Job Description

Do you want to make a positive impact on the world? Sustainable development is at the heart of everything we do.

Seventy-five years ago, we created a home for creative thinkers seeking to solve the world\xe2\x80\x99s biggest challenges. Today, a collective of 16,000+ Arupians gather across the globe from 140 different countries to build a sustainable future.

We strive to create an inclusive environment and give everyone a voice. Diversity drives innovation in our projects and offers empathy to the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage applications from people living with disability and provide workplace adjustments.

At Arup, you\xe2\x80\x99ll do more than work \xe2\x80\x94 you\xe2\x80\x99ll shape a better world.

About this role
With a mandate to grow its finance and economics team and capabilities, Arup requires a motivated individual with proven advisory and ESG experience gained on major infrastructure projects. The purpose of this role is to support the F&E advisory offering across South East Asia and Australasia region, based in Singapore. This is a high impact role that will help shape the future of Arup\xe2\x80\x99s Advisory business and will include client engagement, work winning, project delivery, training and mentoring and technical advice. The role is internal delivery facing and providing additional delivery capacity to the F&E team in region, focused on ESG advisory, energy advisory, and investment business cases. You will provide focus, continuity and technical guidance across business case and economics advisory projects across various infrastructure subsectors. You will bring technical excellence, very strong writing and communication skills, and an enthusiasm for developing socially useful project outcomes.

What will I do?

• Lead and deliver on business development and bidding activities as part of Advisory proposal and market engagement process.
• You will undertake market research on sectors or agreed assets to help inform the broader team\xe2\x80\x99s business development focus and/or support specific pitch effort.
• You will lead and deliver projects across a wide range of transaction and financial projects as part of the Financial and Economics team. You will also provide support to sustainability and strategy project as needed across advisory services, and potentially support the Climate and Sustainability Services team as required
• Build internal network with various businesses to ensure mobilization of wider Arup expertise across planning, design, engineering, finance and research sectors to meet specific client needs.
• Seek innovative solutions and embrace innovative methods to add value to clients, the environment and society. Cross sell wider planning & advisory services and identify/develop wider downstream opportunities for Arup via \xe2\x80\x98trusted advisor\xe2\x80\x99 relationships.
• Support Arup leaders across SE Asia to identify talent, build capacity, develop skills and share experience. Contribute to incremental growth of the F&E team and contribute to wider growth of Arup\xe2\x80\x99s Advisory business.
• Participate in broader Office, Group, Region and/or Global activities as assigned or appropriate.

What will I bring?

• A relevant university Degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience with proven advisory and ESG experience gained on major infrastructure projects.
• Be conversant with some, but not necessarily across all concepts, EU Taxonomy, portfolio decarbonisation, green bonds / sustainability linked loans, climate risk & governance, responsible investment, and natural capital.
• Conversant in frameworks to assess commercial viability of infrastructure investment.
• Comfortable with ESG due diligence for Mergers & Acquisitions, ESG strategy and sustainability reporting.
• Familiarity with the infrastructure and real estate sectors, and the socio-economic drivers that underpin their development
• Skills in mentoring, coaching and supporting the technical development of junior team members.

Our firm
Dedicated to sustainable development, the firm is a collective of 16,000 designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

We create spaces where everyone feels safe, seen and included and able to perform at their best. We take an approach to flexible working that supports the diversity and well-being of our members.

Are you ready to shape a better world?
Our open roles are waiting for you on the Arup careers page. If you like what you see here, apply today.

Arup does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.

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