Corporate Finance Senior Associate - Energy & Renewables

In a nutshell
Join a top-tier team that's shaping the future of UK renewables! Our Energy & Infrastructure Corporate Finance team is proud to be ranked as one of the top financial advisors by volume for UK renewables transactions. With over 30 successful deals in the past few years, we're recognised as a leader in the field.

We're excited to announce that we're expanding our team and looking for a passionate person to join us. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone eager to advance their career in Corporate Finance, specialising in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) within the renewable energy sector.

As part of our team, you'll dive into the dynamic world of Energy M&A, working on both buy-side and sell-side transactions, all within the highly topical and ever-evolving energy and infrastructure sector.

The Energy M&A team works on projects across the commercially viable renewable technologies, such as onshore wind, solar, anaerobic digestion and battery storage. Our clients range from smaller developers with single assets, to multi-national IPPs with significant portfolios. Our deep geographical knowledge spans the whole of the UK and could include a 100MW operational wind farm in Scotland, or a pre-construction solar PV portfolio in Hampshire. Our comprehensive financial advisory services are backed by seasoned corporate finance experts, top-tier tax advisors, and wealth management specialists.

This position is based at our Exeter office, with the potential for a hybrid work-from-home arrangement.

What you'll be doing day to day
Your primary responsibility will be to support the Energy M&A team on a wide range of assignments for clients based across the UK.

• Assisting with M&A, valuation and advisory engagements to clients in the renewable energy sector, to include tasks such as:
• Playing an influential role in the initial pitch to prospective clients
• Actively engaging investors and pursuing new market entrants through networking and cold calls
• Analysing extensive data to create quality marketing particulars
• Acting as a key member of the client team and proactively coordinating responses to questions and issues as they arise
• Evaluating and clarifying initial bids to drive competitive tension and ensure profitable final offers
• Providing financial and commercial advice to the client during the closing stages
• Creating and manipulating financial models in Excel, either to inform bids in a disposal process or as part of a valuation engagement.
• Undertaking market research to understand the impact of relevant industry news and recent regulatory announcements on current and prospective clients
• Working closely with Partners, Directors and other members of the Energy M&A team on a day-to-day basis
• Contributing to business development, through the preparation of proposal documents, and attendance at sector conferences and pitch meetings.

About you

• CFA/ACA qualified (or equivalent), although applicants nearing qualification may also be considered.
• Prior experience in corporate finance is desirable but not essential
• Prior experience of or a strong passion to work in the renewable energy sector
• Commercially minded, with an enquiring and analytical approach
• Strong report-writing skills and experience of Microsoft Office
• Excellent verbal communication skills and confidence in front of clients
• Ability to work on your own with strong time management skills to meet deadlines
• Ability to assimilate information from various sources quickly and construct robust reports
• Team-orientated and flexible when required to assist the wider Corporate Finance team
• The desire and ability to develop self and others

Why work at PKF Francis Clark
As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisors in South West England, joining PKF Francis Clark brings opportunities to develop your career in a direction that interests you.

Having celebrated our centenary in 2019, we're a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro.

Our culture is flexible and supportive, enabling you to be the best you can be. We work hard to ensure you can be yourself, develop and be part of a forward-thinking team that makes brilliant things happen. But don't just take our word for it.

PKF Francis Clark is certified as a Great Place to Work. In 2024, we climbed nine places to 24 out of 105 large organisations on the list of the UK's Best Workplaces.

We're also ranked among the UK's Best Workplaces for Women (33 out of 90 large organisations), Best Workplaces for Development (30 out of 100) and Best Workplace for Wellbeing (44 out of 100).

Workplace culture experts Great Place to Work also highlighted PKF Francis Clark as a top achiever among the UK's Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services.

And in recognition of our outstanding training programmes for graduates, school leavers and career changers, we've been ranked among England's Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for two years running.

Whilst we're proudly independent, PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms - together we're the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of a global community of business advisors in 150 countries provides opportunities to expand your horizons by connecting with PKF colleagues around the world.

Your core benefits
Financial benefits:

• Pension
• Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
• Group income protection
• Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare

Health & Wellbeing benefits:

• Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
• Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
• Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
• Cycle to work*

Other benefits:

• Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
• Gifts for career and family milestones
• One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
• Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee's post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.