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About the Role

WSP Investment & Transaction Advisory is seeking a Senior/Principal Consultant to join their due diligence and advisory team. This role involves advising clients on strategic development in transport, mobility, and industrial activities, combining commercial, technical, and operational expertise to create value sustainably. The position is key to supporting clients at the forefront of the move towards a low carbon future on groundbreaking projects across the UK and Europe.

Responsibilities

Advising clients on commercial, market analysis and feasibility advisory assignments across transport, renewable energy and complex infrastructure sectors.
Leading the development of financial and commercial models that support business plans, market studies and due diligence reports.
Presenting analysis at client meetings and in public-facing reports, conveying complex commercial and/or technical issues clearly.
Working with the senior team to provide insightful responses to client requests for proposals and win work in new areas.
Leveraging internal domain experts and specialist consultants to translate engineering concepts into robust model inputs.
Undertaking overseas travel for projects, typically 2 or 3-day client trips for meetings or site visits.
Engaging in continual professional development support and training, including Chartered Management Consultant status.

Requirements

A self-starting approach.
Ability to quickly synthesize large amounts of information and new concepts.
Degree level education in economics, engineering or a similarly quantitative, analytical subject.
Comfort working with large datasets and/or programming languages such as Python or R and/or visualisation packages such as Power BI is desirable.
An interest or experience working across the transport, renewable energy and infrastructure sectors, particularly infrastructure investment.
A track record of working on financial and other analytical models for net zero, transport or infrastructure projects.
Knowledge of specialist modelling including scenario analysis or Monte Carlo analysis is desired.
Experience working in a leading consultancy or other professional services firm.
Experience in delivery of workstreams or elements of workstreams to tight deadlines.
Ability to communicate analysis in presentations and reporting to senior management audiences.
Strong spoken and written communication skills in English; additional language skills are desirable.
Comprehensive knowledge of all major relevant software packages (Word, Powerpoint etc.).
Expertise in Excel with demonstrable knowledge of spreadsheet modelling best practice.

Skills

Commercial analysis
Market analysis
Feasibility advisory
Financial modelling
Commercial modelling
Business plan development
Market study development
Due diligence reporting
Client presentations
Report writing
Proposal writing
Data synthesis
Python
R
Power BI
Scenario analysis
Monte Carlo analysis
Excel modelling best practice
Communication skills

Location

UK
Europe

Work Type

Hybrid working
Full-time
Part-time
Flexible working arrangements

Experience Level

Senior
Principal

Education Level

Degree level education in economics, engineering or a similarly quantitative, analytical subject.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy (work from home two days a week)
Health & Wellbeing support
Virtual GP service
Reasonable workplace adjustments
Gymflex scheme (up to 40% off annual gym memberships)
Comprehensive menopause support package
WSP My Hour (one hour each day for personal activities)
Option to purchase additional leave
Ability to use bank holiday entitlement flexibly
Supportive development and training environment
Mentoring
Chartership support

About the Company

WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms.
Our passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion.
With over 11,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
We have a global team of over 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

Equal Opportunity

We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.
As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
Please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.