M&A Junior Consultant – Technical Due Diligence

Your Role

You will be working alongside Partners, Senior Consultants, and peers across the Climate, Sustainability and Transactions and Low Carbon Solutions teams to offer Transaction Advisory Services to financial institutions and infrastructure operators. You will work closely with infrastructure funds, private equity firms, investment banks and energy companies to deliver technical due diligence services on buy side, sell side and project financing deals. You will have some experience in the infrastructure and/or energy sectors, ideally with experience supporting transaction due diligence assignments, or with an understanding and interest in this area, that capture technical, commercial, and economic drivers of infrastructure private finance deals. Your focus is on the technical and ESG/EHS-related evaluation of buy-side, sell-side, and project finance transactions, as well as assessment of technical risks, opportunities, and value drivers in the M&A context. The position will be based in Paris (or Lyon).

Responsibilities

• Assisting on projects that provide our clients with a technical, operational and business plan evaluation of their proposed investment on infrastructure assets.
• Assisting on the coordination of typical project deliverables such as Q&A submission, management sessions, client meetings and report delivery.
• Evaluating technical, operational, commercial, and economic aspects of infrastructure and energy assets (e.g., asset condition, performance, Opex/Capex, management and operating concepts, business plans).
• Identifying, assessing, and clearly presenting transaction‑relevant risks and opportunities (including deal breakers, value creation potential, integration and optimization approaches).
• Working effectively across technical communities within ERM and subcontractors who are identified as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to support project delivery and client interaction.
• Delivery of proposals, which will include development of our company profile, scopes of work, scheduling and commercial terms.
• Completing internal development tasks to improve the functionality of the infrastructure Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) service line.

Essential Qualifications

• A solid academic background with an engineering bias (Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Civil Engineering).
• Early‑career (graduate or internship) technical consulting and/or engineering (design or operations) experience within the energy/infrastructure sectors.
• Technical skills, including the ability to read and understand technical documentation and to identify potential risks and opportunities within technical documentation, during site visits, and technical discussions, relating to points such as asset integrity, operational performance, management systems, and business plans.
• Excellent organisational skills, self‑motivation, self‑sufficiency and the ability to work successfully in a fast‑turnaround team environment.
• Ability to promote and execute quality work, and ensure high standards are being achieved by yourself and the team.
• Good communication skills, exhibiting report‑writing proficiency.
• An interest in the intersection between sustainability and infrastructure solutions.
• Excellent written and spoken in the local language (native) and English.

Desirable Qualifications

• Previous experience in technical due diligence (preferred but not essential).
• An interest in economics and finance, and/or experience with Business Plans; interest in domestic travel to perform site visits when required, focus is on continental Europe.
• Early‑career involvement/experience in the management of client projects.
• Additional language proficiencies.
• Prior experience in one or more of the following industrial sectors: Renewables, Bioenergy, Waste & Circularity, Power, Heat & Water Networks, Fuels & Chemicals, Low Carbon Fleets & Transport, Buildings & Civil Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, and/or Maritime.
• Prior experience or education in: EHS regulation or soil and groundwater risk assessment. (to support occasionally the EHS Due Diligence team).

Benefits

• Collaboration on challenging national and international M&A and infrastructure transactions with high strategic relevance.
• A stimulating work environment within a dynamic and engaged team, with strong opportunities for learning and development.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Ongoing training and internal and/or international career progression opportunities.
• Flexible work models (onsite, hybrid, remote), attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits in accordance with the ERM standard in France (Meal vouchers, Bicycle travel allowance, Flexible remote working arrangements).

EEO & Diversity Statement

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