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Find out more about Amberside Advisors

A little about who we are, our story and how we work.

Who we are

Amberside Advisors specialises in financial and commercial advisory

for critical infrastructure, renewables, and energy transition.

We partner with investors, developers, and operators, delivering real-world solutions and actionable advice. Our teams simplify complexity, combining commercial acumen, transactional excellence and granular industry expertise with comprehensive financial modelling and insightful data analytics.

Across core and digital infrastructure, renewables, and decentralised energy, we drive innovation and shape new markets. Advising on major transformational projects across public and private sectors. Evaluating strategy effectiveness, providing vital financial and operational transparency,

and helping our clients make the right investment decisions.

With two decades of experience and a team of 50 advisors, analysts and modellers, we are a trusted partner to all our clients. We provide robust, independent advice, rigorous analysis, and simple decision-making tools,

optimising performance and creating value at every stage.

Amberside Advisors part of Steer

Being part of the Steer Group

Founded in 1978, Steer is a global consultancy specialising in the critical services and infrastructure that make our world work.

​As part of Steer since 2022, Amberside Advisors works in close collaboration with clients and colleagues, leveraging Steer’s deep industry experience, real-world insight, and global perspective.

Together, we’re trusted to deliver powerful solutions that make a measurable difference to our clients, the communities we work in and the world we share.

How we work

Whilst our industry-renowned financial models are at the core of our business and the heart of many of our projects, it’s the combination of our experience across industries, deal size and type, that enables us to deliver exceptional advisory services. We pride ourselves on building models that provide usable and useful information, often forming the basis of our commercial advice.

Through our partnership with Steer, we serve a global client base through 26 offices across four continents.  We value our close working relationships with our clients and thrive on providing robust advice, often on complex issues, based on our detailed knowledge and rigorous understanding of the project.

Amberside Advisors makes projects deliverable and fundable.

Amberside Advisors team working
Amberside Advisors leadership team

Our net zero commitment

Steer is committed to successfully operating as a net zero carbon company by 2025.  As part of the Steer Group, we share that ambition.

We aim to be net zero carbon by 2025 and near zero carbon by 2030, through less than 50% offsetting, and only with offsetting that is local to our operations, and that is consistent with our social values.

Our aim is to embody decarbonisation and wider sustainable development goals through all aspects of how we work, in our strategies, our planning, and our day-to-day activities.

Our social impact

We believe in sharing experience and best practice with our communities and clients – from in-depth research through to time-saving ‘shortcuts’. As part of Steer, we focus on three key areas that have deep social impact:

Social

responsibility​

​We take our role in helping people, places and economies thrive seriously, with social and cultural responsibilities forming foundations to our culture and values.

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Equality, diversity

& inclusivity

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Vitally important to us – helping us better serve our employees, clients and our communities.

Social value & community engagement

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We encourage each other to contribute positively to our local communities and environments.

History of Amberside Advisors

Meet the team
Neil Rutledge, Director at Amberside Advisors

Neil Rutledge

Director

Paul Austin, Director at Amberside Advisors

Paul Austin

Director

Vicki Hawes, Chief People Officer at Amberside Advisors

Vicki Hawes

Chief People Officer

Nazim Uddin, Director at Amberside Advisors

Nazim Uddin

Director

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Thinking about joining Amberside Advisors?

Be part of a great team.  In our annual survey this year, 97% of our people expressed that 'they like working here'. We know how to create productive working environment with positive and collaborative culture.

Ready to start your career with an industry-leading company? Or looking to take your career to new, challenging heights?

Useful tools

Here you’ll find quick links to essential Excel Keyboard Shortcuts, plus a useful Explode Add-in – essential if you’re a daily Excel user:

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