Assistant Director, Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy, Leeds

at  EY

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES FOR SUCCESS

• Financial analysis and scenario modelling to support decision making and awareness of the key drivers of corporate failure or underperformance.
• Commercial acumen –using knowledge and insight gained from client work and apply your understanding of the wider business environment.
• Able to identify key issues on assignments and suggest workable solutions.
• Experienced in presenting findings clearly in reports and other deliverables to clients.
• Ability to share technical and other knowledge with the team drawing on previous experience and current learning.
• Demonstrate professionalism and confidence to deal with a range of stakeholder groups and management teams.
• Good project management skills, with the ability to manage more than one assignment at a time and yet still demonstrate quality and consistency of performance in every task.
• Adapt well to change and have a flexible and positive approach.
• Desire to support the people development of TRS – contributing to or leading training courses, recruitment, and team / wellbeing activities.
• Strong appreciation of risk management.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, ambitious, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful transaction team where we encourage everyone to bring their whole self to work. Being a collaborative team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly throughout a period of growth within TRS.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Restructuring Assistant Director, you’ll manage the restructuring engagement by defining the engagement scope, in consultation with the Director / Partner, and executing it in compliance with our policies and protocols.
You will take responsibility for leading engagements, reporting to the engagement Partner or Director, project managing the rest of the team, coordinating deliverables from teams tasked to deal with discreet aspects of assignments, communicating issues to the Partner / Director and driving the project to completion with limited supervision from the Partner / Director.
We’ll want you to be active in establishing and nurturing relationships – both inside EY with different specialist teams across the firm, and externally – for example with client staff or lawyers – as relationship-building is an important and valued skill in TRS.
You will also fit in to our positive learning culture from day one. You will bring your existing skills/knowledge and coach people in these where that is relevant and applicable to our work, and you will be valued for your efforts to coach and counsel team members to help them develop.

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE YOU MUST HAVE

• Track record within a recognised Restructuring team for a minimum of 5 years and have been a manager for a minimum of 2 years or promoted to senior manager.
• Experience of leading independent business reviews and formal corporate insolvencies.
• Professional accountancy qualification.
• The ability to build strong external relationships within the Restructuring market and across other services, and can actively participate in business development.
• Appreciation of the risks inherent in advising distressed businesses and their stakeholders.