Financial models do not exist in a vacuum. They exist to help illustrate, structure and price real life projects. Therefore, they must commercially reflect these projects – both in the inputs they take and in how those inputs are used.
Financial modellers also do not exist in a vacuum. A good financial modeller must interface seamlessly with the other teams working on the project to ensure that the information and approaches in the model align with reality.
Here at Operis, we excel at being the interface between the project and the spreadsheet to ensure that nothing gets lost in translation.
Understanding Your Deal
As you would expect, our team is completely fluent with the formulae used within financial models. Far more importantly, however, our wide range of experience means that we are also fluent in the physical and commercial concepts that underpin these projects – electricity generation and wasteflows, bonds and refinancings, tax and capital allowances. We can interface with your team and translate those high-level discussions into a financial model.
Our clients value the way we work alongside them to ensure that the models we build are a tool that aids better understanding and better decision making.
“Thank you for the time and input you have had in helping us understand our business, we feel your assistance has been invaluable, the whole team are world class, and we fully expect to lean on you in the future when any related project need your expertise, and would not hesitate to recommend you to our contacts in the future.”
Understanding Your Needs
The results coming out of a model must of course be reliable, but they must also be timely. There are many moving parts in project finance transactions. Negotiations of commercial points and drafting of documentation need to both feed into the model and be shaped by the model’s outputs.
Our large and experienced modelling team is well versed in the timelines and constraints involved. With our teams located in person in London and Toronto we can work closely together, making it possible to grow and shrink the team working on your deal according to the timeline involved and work required.
Each assignment is led by a manager or director within Operis’s team, who works closely with the client to ensure we always understand your milestones and deadlines. We build relationships as well as spreadsheets, and it’s important to us that we can always deliver what you need when you need it.
“Operis’s support was instrumental in helping us get this major deal over the line. Their ability to deliver the required analysis under time pressure was hugely important.”
Financial Modelling Expertise
Operis has worked on over 1,640 deals across the infrastructure and energy / renewables space. We build transaction models and operating models, portfolio models and single asset models. We have experience across many different geographies including Europe, America, Africa and the Middle East. We work across sectors including power and renewables, telecommunications, university accommodation, hospitals and transport. Our clients come to us when they need an expert in financial modelling who can apply that expertise to their deal and produce the right numbers to support good decision making.
“Given the size and complexity of the new Velindre Cancer Centre (nVCC) and need to demonstrate value for money, Operis were instrumental in putting together a banking group to provide the senior debt, equity bridge loan and the interest rate hedging. Operis were at the forefront of the financial solution utilising their PPP expertise to enable a highly successful financial solution for the project. The project was challenging, Operis took a personal interest in the project and were always at hand to help and find solutions. We could not have got to FC without the Operis team”
The Operis team is expert in its field and loves working with others who are experts in theirs. If you need a financial modelling partner to support your project, then do give us a call.
