Investment Planning Experts (Infrastructure Sector) in London

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Are you a brilliant asset manager who is passionate about the future of the infrastructure sector and can help guide our clients on developing investment plans, using the latest tools, systems and data insights? On the back of continued success across our Infrastructure Practice, we are looking for talented people to join our growing Asset Management Team. We work very closely with all our clients, build strong interpersonal relationships and pride ourselves on our ability to ‘walk the talk’. Therefore, we are particularly interested in those who have practical ‘hands-on’ experience with infrastructure assets and an interest in:

• Development of capital and operational investment plans (capex and opex plans – ‘totex plans’)
• Transition of an investment plan into portfolios and programmes of work for delivery
• Implementation and adoption of systems and tools to support investment planning & management
• Delivery of digital asset management transformation and change programmes

While successful candidates will have a good technical understanding of their field, deep specialism is not the only facet of PA Consultants; we also want ingenious people who can turn highly technical detail into simple concepts and communicate this clearly to anyone from boardroom to the operation. Our consultants should be able to adapt their style to work effectively with clients and inspire confidence.

Qualifications:

• Business Processes
• Strategic Planning – essential: can create alignment between capital and operational investment plans and organisational, economic, and sustainability goals.
• Investment Planning – essential: understands the processes for capturing investment demand, developing a consistent set of metrics to quantify cost/risk/benefit, and trading-off constraints of the organisation to develop an agreeable and actionable investment plan in the medium term.
• Investment Management – desirable: can take an investment plan approved by the leadership team into the next stage of the asset lifecycle.
• Business Planning – desirable: experience in supporting Price Reviews and business planning processes with knowledge and understanding of regulatory framework and future trends.
• Delivery Planning – desirable: would be to understand the development of asset management strategies and plans that take a business plan into a business delivery plan.
• Digital Tools & Systems
• Digital Implementation & Adoption – essential: first-hand experience specifying, designing and implementing a digital tool and/or enterprise system.
• Asset Investment Planning & Management (AIP) tools & systems – essential: first-hand experience implementing and using AIPM systems.
• Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) systems – desirable: first-hand experience implementing and using PPM systems.
• Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems – desirable: first-hand experience implementing and using EAM systems.
• Consulting Skills
• High-quality outputs – report-writing and presentation skills need to be strong.
• Team management – able to lead small teams to deliver highly complex and strategically important assignments.
• Analytics – a strong, logical and problem-solving mindset.
• Future trends – an appreciation for new, and emerging sector capabilities.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

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Benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)