Associate Director - Economist - Transport Strategy and Cities

KPMG
London - United Kingdom
S: Competitive

KPMG's Infrastructure Advisory Group is widely recognised as a leading global, independent financial and business adviser in infrastructure. The group has won many awards, including Infrastructure Journal financial advisor of the year.

In the UK the group consists of over 100 professionals in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester and is organised as a single national team, providing in-depth advice on the strategic, financial and commercial issues driving infrastructure projects across Transport, Power & Utilities and Social Infrastructure in the UK and internationally. This broad range of projects involves work with both public and private sector clients.

The transport sector is a key focus for our infrastructure business. We are a market-leading advisor to major city region transport authorities and combined authorities on the economic impacts, prioritisation and innovative funding of transport and other infrastructure investments. Our economic approaches are innovative and focus on Gross Value Added (GVA), productivity and employment impacts, rather than traditional appraisal techniques. We advise most of the largest UK city regions.
Our business is expanding rapidly and is looking high calibre, ambitious senior economist to join the team.

The role:

Associate Directors at KPMG are expected to build and take ownership of key client relationships by managing others to deliver, lead on large-scale business development activities and leverage growth opportunities.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Developing and overseeing the implementation of innovative economic analysis to assess the impact of transport and other infrastructure schemes on GVA, productivity and employment
• Internal management of engagement teams
• Building and maintaining relationships with clients, target clients and key market constituents to provide fee earning opportunities
• Pitching for new business and introducing ideas to clients/target clients
• Developing market intelligence and sector knowledge
• Leading specific business development initiatives
• Managing multiple projects
• Ensuring projects are planned, delivered and closed effectively and are managed in a manner that complies with internal and regulatory procedures
• Performance management, coaching and mentoring junior staff as required

Individuals interested in applying should:

• Have a minimum of eight years' professional experience, predominantly focussed on transport economics;
• Have 5 GCSEs/O levels including Maths and English
• Have strong, quantitative economics degree
• Have detailed knowledge of the public sector landscape in respect of local government finance and major scheme funding;
• Be an independent thinker with the ability to identify problems and contribute to the development of solutions, helping us to remain at the cutting edge of thinking in the sector;
• Be a highly motivated, ambitious self-starter keen to develop innovative appraisal techniques that go beyond the traditional economic appraisal methodology;
• Be comfortable and experienced in a senior client-facing role, including written and verbal communication with senior client staff;
• Be highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Word for report writing and Microsoft Excel for financial modelling;
• Appreciate the chance to work on a wide range of projects simultaneously, often to demanding, fixed timescales.
• Knowledge and experience of other transport sectors including aviation and/or ports would also be an advantage, as would international rail experience.
• All UK staff who have not passed a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)-approved exam will be required to do so

Additional information:
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