part of our team you will have access to various career progression opportunities including training mentorship and the chance to take on new challenges to expand your skill set.
Learning and development:
You will be encouraged to continuously build on your skills through formal training programs industry certifications and workshops. We invest in your professional development to help you stay ahead of the curve in an everevolving industry.
Collaborative culture: You will be able to work alongside experts across various domains within the company which will help you develop a broad skill set and gain exposure to different business areas.
Mentorship and support: We provide mentorship and coaching to help you navigate your career path. Youll have the chance to learn from senior professionals and receive feedback to enhance your performance and reach your career goals.
Crossfunctional exposure: Through collaboration with different teams you will gain valuable crossfunctional experience that can open doors to new opportunities in areas such as strategy business development or leadership.
Focus on worklife balance: We believe career development goes handinhand with worklife balance. With flexible working hours and hybrid work options you can focus on your professional growth while maintaining a healthy balance.
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Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race colour religion age sex national origin disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc
If you are applying for a role and have a physical or mental disability we will support you with your application or through the hiring process.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
