For more than 20 years, KordaMentha has supported businesses through some of their most complex matters and opportunities. Founder owned and led; we are an advisory firm that helps corporations, financiers, lawyers, private investors and government clients to grow, protect and recover value.

That’s what we do, but it’s how we do this that makes us who we are.

Proudly independent, strategically local, and with a bias for action to get things done, we focus on doing what is right by our clients, our people, and the wider community. Our track record shows that we help navigate the best path forward in challenging times, and do so across cities, regions and territories.

In the most stressful or demanding environments, we continue to drive change where it really counts.

For more than 20 years, KordaMentha has supported businesses through some of their most complex matters and opportunities. Founder owned and led; we are an advisory firm that helps corporations, financiers, lawyers, private investors and government clients to grow, protect and recover value.

That’s what we do, but it’s how we do this that makes us who we are.

Proudly independent, strategically local, and with a bias for action to get things done, we focus on doing what is right by our clients, our people, and the wider community. Our track record shows that we help navigate the best path forward in challenging times, and do so across cities, regions and territories.

In the most stressful or demanding environments, we continue to drive change where it really counts.

Job Description

Australia’s energy transition is reshaping the way organisations think about strategy, investment, regulation, operating models, technology and delivery.



KordaMentha’s Energy Advisory team helps clients move from intent to execution, providing practical, commercially grounded advice across a quick-moving and complex market.

We are looking for an Associate Director to join our Energy Advisory team and take a leading role in shaping client opportunities, delivering complex engagements and contributing to the continued growth of the practice.

This is a senior opportunity for an advisory professional who brings energy sector depth, strong commercial judgement, trusted client relationships and the confidence to lead work that matters.

As an Associate Director, you will work alongside genuine energy experts on practical, outcome-focused engagements across Australia’s changing energy system. You will help clients make transparent decisions in complex environments, balancing commercial outcomes, reliability, affordability, policy, regulation, technology and delivery considerations.

You will:

- Lead and grow trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, becoming a credible point of contact beyond a single engagement.
- Identify and shape new opportunities for clients and the practice, contributing to business development, proposals, marketing activities and industry events.
- Frame complex commercial, regulatory, operational and technology problems, and direct the analysis needed to solve them.




- Own the quality of written reports, presentations and client deliverables from end to end, ensuring findings and recommendations are clear, evidence-based and defensible.
- Independently lead engagements, managing scope, time, commercials and risk.
- Build depth in one or more energy domains and bring a point of view on energy transition, market reform and emerging practice.
- Coach and develop more junior team members, both on and beyond your own engagements.

Qualifications

You are a commercially minded advisory professional with strong technical capability, sound judgement and the ability to lead complex engagements. You are confident working with senior stakeholders, shaping opportunities and delivering practical recommendations in complex environments.

You will bring:

- 7-10 years of relevant energy and utilities experience in the private sector or government, for example in consulting, advisory, professional services, government infrastructure teams or in-house energy teams, ideally with energy or wider infrastructure exposure.
- Credible depth in one or more energy and utility sectors, such as generation, networks, retail, gas or water.
- Strong judgement across complex commercial, regulatory, operational or technology problems.
- Experience across diverse range of energy advisory engagements, spanning strategy, transformation, regulation, capital investment and project/program delivery challenges.
- Business development acumen, including shaping and winning proposals, understanding commercial positioning and managing profitable engagements.
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills, with advanced Microsoft Excel capability.
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📌 Associate Director (Sydney)
🏢 KordaMentha Pty
📍 Sydney