Senior Consultant - Capital Projects (Commercial / Financial), Energy & Utilities
Senior Consultant - Capital Projects (Commercial / Financial), Energy & Utilities
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Job Description
On the back of continued success across our Energy & Utilities practice we are looking for talented people to join our growing Infrastructure & Capital Projects team. We work very closely with all our clients build strong interpersonal relationships and pride ourselves on our ability to walk the talk. We provide strategic advice on all aspects of capital projects development and delivery including business case development commercial arrangements financial structures complex procurement advice and programme set-up. We are particularly interested in those who have practical hands on experience with infrastructure and capital projects and an interest in:
- Strategy financial regulatory and commercial issues driving investment in capital delivery and operations of infrastructure assets
- Delivery of major capital projects and change programmes
- Working across the energy and utilities sectors
While successful candidates will have a good technical understanding of their field deep specialism is not the only facet of PA consultants; we also want ingenious people who can turn highly technical detail into simple concepts and communicate this clearly to anyone from boardroom to factory floor. Our consultants should be able to adapt their style to work effectively with clients and inspire confidence. Were looking for someone with these attributes:
- Self-motivation and ability to manage their own workload effectively
- Creative and open minded enjoying learning and trying new ways of doing things
- Strong communication presentation creation delivery and document writing skills
- A great team member in multi-discipline teams
Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
Qualifications :
We are looking for talented people with hands on experience of the full project and programme lifecycle with a blended commercial procurement engineering delivery and supply chain acumen to help our energy & utilities clients solve some of their most challenging problems in the delivery of their major projects. If you can fulfil one or more of the following roles in our team we would like to hear from you.
Technical skills
- Project Delivery (capital and operational work programmes) in depth knowledge and experience working on capital projects and a strong understanding of infrastructure delivery models how they work in practice and associated business operating model/change requirements.
- Delivery Models a good understanding of collaborative delivery models to help drive value in capital-intensive projects including alliancing partnerships and other innovative delivery models and a good understanding of relevant industry-standard forms of contracts such as NEC.
- Commercial models experience providing commercial advise to public and private sector clients including Green Book compliant business cases helping clients navigate complex commercial arrangements implement new commercial models contract design and negotiation and commercial assurance.
- Procurement and supply chain management experience developing and implementing procurement strategies on major projects including market engagement advising clients on complex procurements and public procurement matters and supply chain management.
- Financing and Regulation understanding of key value drivers in capital projects including policy relevant regulatory frameworks financing investments and strategic business planning. A good understanding of alternative funding models available within the sector (e.g. PPA CfD RAB etc.)
- Modelling skills desirable is skills and experience in financial analysis financial modelling should cost modelling and design of payment and incentive mechanisms relating to infrastructure and capital projects
Consulting Skills
- High-quality outputs this means report-writing and presentation skills need to be strong (e.g. an ability to distil complex insights into easy-to-understand presentations and reports that could be understood across all levels of an organisation).
- Team management able to lead small (2-5 people) teams deliver highly complex and strategically important assignments. This includes day-to-day activity management project team wellbeing and management of risks and issues on the assignment.
- Analytics a strong logical and problem-solving mindset. Good working knowledge of statistics and modelling with Excel or other tools. Strong writing and authorship skills.
- Future trends an appreciation for new and emerging sector capabilities and trends affecting the acceleration of the energy transition. Able to form views and discuss wider topics with our clients.
We know the skill-gap and somewhat need to tick every box can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you.
Apply today by completing our online application
Additional Information :
Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams and support our communities to deliver insight and impact solving the worlds most complex challenges. Were focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Find out more about Life at PA here.
We are dedicated to supporting the physical emotional social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work give as you earn)
Were committed to advancing equality. We recruit retain reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age background disability genetic information parental or family status religion or belief race ethnicity nationality sex sexual orientation gender identity (or expression) political belief veteran status or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
