Advisory Consultant Opportunities

Description

• Conducting stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
• Capital projects advisory, including project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal, capital improvement planning, asset management, portfolio strategy.
• Independently tailor existing/proven analytical frameworks and methodologies for client-specific needs.
• Creating highly-polished executive-ready decks as you work, to build buy-in and convey emerging data-driven insights.
• Evaluation of financial cashflows, particularly public finance, via Excel.
• Supporting Capture Managers with specific elements of proposal responses, including: narrative development, technical solutions development (incl. technical writing), pricing, team definition, subcontractor engagement, internal risk review, and compliance procedures.
• Proactively coach and mentor junior staff on developing core consulting skills.
• Leveraging AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.
• Upwardly and laterally manage the inputs from regional leadership, Client Account Managers, and technical experts to flag key delivery choices, considerations and risks as they relate to technical scope, client satisfaction, and commercial constraints.
• Applying existing and hypothesising new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalise, and analyse client problems.
• In collaboration with leadership, architect new analytical frameworks and methodologies for client-specific needs.
• Building client relationships and managing interactions throughout the engagement lifecycle, bringing clients into engagement delivery and iteratively building their buy-in.
• Synthesising multiple inputs into coherent insights across a variety of formats; slide decks, written narrative, playbooks, dashboards and toolkits.
• Creating pitch decks and defining AECOM Advisory’s value proposition.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong technical skills, including experience with one or more of the following software packages:
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams across broad geographies and numerous different business lines
• Organisational assessment, business transformation and performance improvement.
• Work in a high-tempo, high-context client-facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure.
• Exceptional numerical reasoning and quantitative skills.
• MBA, or other Master’s degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields.
• Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and solid understanding of client industries and their context.
• Sharp analytical, logical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills, employing abstraction techniques to solve ambiguous client problems, and ingest and parse out large volumes of client information.
• Solid verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C-suite and senior management audiences.
• Decarbonisation, climate action implementation, resilience strategies and frameworks incl. non-financial valuation methodologies.
• Fluency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Corporate, enterprise or capital programme strategy, market analysis and target operating model design.
• Management consulting or corporate strategy experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired:
• Able to be self-directed, anticipatory and responsive to iterative feedback.
• Bringing commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, researching client contexts.
• Strong interpersonal skills, client-service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.

Benefits

• Collegial team-player who can work within a small, motivated team of diverse consulting professionals.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance