Transactions Advisory Consultant

**Your Impact**:
Over the next decade the world will need to decide how to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. Fast paced urbanisation, water scarcity, energy security, digital proliferation, climate change and geo-political instability will significantly influence global prosperity.

At Jacobs we are recruiting a Transactions Advisory Consultant (Energy and Utilities) with significant experience in the delivery of transactions advice to enhance our service offering within the energy and utilities sector. In this role you’ll lead on the development and delivery of high impact reports and presentations to clients. You’ll contribute to continued growth by identifying, developing and leading business development opportunities including bids, proposals, capability development, and manage client stakeholder relationships to ensure buy-in to an agreed solution.

Our Transactions, Contracts and Commercial Advisory practice group provides advice and solutions to clients when they are considering investing in infrastructure assets, when these assets change hands, or when clients seek to manage and or improve the performance of their assets or their business.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:
To thrive in this role, you’ll be self-motivated and willing to challenge established practice. Excellent oral and written communication skills are key, along with the ability to collaborate as a team, and across strategic consulting. You’ll have delivered at least 5 relevant projects successfully, along with:

- A relevant degree in a numerate discipline e.g. economics, engineering, mathematics, business, operational research or a science, or equivalent relevant experience
- Prior experience in transactions advice (commercial and/or technical due diligence) activities, ideally within the energy and utilities sector
- Transactions advisory experience within mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
- Understanding of public-private partnership (PPP) and power purchase agreements (PPA)
- Advanced user of spreadsheets, including a clear understanding and commitment to modelling best practice
- Experience of producing high quality technical reports for public and/or private sector clients
- Knowledge and understanding of the energy and utilities market
- Project/programme management experience, along with an understanding of project finance
- Ability to form relationships and develop industry connectivity
- Experience within a consulting environment, or within a financial institution (e.g. providers of equity/debt to projects requiring project finance)

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business. This role can be based at any one of our London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, York, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dublin offices.

**About Jacobs**

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Pri