Malander is seeking an immediately available, experienced Transaction Structuring professional to lead the structuring of a material capital transaction, from strategic concept through commercial alignment, financing, and investor engagement. This is a senior advisory role within a multidisciplinary transaction team.

About the Role
You'll take a leading role in shaping the transaction's structure and supporting high-level negotiations, integrating ownership, funding, governance, regulatory, and counterparty considerations into an executable framework.

Key Responsibilities:

Determining the optimal transaction and financial structure, including ownership, consideration, and funding alternatives
Evaluating alternative ownership, financing, and structured solutions and their impact on transaction economics
Coordinating closely with the financial modelling workstream to test structural alternatives and investment outcomes
Developing high-level operating and governance architecture, decision rights, and key commercial provisions for definitive agreements
Coordinating regulatory and cross-border compliance considerations with legal and specialist advisers
Supporting counterparty negotiations, term-sheet development, counterproposals, senior stakeholder workshops, and strategic capital engagement

What You'll Need

Non-negotiable: direct, material oil and gas transaction experience, with evidenced senior structuring or project-finance delivery in oil and gas/energy — ideally involving large capital projects, infrastructure, ownership, and funding structures, or comparable complex transactions
Qualified Chartered Accountant (SA)
Senior experience in transaction structuring, corporate finance, project finance, or investment banking on complex, capital-intensive transactions
Strong command of ownership, financing, governance, risk allocation, and structured solutions
Ability to bridge finance, legal, commercial, and operating workstreams, converting analysis into executable transaction terms
Established credibility with boards, investors, financiers, regulators, legal advisers, and senior counterparties, including hands-on negotiation and term-sheet experience

Availability Requirement

Non-negotiable: availability for recurring international travel, with a minimum of five working days per month on site in the project country.

Transaction Structuring Lead