Director & Head of Energy Transition and Transactions, Advisory

Cambridge Credentials Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridge Credentials Limited seeks a senior leader to head the Energy Transition and Transactions Team. You will lead origination and execution, delivering financial, regulatory and market analysis for infrastructure investments and advising on acquisitions, disposals and capital raises.

You will manage high-profile engagements, coach junior staff, and build relationships with investors while guiding growth across regulated utilities and energy transition assets.

Qualifications

• Proven experience advising on transactions in Utilities and Energy.
• Regulatory and commercial due diligence or strategic/finance advice on deals.
• Experience managing infrastructure transactions with process understanding.
• UK regulated utilities knowledge and energy policy awareness.
• Established relationships with infrastructure investors.
• Ability to work under pressure on live transactions.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Proactive attitude and deal-sourcing ability.

Responsibilities

• Lead origination and execution for Energy Transition & Transactions.
• Provide financial, regulatory and market analysis for investments.
• Deliver due diligence and strategic advice on transactions.
• Advise on investments, value creation, asset valuation and growth.
• Support acquisitions, disposals and capital raising.
• Manage day-to-day engagements and ensure quality of deliverables.
• Develop relationships with infrastructure investors.
• Mentor and develop junior staff.

Skills

Energy transactions

Regulatory due diligence

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Client development

Financial analysis

Regulatory knowledge

Communication skills

Mentoring

Job description

Our client's Utilities and Energy advisory practice consists of circa 20 partners and directors and over 100 experts working for and advising major clients including many large utilities companies in the UK and across the world. They provide in-depth advice and support on strategic, financial, regulatory, and commercial issues across Power & Utilities, Transport, Telecoms & Digital, Social and other infrastructure in the UK, Europe and beyond. They also work closely with other teams across the firm to provide holistic offering to their clients.

Their work covers market and policy design, business and financial planning, economic and regulatory analysis, financial advice, project structuring and deal execution to enable private and public players to deliver, finance and operate infrastructure assets and provide utilities services to customers.

They assist our clients in preparing business plans, structuring and appraising investments, securing financing, benchmarking performance and managing regulatory regimes to help them provide best possible service to customers and maximise shareholder value. Our client is widely recognised by many industry stakeholders as market leaders influencing the future of infrastructure and utilities sectors.

The Utilities and Energy practice is divided into several teams and they are seeking to recruit a highly capable and experienced senior leader to lead their Energy Transition and Transactions Team of circa 10 people.

The Role:

As the Head of the Energy Transition and Transaction team you will be responsible for:

• Leading the team’s origination and execution effort.
• Leading engagements to provide financial, regulatory and market analysis to help infrastructure investors and corporate development teams identify investment opportunities.
• Providing commercial and regulatory due diligence as well as strategic advice on transactions, with a focus on regulated utilities and infrastructure, leveraging the firm's sector knowledge and specialist skills in finance, regulation, and benchmarking.
• Advising utilities on strategic investments, value creation, asset valuation and growth opportunities across regulated and competitive infrastructure businesses.
• Advising investors, lenders and infrastructure owners on acquisitions, disposals and capital raising, providing support and value creation strategies across power and infrastructure assets.
• Leading several engagements of different sizes on a day-to-day basis, with responsibility for the quality of deliverables produced for clients.
• Working closely with colleagues in other parts of the advisory business to develop and maintain business relationships with clients, in particular infrastructure investors.
• Contributing to the overall growth of the team.
• Providing effective management, coaching and mentoring of junior staff.

The projects that you will advise on will be high profile and varied, focusing on utilities and energy transition assets. For example, the team has recently provided:

• Strategic, regulatory and commercial buy-side advice on a large UK water utility for a consortium of financial investors.
• Regulatory vendor due diligence on a large UK water utility.
• Lead advisor to an infrastructure fund on an investment in gas distribution networks.
• Regulatory, market and strategic buy-side due diligence on UK electricity grid for a utility client.
• M&A advice on the sale of a C&I solar platform (jointly with our M&A team).
• Regulatory and strategic review of an energy efficiency company in Europe.
• Regulatory & commercial due diligence on a large OFTO.
• Advice to a global infrastructure fund on the future of gas market and regulation.

The person will have:

• Demonstrable experience of advising on transactions in the Utilities and Energy sector.
• Specific experience of providing regulatory and commercial due diligence and/or strategic and finance advice on deals in the Utilities and Energy sector.
• Experience of managing transactions in infrastructure, with good understanding of transaction process and execution.
• Experience of UK regulated utilities and understanding of the key aspects of the UK energy policy, water sector and economic regulation; understanding of Utilities and Energy sectors and regulation in other jurisdictions would be also very helpful for this role.
• Established relationships with at least some infrastructure investors.
• Ability to work at pace and during intense periods of live transactions.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• A proactive attitude and a will to succeed, with experience of finding and developing opportunities.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer that provides flexible working options such as flexible hours, work from home and so forth.