CLIENT ENGAGEMENT MANAGER (CONSULTING/ADVISORY within both Public & Private TRANSPORT/INFRASTRUCTURE

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CLIENT ENGAGEMENT MANAGER (CONSULTING/ADVISORY within both Public & Private TRANSPORT/INFRASTRUCTURE

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CLIENT ENGAGEMENT MANAGER (CONSULTING/ADVISORY within both Public & Private TRANSPORT/INFRASTRUCTURE sector) - Cape Town, Western Cape, SA

Highly Competitive Package on Offer!

Global Strategic Management Consulting Firm is currently recruiting within their team of Transport Consulting Specialists.

You have a strong desire to contribute to making a significant positive impact in the world, with a belief in the power of a committed and diligent team to effect change. Further to this you are a productive team player who thrives in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment and who is capable of working independently to deliver tasks to the expected level of quality with minimal.

One would describe you as an entrepreneurial thinker who is able to adapt to changing needs in a complex and sometimes uncertain environment. Further to this you possess numerical excellence and an ability to understand and translate logic into calculation language.

You are a strategic logical thinker who has the ability to adapt and work in a highly pressurized, fast-paced and live collaborative environment.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Defining client problems concisely, in simple terms, and developing hypotheses to identify solutions, working collaboratively with clients.
• Leading or coordinating finance-related, and general quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify suitable solutions. This includes:
  • Quantitative research methodologies, and qualitative research and problem-solving methodologies, including towards the development of business cases, feasibility studies, business plans and strategies.
  • Developing financial models and conducting evaluations of financial models.
  • Performing in-depth financial analysis, including cost-benefit analysis
  • Reviewing financial data, spreadsheets, budgets and reports, and translating quantitative information into easily communicable findings or implications.
  • Conducting in-depth risk analysis
  • Financial structuring, developing financing strategies and securing finance
• Initiating and/or facilitating discussions with clients to elaborate on project solution proposals.
• Leading or coordinating the development of high-quality project deliverables, including slide decks, reports, financial models or other analytical tools.
• Presenting findings to clients, partners and senior decision-makers in government, development finance and the private sector with a high level of confidence.
• Managing cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams tackling complex business, financial, economic and social challenges for clients.
• Cultivating and managing relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Managing stakeholders, both in the formal and informal sectors that the Company works with and assisting the clients in doing the same.
• Managing subcontractors, including overseeing the delivery of high-quality deliverables by these parties.
• Developing knowledge products on topics in the sectors that the Company works in.
• Supporting project management and administration, to comply with client or company requirements and standard procedures.
• Making an active contribution to developing new business opportunities, building on current project work and through proposal development.
• Contributing to practice and company-wide strategic initiatives.
• Mentoring and managing junior staff where applicable.

Key qualification, skills and attributes:

• A post graduate qualification in Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Accounting, Actuarial Science or Economics
• Proven track-record of academic excellence
• 5 to 7 years' experience in finance or management consulting / advisory ideally gained within the project or infrastructure finance, financial structuring, public sector financing, investment banking, business planning, project financial modelling and accounting arena
• Exposure to a broad range of financial analysis and project related financial modelling and accounting with a demonstrable track record of high performance in these areas
• Good exposure to research, analysis, synthesis and problem-solving
• Must demonstrate strong numeracy capabilities, with excellent Excel abilities.
• Must be able to think logically and independently.
• Must demonstrate or have a track record of leadership or entrepreneurial aptitude.
• Must demonstrate track record of leading teams.
• Must have interdisciplinary interests and skills.
• Fluency and strong command of English

Attributes:

• Ability to conceptualise problems, identify the quantitative variables and their complex interrelationships;
• A strong ability to translate and capture these variables and interrelationships in MS Excel or other quantita

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