Consultant, Advisory (Financial Sponsors)

AECOM · New York, NY, United States

  • Junior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-22
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job Description
AECOM is hiring 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: Consultants support engagements, client relationships, and team development. We are recruiting for this role in New York, NY (in-person 4-days a week).
As a 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.

• Support in building 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 staffed on engagements.

Qualifications
Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree and at least 4 years of management consulting or related experience (e.g., technical consulting, analyst roles in business, public policy, economics research, private equity, investment banking or corporate strategy experience); or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

• Experience demonstrating numerical reasoning and quantitative skills.

• Experience demonstrating logical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills, employing abstraction techniques to solve ambiguous client problems, and ingest and parse out large volumes of client information.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA/ MPA or other advanced degree in a related field.

• Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and developing understanding of client industries and their context.

• Experience in management consulting, transaction advisory, investment banking, corporate development, or private equity, with direct exposure to due diligence or M&A processes.

• Working proficiency in financial modeling and quantitative analysis in Excel.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, client-ready deliverables.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, deal environment while managing multiple priorities.

• Ability to travel domestically as needed for client engagements.

• Prior experience directly supporting private equity or financial sponsor clients on commercial or technical due diligence.

• Background or strong interest in infrastructure-related sectors, including engineering & construction, environmental services, energy, utilities, or industrials.

• Experience with data visualization and presentation tools (PowerPoint, Tableau, or similar).

• Experience managing junior staff or coordinating workstreams on deal teams.

• Preferred if established relationships with private equity or infrastructure fund cli

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