PPP Financial Modelling Training Course

This five-day intensive takes participants from a blank workbook to a fully integrated threestatement PPP financial model, complete with sculpted senior debt, a cash waterfall, reserve accounts and a sensitivity and scenario framework, all built around a live infrastructure case study.

Governments across Africa are turning to public-private partnerships to close persistent infrastructure financing gaps, from toll roads and power plants to water utilities and social infrastructure. Yet a PPP only reaches financial close if its financial model can withstand scrutiny from lenders, credit committees and government negotiators, each reading the same workbook for a different weakness. A model that looks reasonable in summary but breaks down under a lender's sensitivity case, or that hides a circular reference a credit committee later exposes, will stall a transaction at the worst possible moment and erode confidence in the wider deal team.

This course is built for the people who build, review or negotiate around these models, whether they sit inside a government PPP unit, a bank's project finance desk or an infrastructure developer's finance team. It is hands-on and Excel-based throughout, moving participants from a blank workbook to a fully integrated, sculpted and stress-tested PPP financial model using a single running case study across the five days. By the close of the programme, participants are not just able to follow someone else's model; they can build, defend and interrogate one of their own.

• Construct a fully integrated PPP financial model linking construction, operations and financing.
• Structure a realistic revenue module reflecting availability payments, demand risk or hybrid mechanisms.
• Size senior debt using DSCR and LLCR-based sculpting techniques.
• Design a cash waterfall incorporating reserve accounts and distribution tests.
• Evaluate project and equity returns using IRR, NPV and payback measures.
• Test model robustness through sensitivity and scenario analysis on key risk variables.
• Assess the impact of refinancing and change-in-scope events on a live model.
• Apply model audit and good-practice modelling standards to reduce circularity and error risk.
• Defend a financial model's assumptions and outputs to lenders, government negotiators and credit committees.

This course is suitable for:

• Financial modellers and analysts working on PPP and infrastructure transactions
• Project finance officers at banks, DFIs and export credit agencies
• PPP unit staff and government transaction advisers
• Infrastructure investment and asset management professionals
• Corporate finance teams at infrastructure developers and contractors
• Advisory and consulting professionals supporting PPP transactions
• Treasury and risk professionals assessing project finance exposure
• Auditors and regulators reviewing PPP financial submissions

This programme is delivered through a practical, hands-on approach centred on a single infrastructure project case study that runs throughout the five days. Participants will build and refine financial models in Excel through live facilitator demonstrations, guided modelling exercises and independent practice. Learning is reinforced through peer model reviews, structured problem-solving activities and case-based negotiation simulations drawn from real African PPP and infrastructure transactions, ensuring participants leave with practical skills they can apply immediately.

This training strengthens organisational capability to:

• Faster, more reliable review of PPP financial models submitted by bidders or advisers.
• Reduced dependence on external consultants for routine model checks.
• Stronger negotiating position at financial close through in-house modelling capability.
• Improved detection of unrealistic or aggressive assumptions before financial close.
• Better-quality PPP proposals from teams applying consistent modelling standards.
• Faster turnaround on model queries during due diligence and credit approval.
• Reduced financial and reputational risk from errors in submitted models.
• Stronger institutional capacity to support a pipeline of PPP transactions.
• Improved consistency across transactions through shared modelling practice.

Participants will gain the knowledge and practical skills to:

• Build genuine confidence navigating an Excel-based PPP model from a blank sheet.
• Command the specific vocabulary used in lender and government financial negotiations.
• Strengthen credibility when presenting model outputs to senior decision-makers.
• Reduce reliance on external modellers for routine analysis and review.
• Improve career mobility across banking, PPP units and infrastructure advisory roles.
• Sharpen judgement in spotting weak or manipulated assumptions in a model.
• Gain a transferable modelling discipline applicable beyond PPP transactions.
• Increase speed and accuracy when working under transaction deadlines.
• Build a professional network of peers working across African PPP markets.

At Strategic Revenue Africa, our certification goes beyond proof of attendance—it represents practical competence and measurable capability. Upon successful completion of our training programs, participants are awarded a Certificate of Completion from Strategic Revenue Africa, recognizing their ability to apply acquired knowledge in real-world settings. As an organization focused on architecting sustainable revenue and strengthening organizational performance, our certifications signal that participants are equipped with skills that drive results, not just theory.

Working knowledge of Excel and core corporate finance concepts, including time value of money, IRR and NPV, is expected. Prior modelling experience is useful but not required, as the course rebuilds a model from first principles