Assistant Consultant, Infrastructure Advisory (Gurugram & Mumbai India)

About Steer

Steer is an international transport consultancy at the forefront of transport planning and city-shaping. We are an independent multi-disciplinary consulting firm with over 600 staff internationally and a strong portfolio of work across the world. We offer a unique range of skills, expertise and knowledge advising clients on a local and global basis and delivering projects engaging the company’s economics, technical, commercial, highways, rail, aviation and strategy/economics capabilities.

Over the past 30 years our Infrastructure Team has worked on a majority of privately funded infrastructure schemes across the world. During this time, we have been involved with all sides of the procurement process – for bidders, sellers and governments – on over 600 projects (including toll roads, airports, navigation locks and urban transit) with a combined value of over $65 billion achieving financial close over the past 5 years. Our efforts have been recognised by the wider industry. We have been ranked 1st in the world in the ‘Global Technical Advisory League Tables’ (Inframation/Infra Deals) for consecutive 3 years (2018, 2019 and 2020) in terms of number and value of total transactions in the transport infrastructure sector, as well as having won several Project Finance International (PFI) awards (2020: ‘Europe PPP Deal of the Year’ for the A465 Sections 5&6, and ‘Europe M&A Deal of the Year’ for the Brisa Acquisition). We provide a full range of advisory services in the infrastructure market, from feasibility stage to bid support, offering independent Traffic and Technical Due Diligence services to Sponsors, Lenders and Investors

About the role

Steer is looking for an enthusiastic and talented professional with a passion for transport to join our India office as an Assistant Consultant with preferable experience in the transaction advisory and project management. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that works on a wide variety of high-profile transportation projects, including traffic and revenue studies for toll roads, ridership forecasting for transit, aviation and rail projects; transportation economics, finance studies, and strategic planning. You will work as part of our global team spanning across India, UK, Europe, North America, and LATAM providing solutions to both private and public-sector clients, including investors, operators and concessionaries within the infrastructure sector.

We are specifically interested in consultants to assist with tasks such as:

· Traffic and revenue forecasting and travel demand estimation for brownfield and greenfield toll road assets.

· Conducting detailed quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

· Managing primary surveys such as traffic counts and origin-destination surveys.

· Assessing trends of key macro-economic drivers.

· Traffic and Revenue study for other transport projects (transaction advisory).

· Business and financial modelling; and

· Policy and regulatory advisory.

· Contribution to proposals and participation in activities that enhance Steer’s offer and reputation.

The ideal candidates will have interest in consulting and infrastructure advisory with a familiarity of key issues and approaches to quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Candidates will need to be well-rounded, with interests across all aspects of professional consulting including data analysis, report writing and presentation, project management and business development and be able to evidence the following experience and capabilities.

Key accountabilities

The candidate will be required to:

• Manage and deliver successful projects (time, cost, quality) as a network modeler, primarily on toll road transaction projects (also supporting overseas transactions).

• Provide technical expertise and drive technical analysis (traffic and revenue forecasting), report writing and presentations to clients.

• Manage, supervise and coach more junior members of the team.

• Deliver effective, high-quality proposals, engage in business development, and develop a market presence.

• Drive own career path and network (internal and external).• Contribute to effective team performance on both financial and behavioral measures

Requirements

In this role, you will be required to:

· Collaborate respectfully, transparently, and honestly with colleagues across the business to deliver high-quality consulting and differentiated services to our clients.

· Contribute to effective team performance within allocated time and budget on both financial and behavioural measures

· Learn specific & new processes and applications to be able to deliver on project work effectively. The company will provide guided training to standard processes and practices followed through our robust graduate learning programme.

· Broaden and deepen your own skill set in order to improve your marketability to our clients and as an internal project resource across global offices.

· Manage and drive your own career path and network. The company offers customized training programs via our Learning and Development team to support the employees and enable you to take responsibility to drive your own career.

· Take a proactive role in participating in region/office, company and graduate events

· Provide technical expertise where necessary.

· Demonstrate strong analytical skills including the use of spreadsheet modelling and other tools to analyse and solve problems, proven in a consultancy or client environment.

· Have strong written and verbal communication skills, coupled with the confidence to explain technical details clearly to non-technical audiences. Be a good team player by being able to work collaboratively with colleagues in other disciplines to provide the best solution for the client.

Desirable education background and skills for this role:

· Educated to Master or Bachelor Degree level -  2:1 (or equivalent) from the following disciplines:

–Economics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Engineering or other numerate subject; or

–Transport Planning, Geography, or other transport-related subject.

· Demonstrable interest in the transportation sector and a minimum experience of 1-2 years

· Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively within the team and externally with clients both over the email, virtual and face to face interactions

· Strong analytical skills e.g., data manipulation/analysis using a range of software packages (MS Excel, Stata, SPSS, R) including an ability to analyse and draw insight from the data

· Strong report writing and communication skills including:

–ability to back up opinions with well-constructed, evidenced arguments; and

–ability to confidently explain complex analysis to non-specialists via reporting and presentations

· Ability to use Microsoft packages, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook

· Good team player, able to work collaboratively with colleagues in other disciplines and with different cultures and across time zones

Benefits

For our full-time employees, we offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance, ability to buy and sell annual leave, Employee Assistance Program, an Employee Provident Fund contribution and a discretionary yearly bonus based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome.

In our commitment to inclusivity in the workplace, Steer has welcomed the creation of various Employee Resource Groups, dedicated to ensuring the support, progression, and well-being of all employees. For more information, check out our social responsibility page Our social responsibility | Steer (steergroup.com).

Our evaluation processes are designed around merit and capability.  We don’t select people on the prestige of their educational establishments or other background information.  Our interviewers are trained on how to manage selection processes fairly and without bias, and to conduct processes which do not selectively appeal more to one or more demographic to the detriment of any others.

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.