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Your new company
We are delighted to be partnering with The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) and has an exciting opportunity to join the organisation in a financial role.
Your new role
You will have expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Housing
- PPP investment models
- Transport decarbonisation - particularly heavy-duty vehicles
- Energy transition infrastructure
Within this varied role you will understand the barriers to private investment across a range of public and private infrastructure sectors, bringing market insights and exploring with government how these may be mitigated. You will develop an understanding of the public sector policy perspective and investigate private sector responses to inform public sector interventions which can promote infrastructure investment and be an effective bridge / broker between the public and private sector to catalyse progress.
The organisation are looking to recruit candidates at manager or associate director level, and you will provide the public sector with an improved understanding of new and emerging infrastructure funding and investment models and their applicability to a range of infrastructure sectors, assessing the financial viability of commercial proposals from private and public entities for Scottish infrastructure opportunities.
You will also monitor technical regulations/standards relevant to investment routes which bring private investment into public infrastructure, including those relating to classification, procurement and interface with budgeting and accounting standards.
In addition, you will support the progression of project structuring from early-stage scoping and development through to delivery and undertake senior stakeholder engagement with UK and international governments to understand best practice.What you'll need to succeed
You will be a qualified Chartered Accountant or equivalent, and you will have extensive experience and a successful track record in the development and delivery of project financed transactions either through public private partnerships such as public private partner partnerships, concession arrangements, joint venture arrangements in the public and private sector, along with an understanding of debt, equity and other financial instruments for investment.
You will also have experience of dealing successfully with complex contractual issues, stakeholder management and negotiating a solution between organisations. You will also have the ability to interpret and articulate investment barriers through market insight and demonstrate thought leadership and experience of the commercial underpinning of infrastructure investment models and an understanding of the dynamic of the public/private interface.
What you'll get in return
This is a fantastic opportunity where you will have exposure to interesting work which has an impact on the wider community. Along with a competitive salary, you will also receive a wide range of excellent benefits.
Equal opportunities:As an equal opportunities employer, SFT is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. SFT aspires to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join SFT.
Location:SFT's office is at Haymarket in Edinburgh. SFT works flexibly, with an expectation that colleagues need to be in the office for meetings as required, but not full-time. Additionaltravel will be required to attend external meetings.
What you need to do now
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