Commercial Advisor

About the organisation...

Amberside Advisors Ltd (‘AAL’) specialise in providing project finance consultancy and advisory services to public and private sector organisations. AAL combines market-leading financial modelling capability with experienced project finance expertise, and our services include commercial and financial advisory, refinancing, due diligence, model development, model audit and training. We have worked on more than 1,500 projects to date across a wide range of sectors and global locations, and our clients are well-known companies with billions of pounds of investments.
Part of the Steer Group since July 2022, we serve a global client base through 22 offices across four continents and take great pride in providing high quality advisory, customer service and insight into our clients’ projects. Our core industry sectors are low carbon, transport, decentralised energy, large scale energy and infrastructure, and we regularly advise on major projects ranging across heat networks, wind, solar and biomass, road and rail, schools and hospitals, as well as public service delivery contracts in sectors such as local authorities, healthcare, education and justice.
AAL are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity across our employees. In addition, staff wellbeing is a key focus for AAL, and annual events are dedicated to reconnecting with colleagues, welcoming new joiners and having fun together as a team. Furthermore, weekly social events provide an easy and enjoyable way to get to know your peers.

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.
• Executing projects and maintaining a review process to ensure projects are completed to a level that meets the high quality standards of Amberside Advisors.
• 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
• MBA/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 Amberside employee 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

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. As an employee-owned company, it means that our team are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and that’s the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry.

Amberside has 5 offices in the UK: London, Leeds, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester and Birmingham.

Amberside is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

We offer a competitive benefits package including:

• 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).

Compensation

Amberside is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fair, liveable wage. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account.

Amberside reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

Work Environment

All Amberside employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in the office or on-site with clients. An employee’s typical work week consists of 37.5 hours (Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be adjusted for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.)

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.

Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.

Ready to apply?  Just complete our brief online application form and attach your CV and covering letter.