Commercial Advisor
London

About the role...

As a Commercial Advisor, you will be expected to manage and complete projects to a high standard (with the support of management/directors), often as the client’s primary point of contact. You will be expected to provide expert commercial, market, technical/industry (including policy) knowledge and to begin to specialise and contribute to a practice area, whilst managing project resources (such as financial modelling consultants) collaboratively across teams.

Helping to grow and expand the practice area of Commercial Advisory, with particular knowledge of Renewables as an extension to our market leading decentralised/district energy practice, you will demonstrate strong client management skills, providing commercial advice to energy infrastructure transactions, developments, and projects (including public sector, investors, and corporates), and drive business development activities, including supporting adaption of business strategy in response to client demand, and external trends.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Managing several complex client engagements (projects and proposals) or components independently – consulting with colleagues where appropriate.
• Building relationships with new clients and understanding their needs, to generate and communicate proposals that are attractive to such clients
• Managing commercial aspects of an individual engagement to achieve desired levels of quality and profitability
• Providing technical knowledge on projects specifics to junior staff and feeding back any perceived knowledge gaps to senior management to deal with.
• Progressing to specialise and contribute to a practice area - developing and maintaining greater industry knowledge and continuing to demonstrate credible knowledge of economic, political and market trends; passing on pertinent market/client knowledge to senior management.
• Contributing towards creating innovative and repeatable solutions which strengthen business performance whilst maintaining strong client reputation.
• Managing scope and deliver timely and quality deliverables, with regular engagement communications with client.
• Communicating risk and issue early to appropriate colleagues (and client where appropriate).
• Holding/attending reviews on completion of projects to identify lessons learned and enhance future quality of performance.
• Where relevant, working on CPD to maintain professional status/ accreditation.
• Meeting deadlines throughout the AAL Performance Development Cycle for self, including seeking good quality feedback goal setting, providing input into engagement/ project reviews.

Requirements

Ideal Professional Experience…

Typical experience that we look for in our candidates includes:

• Experience of working in a commercial consulting role or commercial/development role within a corporate or investment company.
• Experience in delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects, preferably the low carbon energy sector, including the commercial development and financing of assets.
• Experience of project management, business case development, report writing, due diligence, risk and opportunity analysis.
• Client-facing experience in developing proposals and providing technical knowledge and expertise to maximise the value of the project for stakeholders.

Qualifications required:

• BSc/BA in business administration or relevant field such as economics, law, finance, sciences, engineering.
• BA/MSc/MA desirable but not necessary
• ACA/CIMA/CFA/IACCM/CMI/MEI or equivalent membership (optional)

About you...

You must be self-motivated, a team player and adaptable to your working environment. The role requires working to deadlines, prioritising workload and providing a high level of service at all times. In addition, you will be expected to manage complexity and be passionate about decarbonisation and infrastructure investment. In addition, key values and skills of an employee should include:

• Driving curiosity to solve client problems and respond to a challenge
• Belief that solving the world’s energy and climate challenges is something to which we should all respond – and the ambition to achieve this goal
• Passion for understanding the financial drivers for each project, combined with the intellectual and communication skills to help clients understand the impact of those drivers
• Confidence in using you own initiative and making decisions at pace
• Exceptional attention to detail, appreciation of financial models and an ability to translate this into a report
• Practiced at communicating complex information in a clear and concise manner – verbally or in written form
• Confidence in exhibiting role model behaviour in line with Amberside Advisors values.
• Expert user of Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint
• The ability to work and communicate as part of a team, and in an effective manner
• Skilled at coping well when under pressure from competing priorities and interruptions
• Able to apply research skills to solve new issues and make improvements

Benefits

Why join us

• Private medical insurance and health screening
• Life assurance and group income protection
• Annual discretionary performance bonus
• Company pension scheme
• EAP and mental health first aiders
• 25 days annual leave and ability to buy and sell annual leave days,
• Season Ticket Loan/ Cycle to Work,
• Group Share Incentive Plan,
• Up to 5 days for volunteering activities
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

For further information on this or any other related positions do not hesitate to contact Peter on 07881788772 or peter@huphuphup.com

Our industry knowledge ensures a unique, valued and specialist service. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community and offer every assurance that your application will be handled with the highest levels of professionalism.  For Further Information on Hup Consulting visit www.huphuphup.com