Manager – Strategy & Transactions - Iberia

Our Markets & Transactions practice is looking for an experienced Manager to join our growing Madrid team, leading transaction and investment engagements across renewable energy, battery storage, biomethane, e-fuels and other low-carbon infrastructure. 

What you will be doing

As a Manager, you will:

• Lead strategy advisory workstreams: Leveraging our distinctive Power & Renewables expertise and proprietary insights, take day-to-day ownership of engagements spanning corporate strategy, transaction strategy, portfolio value creation, investment and development strategy, commercial optimisation, route-to-market and market access.
• Support transactions: Run buy side and sell side commercial due diligence, vendor commercial due diligence and bid support, working closely with corporate, infrastructure and private equity clients.
• Lead investment appraisal and valuation work: Lead investment appraisal and valuation work: Oversee business plan reviews, valuation analysis, financial modelling, financing and contracting structures, and clearly articulate value drivers, risks and opportunities.
• Develop and manage client relationships: Help manage and deepen existing client relationships while building new ones, and deliver high-impact strategic and commercial propositions.
• Develop the team: Coach and develop junior colleagues, fostering a culture of collaboration, support, high performance and continuous improvement.
• Support business development: Contribute to proposals, brand building and origination of new opportunities in the region.
• Deliver high-quality engagements: Ensure excellence in project delivery and client management, including quality assurance, financial management and commercial oversight.

Your skills and experience 

• Professional experience: 5+ years of professional experience in the power and energy sector, gained as a strategy consultant or M&A advisor, in corporate development or M&A within an energy company, or as a principal investor in a private equity or infrastructure fund.
• Power sector understanding: A fundamental understanding of the power sector and its key value drivers, spanning conventional and renewable generation, storage and flexibility, networks, retail and supply, and low carbon infrastructure. Awareness of key players, projects and market drivers globally and particularly in the Iberian Peninsula.
• Strategy and transactions: Experience supporting growth strategy, market entry, commercial due diligence and other transaction-related engagements within the power and energy sector.
• Corporate finance toolkit: Strong valuation and financial modelling skills, comfort with business plans and financing structures, and experience assessing value creation across the asset life cycle.
• Commercial structures: Experience assessing routes to market for power generation and flexible assets, and designing business models in energy markets.
• Project leadership: Experience leading projects or workstreams, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing delivery, timelines and budgets.
• Analytical excellence: Strong analytical skills with the capability to develop hypotheses and draw conclusions within tight timeframes.
• Client relationship management: Ability to build trusted client relationships, operate effectively in client-facing environments and engage confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Languages: Professional fluency in Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 days every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.