Working as a Graduate in Strategic Advisory could mean you could be identifying issues and researching evidence relevant for sustainable and resilient economic development, industry sectors, spatial planning, property development or infrastructure investment proposals. Or analysing economic, social, real estate, financial and spatial data. Developing models to assess the economic and financial performance of places, industries or real estate / infrastructure assets.
Or you could be working on economic/industry strategies and regeneration programming. Determining how clients can develop pathways to Net Zero.
Drafting business cases, due diligence assessments and client-focused reporting and working with colleagues across the business in a range of sectors including energy, real estate, infrastructure, digital technology, transport & mobility, environment & natural capital.
Economics
Degrees backgrounds considered : -
- Economics or Engineering Economics
- GIS, Geography, Environmental or Sustainability
- Maths, Urban Planning, Regeneration & Real Estate
- Other degrees considered
The Economics Team is focused on changing places and people’s lives for the better, generating long-term shared prosperity and enabling communities to achieve their full economic potential. We specialise in providing economic services internationally, to both public and private sectors, including government, real estate developers and industry. With projects spanning transport, real estate, energy digital, water, environmental, urban infrastructure and urban resilience.
Our core services include: Economic analysis and data modelling, policy design and evaluation, programme design, economic development strategy, economic and social impact assessment, industry strategy and innovation clusters. Accessing finance and funding, business case and economic appraisal, project implementation, Governance and delivery vehicles. We have a major focus on the economics and decarbonisation and Net Zero.
We work across regional and local geographies to support jurisdictions in making effective, long-term decisions by applying economic tools to understand impacts, incentives, benefits and disbenefits for investment, strategy, and policy decisions.
Property Advisory
Degree backgrounds considered: -
- Quantity Surveying & Building Surveying
- Construction, Real Estate degree focussed
- Other degrees will be considered
The team provides front-end advisory and management services to clients that invest into ‘Real Assets’. The team supports infrastructure and real estate investors, both public and private, identify transaction risks, build value and protect assets at a portfolio level through a dedicated market facing team that draws on the technical expertise from across the wider business.
We are a team of 70 professionals spread across the UK and grouped into 6 market facing service lines; Due Diligence, Technical Advisory, Lifecycle Modelling, FM Advisory, SPV Management and Healthcare Advisory. We have experience across a wide range of infrastructure and property markets with market leading expertise in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). We have acted on many Industry first and market defining transactions including the first acquisition of a listed infrastructure fund by private fund. We are proud to have won multiple industry awards for what we do.
Infrastructure Advisory
Degree backgrounds considered: -
The Infrastructure Advisory team provides transaction and consultancy related services in complex multidisciplinary projects. Our capability includes market studies, demand forecasting, technical and financial feasibility assessments, due diligent assignments (for both lenders and equity) and net zero carbon strategies. The team has a strong track record of supporting clients at the early stage of developing projects, and a strong focus on advising clients concerning, the strategic development of infrastructure assets, logistics and shipping activities. We have a future thinking team providing a holistic approach to net zero which enables wider Environment, Social and Governance commitments. We differentiate ourselves by combining commercial, financial, technical and operational expertise in order to provide a fully integrated service to our clients. We are regularly involved from project originations through to completion, as well as during asset optimisation and modernisation and/or expansion of existing facilities.
Our Net Zero specialists consider the wider global system and are recognised as industry leaders in Net Zero Strategic Advisory. We provide a holistic strategy for decarbonisation and climate-related services. Our data-driven approach enables us to identify opportunities at early project stages and facilities the implementation of solutions throughout the project life cycle.
Transformation Advisory
Degree backgrounds considered: -
In Transformation advisory we work hand in hand with clients to shape, design and implement business change to help them evolve, adapt and improve. Key areas of activity including strategy and visioning, operating model and organisation design, business process development, benefits management, implementation and change management. We bring a people led approach to change, focusing on creating the conditions to support users, employees and stakeholders to effectively adopt and sustain change.
Digital Advisory
- Computer Science
- IT related
- Software Engineering
- GIS
- Data Analytics
The Digital Advisory team are a team of Digital Experts. The team specialise in supporting clients, both public and private sector throughout the lifecycle of their projects, from inception through to delivery and ‘go live’ by providing expert Digital Advisory Services. They also develop, support and maintain the WSP Data management platform – PinPoint that uses advanced cutting-edge technology to enable digital delivery within a project by providing insightful data output that is accessible by a wealth of in-house developed and 3rd party digital toolkits, reports and interfaces.
We have experts who are involved in all aspects of Digital delivery, from digital consultants who can advise on best practice, digital tools and interfaces and delivery methods through to software developers, 3D visualisers, GIS Consultants, Data Analysts and scientists who understand your client and project vision and make this a reality through the use of PinPoint.
All positions closed for applications on the 25th November 2022.
