Assistant Director - Infrastructure Advisory: Local and Regional Government - Various Locations

EY; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Training and career development

Competitive benefits: private health,

Diverse and inclusive team culture

Job summary

EY-Parthenon’s Infrastructure Advisory practice helps public authorities and private partners tackle infrastructure challenges with strategic, commercial and financial insight. We advise local and regional governments on complex programmes to unlock investment, drive regeneration and strengthen financial resilience.

The role targets a senior advisory professional with deep experience in UK public sector infrastructure, able to lead multi-disciplinary teams across London, Scotland and other

Qualifications

• Understanding of local and regional government dynamics.
• Knowledge of regeneration, devolution and financial resilience as key sector drivers.
• Ability to manage workstreams and projects within budgets.
• Demonstrated leadership and people management experience.
• Strong financial analysis, modelling and data interpretation skills.
• Sound commercial and financial judgment across transactions and advisory.
• Proven ability to draft high-quality client reports and documents.
• Confident, engaging presenter with ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfort with flexible, cross-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert financial, commercial and strategic advice to clients on transactions and policy projects.
• Deliver and manage complex infrastructure projects and programmes.
• Build and work with financial models and conduct sensitivity/scenario analyses.
• Create business cases with strategic, economic, financial and commercial evaluation.
• Support clients to improve financial sustainability of organisations or services.
• Present impactful reports to senior client stakeholders to enable decisions.
• Drive business development and support EY growth strategies.
• Lead and own origination and sales activities with clients.
• Contribute to sector thought leadership and EY’s policy perspectives.
• Build senior client relationships across local authorities and government bodies.
• Support development and coaching of junior team members.

Skills

Local & regional govt understanding

Strategic drivers in sector

Project & programme management

Team leadership

Financial analysis & modelling

Commercial & financial acumen

High quality report drafting

Strong presentation skills

Flexible working in diverse teams

Job description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Assistant Director – Infrastructure Advisory; Local and Regional Government – Multiple Locations

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

At EY-Parthenon, our unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, tax and corporate finance delivers real-world value – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity. With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI-powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, boards, private equity and governments every step of the way.

EY Parthenon’s Infrastructure Advisory practice advises public and private sector clients on transactions and broader financial, strategic, and commercial advice mainly related to infrastructure projects and programmes. We support government and private sector clients to tackle some of the UK's most pressing public policy and investment challenges, helping them improve financial resilience, unlock investment, deliver regeneration and infrastructure programmes, support devolution and local government reform, and drive long-term economic growth through effective place-based strategies. We are seeking a senior advisor who can help local authorities, combined authorities and wider public sector organisations navigate financial, economic and investment challenges through a blend of strategic, commercial and financial advisory expertise.

We are focused on growing our practice as we respond to the UK’s infrastructure agenda and the particular strategic drivers in the local and regional government sector. We are looking for a motivated and passionate Assistant Director in our London or regional offices; Manchester, Bristol or Scotland.

We want you to support our vibrant business and support our teams delivering exciting projects which will stretch your skills and expand your knowledge of these sectors. This is an opportunity to match your ambition. You’ll be part of a growing and dynamic team facing some of the most complex projects across the local and regional government sector, delivering insight and quality services increasing social value, enabling a more sustainable future, and helping us to deliver our purpose of building a better working world.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Working in small and dynamic teams to provide expert financial, commercial and strategic advice to clients, both on transactions and more broadly on policy projects
• Delivering and managing complex projects and programmes of work
• Building and working with financial models, including establishing appropriate data structures and undertaking sensitivity and scenario analysis
• Creating business cases involving strategic, economic, financial and commercial evaluation
• Supporting clients to undertake steps to achieve better organisational or service specific financial sustainability
• Presenting impactful reports to senior client stakeholders to facilitate effective decision making
• Driving key business development activities, including EY’s wider growth strategies
• Leading and taking ownership of origination and sales
• Contributing to sector thought leadership and helping shape EY's perspective on policy and market developments.
• Building senior client relationships across local authorities, combined authorities, government departments and wider ecosystem partners.
• Supporting the development and coaching of junior team members.

Skills And Attributes For Success

What we look for

• An understanding of, and interest in, local and regional government
• An understanding of the key strategic drivers in the sector, including regeneration, devolution and financial resilience
• Ability to manage workstreams and projects in line with contractual and budgetary requirements
• Team leadership and managerial skills
• Project and programme management capability
• Financial/data analysis and financial modelling capability
• Commercial and financial acumen
• High quality report drafting and document preparation
• Strong and engaging presentation skills
• The ability to thrive in a flexible working environment as part of a diverse and dynamic team

Ideally, you’ll also have

• An advanced professional financial qualification e.g. CIPFA, CA, ACA, CFA, MBA
• Extensive experience working within the UK public/infrastructure sectors

What We Offer You

• Flexibility and work-life balance
• Career development opportunities, including comprehensive training and development programmes, access to vast network of likeminded professionals
• Competitive Benefits Packages, including competitive salary, discretionary bonus scheme, private healthcare, matched pension contributions
• A diverse and inclusive team culture

We will fuel your ambition and potential with future-focused skills development that equips you with state-of-the-art methodologies and technology-enabled solutions. With more than 25,000 people in 150 countries, you will join an inclusive and empowering culture that values your uniqueness, prioritizes your wellbeing, and immerses you in the diverse thinking and cross-cultural experiences necessary to help deliver impact to clients across the globe and to help build a better working world. Learn more about careers at EY-Parthenon.

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EY | Building a better working world

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Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.