Job Vacancy | Associate | Major Projects Division (MPD) | NSW Treasury – Australia

Job summary

About the Opportunities

Join Treasury’s Major Projects Division (MPD) to provide expert advice and leadership across major projects, strategic transactions, and policy initiatives. You’ll offer commercial and financial advice on major infrastructure, energy transition, precinct development, and capital projects, from investment decisions to operation.

About the Team
MPD is NSW Treasury’s in-house major projects and strategic transactions team. MPD provides commercial, financial, and governance advice, undertakes due diligence and complex negotiations for the NSW Government. MPD has three pillars:

• Major Projects: provides commercial and financial advice to agencies on funding, financing, procuring and delivering major infrastructure, energy transition, precinct development and capital projects including Public Private Partnership (PPPs);
• Strategic Transactions: Executes transactions, financial due diligence, governance strategy, and complex negotiations.
• Policy: Develops and administers policy initiatives, contributing to infrastructure and construction sector policies and promoting procurement consistency.
Essential Requirements
The role will suit applicants with a range of skills and experiences and from a variety of backgrounds including those set out below.
• Experience in infrastructure, construction, major projects or project finance at a public or private sector organisation including legal or professional services firm.
• Experience structuring, negotiating and executing infrastructure transactions and taking a lead role in transaction management including commercial, financial and legal due diligence
• Experience with various contracting models, risk allocation and project finance.
• Experience in the commercial aspects of infrastructure and major projects delivery including with respect to cost and time delays
• Tertiary or postgraduate qualifications in engineering, commerce, accounting, finance, law or a related discipline.

Major projects and strategic transactions are many and varied in Treasury. You will work across a number of sectors including the State’s renewable energy transition roadmap, transformative transport projects or helping to deliver critical new social infrastructure in the health, education, social housing or corrective justice sectors as well as niche sectors such as airlines, hospitality, gaming and racing.
If you are a commercial and finance professional looking to move into an exciting role with access to the highest quality major projects and strategic transactions work available in the State, we would like to hear from you.

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