Assosciate Cosultant

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Job details

Company overview

European professional services firm specializing in unique construction and design projects.

Responsibilities

The role is market facing, focused on enhancing capacity in the existing transaction services offer, assisting to identify new target investor clients for strategic relationship building, keeping abreast of deal pipeline, and winning work, calling on existing relevant expertise across the SE Asia (and to a lesser extent APAC) region.
Main responsibilities:

• Identify, pursue, secure, and deliver due diligence studies and lenders technical advisor projects across the region. Provide technical expertise in all aspects of due diligence services 
• Build internal network with various businesses to ensure mobilization of wider client expertise across planning, design, engineering, finance, and research sectors to meet specific client needs
• Cross sell wider planning & advisory services as well as identify and develop wider downstream opportunities for the clients via ‘trusted advisor’ relationships
• Support the client leaders across SE Asia to identify talent, build capacity, develop skills, and share experience. Contribute to incremental growth of the transaction services team and contribute to wider growth of the company's Advisory business
• Identify and focus on a number of key accounts for the Transaction Services team to (a) deepen these relationships and improve win rate and (b) focus on a select number of new ones with serial deal doers
• Participate in broader Office, Group, Region and/or Global activities as assigned or appropriate.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Recognised relevant tertiary qualifications within an appropriate area;
  • Membership of relevant professional institutions / professional bodies or significant credit towards eligibility for membership
  • Technical knowledge and pre-existing relationships with tier 1 Japanese
  • Understanding of investor decision making processes and metrics, including mechanisms to mitigate risks to the client
  • Demonstrated success in leading the execution of technical and commercial due diligence mandates, and preparing compelling pitches to clients
  • Skills in mentoring, coaching, and supporting the technical development of junior team members
  • Proven working knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and guidelines – and related procedures, including for OH&S.
• Excellent interpersonal skills across all levels, both internally and externally to Arup, including:
  • An ability to represent the organisation at peer level within the Japanese business community
  • ­An ability to relate and work well with people at all levels within the team and within Arup
  • ­An ability to maintain motivation and manage the performance of team members, including the ability to ensure others within the team meet deadlines and other expectations
• Keen sense of maintaining high standards, and a strong desire to motivate the same in others
• Keen understanding of “customer” needs (both internal and external), and a strong ability to effectively manage the issues which may impact on maintaining effectiveness within a commercial environment
• Ability to maintain personal effectiveness, workload issues, and team and client relationships, both under normal circumstances, and at times of significant pressure
• Well-developed commercial acumen

Salary

13 - 16 million yen

Location

Tokyo