Senior Consultant, Advisory (Financial Sponsors)

About the Company

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers, AECOM delivers projects that create positive, tangible impact worldwide. The firm had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025 and is a Fortune 500 company.

About the Role

AECOM is hiring Senior Consultant-level professionals for its Management Consulting – Financial Sponsors team in New York, NY. This client-facing, deal-oriented practice supports commercial and technical due diligence, market assessments, and post-acquisition value creation for private equity and infrastructure fund clients. The role offers direct exposure to live M&A transactions and regular interaction with private equity deal teams. Senior Consultants co-lead engagements, client relationships, and team development. This position is based in AECOM's New York office with a hybrid schedule requiring 4 days per week in-person.

Responsibilities

• Support buy-side and sell-side commercial due diligence for private equity and infrastructure fund clients, including market sizing, competitive analysis, ESG and sustainability topics, and expert/customer interviews
• Build 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, including 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 and Consultants staffed on engagements

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 6 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); or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Experience demonstrating numerical reasoning and quantitative skills
• Experience demonstrating analytical, logical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills, employing abstraction techniques to solve ambiguous client problems, and ingest and parse 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
• Established relationships with private equity or infrastructure fund clients, and a track record contributing to business development

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life, AD&D, and disability benefits
• Paid time off and leaves of absence
• Voluntary benefits and perks
• Flexible work options
• Well-being resources and employee assistance program
• Business travel insurance
• Service recognition awards
• Retirement savings plan
• Employee stock purchase plan

Pay

Offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The range for this position is $130,000 to $200,000 per year.

Schedule

Hybrid work model: based in AECOM's New York, NY office with 4 days per week in-person requirement. Domestic travel as needed for client engagements.

Additional Information

This position will not offer sponsorship assistance now or in the future. Relocation assistance is not available. AECOM intends to fill this position by October 29, 2026. All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment. Requisition ID: J10159222; Business Line: Advisory; Business Group: DCS; Strategic Business Unit: East; Career Area: Consulting Services.