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Working at EY UK

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Join EY-Parthenon as an Assistant Director in Infrastructure Advisory: Major Projects and Private Finance, located across London, Manchester, Bristol, or Scotland. In this senior role, you will lead dynamic teams providing financial and strategic advice on major UK infrastructure programmes, balancing flexible working arrangements with high-impact client engagements.

Requirements

  • Extensive practical experience within the UK public or infrastructure sectors is ideal.
  • An advanced professional financial qualification such as CIPFA, CA, ACA, CFA, or MBA is preferred.
  • Strong understanding of project finance, privately financed infrastructure, debt/equity structures, and UK infrastructure markets.
  • Proven ability to lead complex client engagements, manage senior stakeholders, and perform financial analysis and modelling oversight.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Project Finance Expertise: Lead teams in providing financial, commercial, and strategic advice on major transactions and privately financed infrastructure.
  • Financial Modelling & Analysis: Oversee and challenge complex financial models, including financing structures, affordability, value-for-money, and scenario analysis.
  • Business Development: Drive origination, sales, and relationship development across government and private sector clients.
  • Procurement & Competition: Develop debt and equity competition processes and structure procurements, evaluating bids for project sponsors.
  • Team Leadership & Coaching: Support the development and coaching of junior team members while fostering high-quality written and verbal communications for senior stakeholders.
  • Potential transition routes: People from senior financial advisory, corporate finance, or infrastructure consulting roles may bring strong financial modelling and stakeholder management skills, alongside meeting key advisory and sector requirements.

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: Major Projects and Private Finance – Various 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 on tackling some of today’s biggest challenges including decarbonising the economy, driving economic growth and promoting inward investment by advising on the UKs largest infrastructure programmes.

We are focused on growing our practice as we respond to the UK’s infrastructure agenda and in particular large Government led infrastructure programmes. We are looking for a motivated and passionate Assistant Director (Senior Manager) to join us in our London or regional offices; Manchester, Bristol or Scotland, supporting Directors and Partners in developing clients and identifying new opportunities.

We want you to support our vibrant business and support our teams delivering exciting projects which will stretch your skills and expand your knowledge. 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 UK public sector, delivering economic and social infrastructure that will underpin UK economic growth, sustainability and generational social benefit, and helping us to deliver our purpose of building a better working world.

Your key responsibilities

  • Leading small and dynamic teams to provide expert financial, commercial and strategic advice to clients, both on transactions and financial strategy
  • Developing and nurturing a network across the sector to support business development activity
  • Helping our clients make informed and robust evidence-based decisions through option appraisals
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EY UK

Assistant Director - Infrastructure Advisory: Major Projects and Private Finance - Various Locations

Bristol, London, Manchester
Competitive salary and discretionary bonus
  • Overseeing and challenging complex financial models, including financing structures, affordability, value-for-money, sensitivity and scenario analysis
  • Developing debt and equity competition processes, including lender engagement, assessment criteria, market sounding, term sheet development and financing documentation
  • Structuring and advising on procurements, including evaluating bids received for projects on behalf of project sponsors and helping sponsors drafting bids for the provisions infrastructure investment
  • 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 the financing of major transactions.
  • Building and maintaining senior client relationships across Government and the private sector.
  • Supporting the development and coaching of junior team members.
  • Skills and attributes for success

    What we look for

    • An understanding of project finance and privately financed infrastructure, including debt/equity structures, risk allocation, procurement models and investor/lender requirements
    • An understanding of UK infrastructure markets, including regulated asset models, RAB, PPP/concession and availability-based structures
    • Ability to lead complex client engagements, manage senior stakeholders and make sound commercial judgements
    • Ability to interpret complex financial analysis and challenge modelling outputs to support strategic client decisions
    • Business development capability, including relationship development and proposal leadership
    • Strong team leadership, coaching and project management capability
    • High-quality written and verbal communication, including board-level reports and senior stakeholder presentations
    • 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 practical experience 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.

    Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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    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.

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