About the Role
This position provides strategic leadership and transaction oversight across major infrastructure, real estate development, and capital projects. The role leads complex project structuring, delivery strategy, commercial assessments, and transaction execution while working closely with government, private sector partners, advisors, and project teams. Acting as a trusted advisor across Infrastructure Ontario, the position helps shape project delivery approaches, resolve complex issues, and drive successful project outcomes from concept through implementation.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior project-level leadership on commercial issues across multiple sectors, ensuring consistent commercial management approaches.
- Structure transactions by integrating innovation, market intelligence, and lessons learned to optimize project outcomes.
- Lead project transaction execution from a commercial and financial perspective, including design and execution of financial and commercial evaluations and other due diligence.
- Lead program-wide strategic issues from a commercial perspective, including reviews of approaches to contract security, delivery model analysis, and commercial design to integrate policy directives.
- Develop and disseminate best practices through participation in industry associations, panels, and creation of educational materials.
- Collaborate with technical, legal, financial, and costing experts to implement commercial concepts aligned with IO’s delivery strategies.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading transaction structuring in infrastructure, project finance or related fields.
- Advanced knowledge of infrastructure delivery models, project finance, business case development, and financial analysis methodologies.
- Strong commercial judgment with experience assessing the interplay between commercial structures and risk profiles, negotiating complex commercial and financial terms, and resolving major project claims.
- Ability to develop commercially sound recommendations requiring multi-dimensional consideration.
- Demonstrated ability to work across government, senior executives, and private-sector proponent teams.
- Leadership capability to coach and mentor team members in a collaborative environment.
Skills
- Project finance
- Business case development
- Financial analysis
- Commercial judgment
- Negotiation
- Risk assessment
- Team leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
Location
- 1 Dundas St West
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Finance-related education
- CFA
- MBA
- Economics
- Accounting
Salary/Compensations
- $128,000 to $155,000
Benefits
- Defined Contribution Pension Plan
- Group Retirement Savings Plan
- Group Tax Free Savings Account
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, out-of-country care, paramedical services coverage
- Pregnancy and parental leave program with salary top-up
- $1000 Healthcare Spending Account
- Lifestyle Account
- Support for professional development opportunities
- Coverage for up to two membership and licence fees per year
- Virtual healthcare options
About the Company
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO), an Ontario crown corporation, provides a wide range of services to support the Ontario government’s initiative to modernize and maximize the value of public infrastructure and realty.
- IO has been recognized domestically and internationally for the way it does business and the success it has had with its major projects, real estate services, infrastructure lending, commercial projects, and development mandate.
- IO delivers some of the most complex, ambitious commercial and land development solutions for the Province and continues to evolve and expand its capabilities to maximize its public impact and deliver on its vision of creating a connected, modern and competitive Ontario.
Equal Opportunity
- Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging and represents and reflects the needs of the communities we serve.
- We encourage applications from all walks of life.
- Let us know if you require any accommodations for the selection process, by contacting the Talent Acquisition Team.
- Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience will be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.
