Corporate Development Manager

Carbon Clean; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private Healthcare

Health Cash Plan

Life Insurance

Wellbeing programmes

Company pension 5%

Green travel schemes

Training budget

Funding for qualifications

Job summary

Carbon Clean is seeking a Corporate Development Manager to lead capital formation, partnerships and inorganic growth. You will build robust financial models, prepare investor materials, and coordinate due diligence across multiple funding rounds and strategic initiatives.

You will collaborate with the VP and executive team, translating data into decision-ready insights and guiding ownership of valuation, structuring, and transaction execution.

Qualifications

• Background in corporate development, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity/infrastructure, or transactional FP&A with funding, transactions, or strategic analysis.
• Experience in energy transition, industrials, or infrastructure; exposure to carbon capture or decarbonisation economics is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of capital raising processes, investor materials, diligence coordination, and external adviser collaboration.
• Advanced financial modelling across projects and corporate finance with scenario/sensitivity analysis.

Responsibilities

• Execute corporate development initiatives across funding, strategy, and transactions.
• Prepare investor, board, and transaction materials (IMs, presentations, supporting analysis).
• Support funder relationships by tracking inbound interest and informing engagement strategy.
• Co-develop investment cases across financing structures, partnerships, and M&A opportunities.
• Manage data rooms and coordinate diligence processes.
• Partner with banks, legal, and consultants on models, structures, and financing vehicles.
• Lead M&A/inorganic analysis, including valuation and diligence.

Skills

Capital raising

Financial modelling

M&A

Strategic partnerships

Investor materials

Due diligence

Valuation

JV analysis

FP&A

Scenario analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

MBA preferred

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SQL

CapIQ

Job description

Our journey from start-up to global leader in industrial Carbon Capture

Carbon Clean has been developing and providing carbon capture solutions since around 2009. Over the years, we have grown our expertise and technology, including the Cyclone CC system, to help industries reduce carbon emissions more efficiently. In the next phase of our growth, we are seeking an impactful Corporate Development Manager

Location (London) | Competitive + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits

The Role

The Corporate Development Manager will support Carbon Clean's capital formation and inorganic growth activities, contributing to funding rounds, strategic partnerships, and investment decisions. You will translate complex and incomplete information into rigorous financial and investment cases, supporting the VP, Corporate Development and the executive team with high-quality analysis and insight. The role manages core corporate finance work including financial analysis, project and transaction modelling, and product-level unit economics, while also supporting FP&A with modelling and scenario analysis, and Legal with shareholder analysis.

Success in this role will be defined by the quality, clarity, and reliability of financial analysis supporting capital raising and strategic decisions, and the efficient execution of funding and transaction processes.

Role Focus (First 6–12 Months):

• 50–60%: Capital raising, investor materials, diligence, financial modelling
• 25–30%: Corporate finance frameworks, LCOC, scenario modelling
• 10–20%: Partnerships and strategy support

Responsibilities consist of but not limited to...

Corporate Development Execution (Funding, Strategy & Transactions)

• Execute corporate development initiatives across funding, strategy, and transactions.
• Prepare high-quality investor, board, and transaction materials (IMs, presentations, supporting analysis).
• Support funder relationships by tracking inbound interest, mapping mandates, and informing engagement strategy.
• Co-develop investment cases across financing structures, partnerships, and M&A opportunities.
• Manage data rooms and coordinate internal/external diligence processes.
• Partner with external advisers (banks, legal, consultants) on models, structures, and financing vehicles.
• Lead M&A and selective inorganic analysis, including valuation, diligence, and clear recommendation synthesis.

Corporate Finance, Analysis & Modelling Excellence

• Build robust, defensible financial models across projects, transactions, and products with clear assumptions.
• Enhance modelling efficiency, automation, and data quality across Corporate Development.
• Provide analytical input to levelised costs, corporate planning, and strategic decision-making.
• Support broader modelling needs (planning, opportunity evaluation, JV analysis, proposition modelling).
• Translate complex analysis into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

Portfolio Advancement & Partnership Development

• Collaborate cross-functionally to maintain a deep understanding of project and opportunity pipelines.
• Identify and support partnerships across the value chain (transport, sequestration, utilisation).
• Build relationships across the ecosystem (banks, infrastructure/transition funds, industry partners).
• Support development of long-term roadmaps and investment recommendations for executives.

Team Contribution & Leadership

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and quality review across team outputs.
• Coordinate workstreams across analysts and associates while maintaining a strong individual contribution (~70–80%).
• Build strong internal relationships and organisational trust.

You are an ideal candidate if…

• You have a background in corporate development, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity/infrastructure, or transactional FP&A, with direct exposure to funding, transactions, or strategic analysis.
• You have experience in energy transition, industrials, or infrastructure; exposure to carbon capture or decarbonisation economics is advantageous.
• You have a strong understanding of capital raising processes, including investor materials, diligence coordination, and working with external advisers.
• You have advanced financial modelling capability across project and corporate finance, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• You can translate complex or incomplete data into structured, decision-ready insights.
• You have a strong grasp of project economics, key value drivers, and cost curves (e.g., LCOC) for capital-intensive sectors.
• You're comfortable working with large, imperfect datasets and forming robust assumptions; experience with data tools (including generative AI) is a plus.
• You have experience supporting M&A, joint ventures, partnerships, or other inorganic growth initiatives, including valuation and diligence.
• You're familiar engaging with investment banks, legal counsel, and consultants through transaction or funding processes.
• You're a clear and structured communicator, able to distil analysis into executive-level insights.
• You're highly organised, capable of managing multiple workstreams with competing priorities.
• You hold a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field; an MBA, CFA, CPA, or equivalent qualification is strongly preferred.

The application journey has 4 key steps

1. Recruiter call (initial 30 mins conversation)
2. Initial conversation with a Team member (30–45 mins)
3. Technical interview with another Team member (1 hour)
4. Final stage with the VP, Corporate Development and People team member, consisting of a case study, role-specific interview, and culture fit interview (2 hours)

This process should take around 3–4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to play a central role in Carbon Clean's capital raising and strategic growth journey, working directly with the VP, Corporate Development and executive team on high-impact funding and transaction decisions.

In addition, we offer you:

• The opportunity to continue to develop both personally and professionally, in our rapidly growing company.
• A culture that encourages excellence, ownership, flexibility and care.
• Our great workplaces with excellent facilities and perks, where we can come together to collaborate with like-minded colleagues.
• Our flexible approach to working – including our hybrid approach and days to work from anywhere globally.

We provide these benefits & perks:

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Private Healthcare for you and your family.
• Health Cash Plan to spend on specific treatments.
• Life insurances for your financial protection including Income Protection, Life Insurance and Critical Illness Cover.
• Wellbeing programmes including EAP trained counsellors.
• Generous company pension contribution of 5%.
• Green travel schemes including Cycle to Work & Electric Car Scheme.
• Individual training budget tailored towards your personal development.
• Funding support towards professional qualification and memberships.

Please note:

We are looking to fill this role urgently, so we can only consider candidates who can join immediately. If you have a notice period, kindly refrain from applying at this time.

We believe everyone Belongs @ Carbon Clean

We are passionate and committed to our people. At Carbon Clean, you will be working in an inclusive environment where everyone belongs. It's talent that matters to us, and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation and identity, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.