Manager - Financing Group

Job description / Role

About the SNC Lavalin Group

SNC-Lavalin is a global fully integrated professional services and project management company and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure. Our teams provide comprehensive end-to-end project solutions - including capital investment, consulting, design, engineering, construction management, sustaining capital and operations and maintenance - to clients across oil and gas, mining and metallurgy, infrastructure, clean power, nuclear, and property.

SNC-Lavalin's Acuity is the end-to-end advisory business that combines extensive engineering and master planning capability with new structuring, financing and project preparation expertise in the Middle East and Africa. Together, as a global fully integrated professional services and project management company, we combine deep business acumen with engineering expertise from across the SNC Lavalin platform to help clients plan, design and enable major capital projects, and provides expert consultancy that covers the full lifecycle of projects. We build strong relationships by understanding the challenges clients face, sharing their vision and helping them transform potential into reality. Our world-class expertise at scale delivers value and our depth and breadth of capabilities sets us apart from the competition. Our specialized services can be contracted from niche tasks to mega projects.

The Financing Group of Acuity is continuously evolving and leverage on changing market conditions and will play an integral role in strategically positioning SNC Lavalin business in the Middle East. Acuity capitalizes on the Group's comprehensive skill sets to help clients ensure their infrastructure and real estate projects are bankable in the international markets through bespoke financial modelling, financial and commercial structuring, and support in capital raising.

Currently serving the Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific and Australia regions through two locations in Dubai and Singapore, the Financing Group is expanding its Middle East presence and is looking to hire experienced finance and investment professionals willing to be located in the Middle East.

About the Role

We are currently recruiting for a Manager within our Financing Group. The practice focuses on providing financial and commercial advice to its client to ensure their infrastructure and real estate projects are commercially viable and bankable in the international market, and understand the economic, regulatory and policy environments in individual markets and their implications for decision making. We also thrive to support our client navigate and make clear decisions on complex PPP processes and projects. We provide technical, commercial, financial and institutional support across sectors, from PPP Policy and institutional building to transaction Financial Advisory and due diligence.

- Our services cover PPP advisory.
- Economic modelling and analysis, feasibility and investment viability studies, business case development, value for money analysis, financial modelling, project financing and bid advisory.
- Drawing on her/his knowledge and experience, the Manager will provide commercial insights and creative solutions for clients, manage delivery teams and contribute to through leadership.
- The Manager will actively contribute to driving projects to completion and ensure that work is of high quality.
The Successful candidate will grow, develop and lead a team of junior and senior consultants and will align with our people pillars:

Win Work

- Develop and maintain long-term client relationships and networks
- Generate and lead new business opportunities and bidding
- Commercial responsibilities for further engagements with clients and/or market opportunities screening

Deliver Work

- Lead delivery teams
- Consistently deliver quality client services, driving high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget
- Monitor progress, manage risk and confirm key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes
- Manage expectations of client service delivery; including team management, client concerns and service analysis, implementation of solutions and reporting to senior leadership team
- Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business

People Building

- Demonstrate initiative for learning and development and demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and our clients to promote cross-learning and improve capabilities
- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff ((identifying training needs where necessary)
- Intellectual Property & Proposition Building
- Support the development of Acuity IP and market propositions
- Remain current on new developments in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.

SNC Lavalin's Atkins business is one of the largest multidisciplinary, multi sector engineering design consultancies in the world and is part of the SNC Lavalin Group.

As one of the world's most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies with a leading track record in the defence sector, Atkins are ideally placed to respond to this market. We have a broad establishment and proud, 50 year history throughout the Middle East region.

We provide a full range of design, engineering and project management services for buildings, transportation and other infrastructure programmes.

Atkins in the Middle East now employs around 2,000 staff serving Gulf clients across all market sectors from offices in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, and Sharjah.

Requirements

What We are looking for

The Successful candidate will:

- Have worked on developing and managing key client relationships and deal origination capabilities from securing advisory mandates to achieving transaction closure acting on government and private sector transaction in the infrastructure and real estate sectors
- Project Financing knowledge, with understanding of project financial modelling and financing markets, would be highly valued
- Understand economic or social infrastructure procurement and delivery
- Possess Knowledge of PPP/PFI, concessions and acquisition and project financing structures / contracts they relate to the infrastructure sector advantageous
- Possess Fluency in both verbal and written English
- Speak and read Arabic would be advantageous
- Strong commercial acumen and general commercial skills
- Excellent interpersonal and client management skills
- Good time management
- Understanding of economic or social infrastructure procurement and delivery
- Understanding of real estate development process
- Management and coordination of junior staff across teams
- Enthusiastic work ethic and willingness to learn new capabilities

To qualify the Candidate must have:

- A minimum of 6 years of experience in a top-tier advisory firm, infrastructure service provider, bank, relevant government agency or other relevant sector.
- University degree preferably majoring in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, Law or Engineering from reputable overseas and local universities. Ideally to master's degree level
- A high-performance professional who can articulate a value proposition, developing business cases / models and lead and advise on projects in the infrastructure and real estate sectors from bid stage to financial close
- Be willing and able to travel, when necessary

Rewards & Benefits

We offer an excellent package which includes:

- A competitive salary
- Accommodation allowance
- Transportation allowance
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Assistance Programme - 24-hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants
Applying and Expectations of the Process

This is a 2-stage interview process, if the candidate's profile is a good match to our requirements, she/he will be contacted by our Recruitment team for a first initial screening followed by the first interview with one of our Directors, followed by a financial modelling test.

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).