Corporate Development Manager

Corporate Development Manager

Carbon Clean

London, United Kingdom

The Role

The Corporate Development Manager will support Carbon Cleans capital formation and inorganic growth activities, contributing to funding rounds, strategic partnerships, and investment decisions. You will translate complex and incomplete information into rigorous financial and investment cases, supporting the VP, Corporate Development and the executive team with high-quality analysis and insight. The role manages core corporate finance work including financial analysis, project and transaction modelling, and product-level unit economics, while also supporting FP&A with modelling and scenario analysis, and Legal with shareholder analysis.

Success in this role will be defined by the quality, clarity, and reliability of financial analysis supporting capital raising and strategic decisions, and the efficient execution of funding and transaction processes.

Role Focus:

• 50–60%: Capital raising, investor materials, diligence, financial modelling.
• 25–30%: Corporate finance frameworks, LCOC, scenario modelling.
• 10–20%: Partnerships and strategy support.

Responsibilities consist of but not limited to...

Corporate Development Execution (Funding, Strategy & Transactions):

• Execute corporate development initiatives across funding, strategy, and transactions.
• Prepare high-quality investor, board, and transaction materials (IMs, presentations, supporting analysis).
• Support funder relationships by tracking inbound interest, mapping mandates, and informing engagement strategy.
• Co-develop investment cases across financing structures, partnerships, and M&A opportunities.
• Manage data rooms and coordinate internal/external diligence processes.
• Partner with external advisers (banks, legal, consultants) on models, structures, and financing vehicles.
• Lead M&A and selective inorganic analysis, including valuation, diligence, and clear recommendation synthesis.

Corporate Finance, Analysis & Modelling Excellence:

• Build robust, defensible financial models across projects, transactions, and products with clear assumptions.
• Enhance modelling efficiency, automation, and data quality across Corporate Development.
• Provide analytical input to levelised costs, corporate planning, and strategic decision-making.
• Support broader modelling needs (planning, opportunity evaluation, JV analysis, proposition modelling).
• Translate complex analysis into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

Portfolio Advancement & Partnership Development:

• Collaborate cross-functionally to maintain a deep understanding of project and opportunity pipelines.
• Identify and support partnerships across the value chain (transport, sequestration, utilisation).
• Build relationships across the ecosystem (banks, infrastructure/transition funds, industry partners).
• Support development of long-term roadmaps and investment recommendations for executives.

Team Contribution & Leadership:

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and quality review across team outputs.
• Coordinate workstreams across analysts and associates while maintaining a strong individual contribution (~70–80%).
• Build strong internal relationships and organisational trust.

You are an ideal candidate if…

• You have a background in corporate development, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity/infrastructure, or transactional FP&A, with direct exposure to funding, transactions, or strategic analysis.
• You have experience in energy transition, industrials, or infrastructure; exposure to carbon capture or decarbonisation economics is advantageous.
• You have a strong understanding of capital raising processes, including investor materials, diligence coordination, and working with external advisers.
• You have advanced financial modelling capability across project and corporate finance, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• You can translate complex or incomplete data into structured, decision-ready insights.
• You have a strong grasp of project economics, key value drivers, and cost curves (e.g., LCOC) for capital-intensive sectors.
• You're comfortable working with large, imperfect datasets and forming robust assumptions; experience with data tools (including generative AI) is a plus.
• You have experience supporting M&A, joint ventures, partnerships, or other inorganic growth initiatives, including valuation and diligence.
• You're familiar engaging with investment banks, legal counsel, and consultants through transaction or funding processes.
• You're a clear and structured communicator, able to distil analysis into executive-level insights.
• You're highly organised, capable of managing multiple workstreams with competing priorities.
• You hold a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field; an MBA, CFA, CPA, or equivalent qualification is strongly preferred.