AECOM is hiring Senior Consultant-level professionals for its Management Consulting – Financial Sponsors team in New York, NY, supporting commercial and technical due diligence, market assessments, and post-acquisition value creation for private equity and infrastructure fund clients. This is a client-facing, deal-oriented practice offering direct exposure to live M&A transactions and regular interaction with private equity deal teams. Scope of ownership scales with level: Senior Consultants co-lead engagements, client relationships, and team development. We are recruiting for this role in New York, NY (in-person 4-days a week).
As a Senior Consultant in AECOM’s Management Consulting – Financial Sponsors team in New York, NY, your day-to-day role will be to define, lead, and manage multiple tasks within a workstream as part of a larger engagement. You can expect:
- Fast-paced, deal-driven environment with direct exposure to live transactions and time-sensitive client deliverables.
- Based in AECOM’s New York, NY office, working alongside a growing bench of consulting and sector talent in the heart of the city.
- Ground-floor opportunity to help build out a newly established offering, shape the team’s approach, methodologies, and client relationships as the practice scales, with outsized potential for growth and advancement.
The responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Support buy-side and sell-side commercial due diligence for private equity and infrastructure fund clients, market sizing, competitive analysis, ESG and sustainability topics, and expert/customer interviews.
- Build financial models and data-driven analyses to evaluate target companies’ growth potential, market position, and risk.
- Research infrastructure-adjacent sectors (engineering & construction, environmental services, energy transition, utilities, industrials) to inform investment theses.
- Develop client-ready deliverables, presentations, reports, and data visualizations for client deal teams and investment committees.
- Partner with technical subject-matter experts across AECOM to bring a financial and commercial lens to technical due diligence and asset management projects.
- Support post-acquisition value creation and 100-day planning for portfolio companies, identifying operational improvement opportunities.
- Build relationships with private equity deal teams, portfolio company executives, and internal AECOM stakeholders.
- Lead engagements end-to-end, scoping, staffing, workplan management, and overall quality and timeliness of delivery.
- Own senior client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor to private equity deal teams and portfolio company leadership.
- Drive business development, lead proposal development, identify new opportunities, and help expand the Financial Sponsors offering.
- Manage, develop, and evaluate Analysts and Consultants staffed on engagements.