# Senior Principal Consultant, Transaction & Investment Advisory

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Ottawa, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $177,000 – $234,400
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Join WSP's Transaction & Investment Advisory team and play a key role in supporting strategic transactions that shape infrastructure, energy, and community development projects across Canada.

In this role, you will contribute to high-impact investment decisions by providing financial, commercial, and strategic analysis that informs clients and internal stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead transaction and investment advisory engagements across the full deal lifecycle, providing strategic direction from opportunity identification and screening through execution and post-transaction evaluation.

- Drive and oversee financial models, investment cases, and valuation scenarios to support sound, data-driven decision-making.

- Direct multidisciplinary due diligence processes, coordinating financial, commercial, technical, operational, environmental, ESG, and risk assessments to identify value drivers and key transaction considerations.

- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and senior stakeholders by preparing and delivering executive-level investment recommendations, strategic insights, and decision-support materials.

- Provide thought leadership on market trends, sector dynamics, investment themes, and comparable transactions to inform client strategies and business growth initiatives.

- Lead client relationship development and business development activities, contributing to strategic pursuits, key proposals, and the expansion of transaction and investment advisory services.

- Drive the continuous enhancement of advisory methodologies, analytical tools, and transaction frameworks to improve quality, consistency, and delivery excellence across engagements.

- Partner with leaders and subject matter experts across engineering, advisory, finance, and infrastructure sectors to align technical and financial perspectives and deliver integrated client solutions.

- Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering technical excellence, professional growth, knowledge sharing, and a high-performing collaborative culture.

**Requirements:**

- University degree in finance, economics, business administration, engineering, or a related field.

- 15+ years of relevant experience in transactions, corporate finance, investment analysis, or consulting/advisory.

- Strong expertise in financial modeling, technical due-diligence, valuation, and investment analysis.

- Background with management consulting firms is preferred.

- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and serving as a senior client advisor on complex transactions.

- Proven experience in M&A, public-private partnerships (P3), infrastructure investment, or large capital projects.

- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights and recommendations.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting to senior audiences.

- A collaborative mindset and demonstrated ability to lead in fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments.

**What We Offer:**

- Competitive salary: $177,000 – $234,400 (varies by location).

- Flexible work arrangements and real balance.

- Opportunities for growth and professional development.

- A global community of brilliant minds.

## Skills

### Required
- financial modeling
- investment analysis
- due diligence
- strategic advisory

### Nice to have
- management consulting
- M&A
- public-private partnerships
- infrastructure investment

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