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Principal Advisory Professional (Infrastructure Finance & Strategic Advisory)

Austin, Texas, United States of America | Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America | Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Overview

Our MMS Strategic Advisory Group is seeking a Principal Advisory Professional (Infrastructure Finance & Strategic Advisory).

Serves as a senior leader in financial and strategic advisory services focused on infrastructure, transportation, and energy markets. Provides advanced financial analysis, capital planning, and risk advisory to support major public and private investment decisions.

Combines deep expertise in federal funding programs, capital allocation, and macro-financial modeling with advisory delivery across revenue generation, financing strategies, and public-private partnerships (P3s).

Acts as both a client advisor and market-facing leader, originating work and delivering complex engagements that influence multi-billion-dollar infrastructure investment programs.

Your role

Financial Advisory & Capital Strategy

  • Leads development of advanced financial models supporting infrastructure investments, including:
  • Revenue forecasting (user fees, grants, availability payments, system revenues)
  • Capital planning and lifecycle investment strategies
  • Portfolio-level financial performance and risk analysis
  • Advises clients on funding and financing strategies, including federal programs, grants, and structured capital approaches.
  • Applies stochastic modeling, stress testing, and macroeconomic analysis to evaluate financial sustainability and risk exposure.

Public Sector & Infrastructure Investment Advisory

  • Serves as trusted advisor to transportation agencies, utilities, and public-sector clients on:
    • Capital allocation strategies
    • Program-level financial oversight
    • Grant compliance and funding optimization
  • Develops and evaluates business cases for major capital programs, incorporating economic, financial, and policy considerations.
  • Supports alignment with regulatory and governmental funding frameworks (e.g., DOT, GASB).

Public-Private Partnerships (P3) & Value for Money

  • Leads or supports development of:
    • Value for Money (VfM) analyses
    • P3 delivery models and commercial structures
    • Risk allocation frameworks and financial evaluation models
  • Advises clients through procurement strategy, financial structuring, and evaluation processes.
  • Integrates risk modeling and financial stress testing into P3 decision-making.

Revenue Generation & Financial Structuring

  • Provides financial advisory on revenue optimization strategies, including:
    • User-based revenue models (tolls, fares, usage fees)
    • Hybrid funding structures combining public and private capital
  • Evaluates financial impacts of policy, regulatory, and economic changes on infrastructure revenue streams.
  • Develops portfolio-level insights and dashboards to support executive decision-making.

Energy & Clean Infrastructure Advisory

  • Supports advisory engagements for energy and decarbonization initiatives, including:
    • Financial modeling of renewable energy investments
    • Support for Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) commercial structuring and evaluation
    • Analysis of energy procurement and long-term cost optimization strategies
  • Advises large institutional clients on energy-related capital planning and financing approaches.

Business Development & Market Leadership

  • Actively participates in origination and capture of advisory work, including:
    • Developing client relationships at executive levels
    • Supporting proposals and leading financial components of pursuits
  • Positions the firm for opportunities in:
    • Federal and state infrastructure funding programs
    • Large-scale capital investment advisory
    • Emerging energy transition markets

Data, Analytics & Decision Support

  • Leads development of advanced analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI dashboards) to support:
    • Portfolio oversight
    • Risk identification
    • Executive-level reporting
  • Translates complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for leadership and stakeholders.

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Provides guidance and mentorship to analysts and advisory staff across financial and technical disciplines.
  • Collaborates across engineering, program management, and advisory teams to deliver integrated solutions.
  • Supports development of internal financial advisory tools, frameworks, and standards.
  • Leads engagements involving large-scale, highly complex financial and capital planning challenges, including multi-billion-dollar infrastructure portfolios and federally funded programs requiring rigorous risk analysis and stakeholder alignment.

  • Operates with significant independence under general direction. Applies expert judgment in financial modeling, capital allocation, and risk evaluation, influencing major investment decisions and policy outcomes.

  • Provides technical and analytical direction to multi-disciplinary teams, including financial analysts, economists, and program specialists.

  • Senior leadership, advisory teams, technical experts, and program management staff across the firm.

  • Public sector executives, federal agencies (e.g., DOT), investors, financial institutions, and industry stakeholders. Regular interaction with C-suite and government leadership.

Cities & development Engineering

Location

Various locations

Job Type

Full time

Ref

R-154393

Salary range

-

About you

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or related field (Master's preferred; Applied Economics strongly aligned)
  • Typically 15+ years of experience in:
    • Infrastructure finance or public-sector advisory
    • Capital planning and portfolio oversight
    • Financial modeling and risk analysis
  • Demonstrated experience advising on multi-billion-dollar programs or portfolios
  • Advanced financial modeling, stress testing, and risk analytics
  • Deep understanding of public-sector funding and capital allocation
  • Experience with large-scale portfolio oversight and performance management
  • Strong data analytics and visualization capabilities (Power BI, Excel)
  • Executive-level communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Knowledge of P3 frameworks, VfM analysis, and infrastructure finance (preferred/expanding)
  • Familiarity with energy markets and PPA structuring (growing capability area)
  • Key Competencies: Financial Acumen • Strategic Advisory • Risk Management • Client Service • Data-Driven Decision Making • Communication • Leadership • Innovation
Why choose AtkinsRéalis?

Why choose AtkinsRéalis?

Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.

Rewards & benefits

At AtkinsRéalis, our values—Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, and Excellence—are more than just words. They are the foundation of who we are and how we work. These principles shape our culture, guide our decisions, and inspire us to create an environment where every team member feels empowered to grow, succeed, and make a meaningful impact.

Depending on your employment status, AtkinsRéalis benefits may include medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits, employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting, employee stock purchase plan, Paid Time Off, leaves of absences options, flexible work options, recognition and employee satisfaction programs, employee assistance program, and voluntary benefits. You can review our comprehensive benefits page here.

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About AtkinsRéalis

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Expected compensation range is between $150k-$245k annually depending on skills, experience, and geographical location.

Are you ready to expand your career with us? Apply today and help us shape something extraordinary.

AtkinsRéalis is an equal opportunity, Drug-Free employer EOE/Veteran/Disability

Please review AtkinsRéalis' Equal Opportunity Statement here.

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