Senior Manager, Corporate Restructuring (LIT)

Natural Factors; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Vancouver seeks a Senior Manager in Restructuring. This role offers significant growth opportunities and requires strong leadership and financial acumen. The successful candidate will manage complex restructuring portfolios and foster client relationships, contributing to the firm's expansion across British Columbia.

Benefits

Profit sharing

Flex days

RRSP contributions

Wellness benefits

Concierge-like benefits

Work from anywhere in Canada for four weeks

Qualifications

• 5+ years of advisory experience in a Canadian professional services firm.
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of all insolvency proceedings.
• Strong management and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing a complex corporate restructuring portfolio.
• Assessing viability of diverse business entities.
• Stakeholder communication and negotiation.

Skills

Leadership

Financial Acumen

Client Development

Education

Bachelor’s or advanced level degree

CPA

CIRP Qualification

Job description

Who We Are

You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Doane Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ over 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.

Our Values

At Doane Grant Thornton we hold a strong commitment to collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect, and responsibility.

A career in Advisory Services with Doane Grant Thornton:

As a Senior Manager in Restructuring, you will play an important role in shaping the future of our practice where excellence and meaningful connections intersect. This role is more than just a job; it is a significant growth opportunity that prepares you for a leadership position.

If you’re an experienced Corporate LIT with a market-oriented mindset and exceptional leadership abilities, this opportunity is tailor-made for you. As we expand our market reach across British Columbia, your entrepreneurial spirit will play a pivotal role.

Our senior team are renowned national insolvency practitioners, with impressive credentials and a track record of technical excellence, business results, and effective leadership. By joining us, you’ll tap into a vast network of resources and expertise from practitioners across Canada. Your hands-on management approach and strong leadership skills will empower others to reach their professional aspirations, promoting a dynamic and motivating team environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing a complex corporate restructuring portfolio, and in so doing, effectively manage engagement files, including overseeing a professional, technical, and administrative team
• Assessing the viability of diverse business entities across various industries
• Providing oversight and control of business operations and asset sales
• Evaluating complex business issues and formulate recommendations for the Court and various stakeholders to maximize creditor recoveries, while maintaining the business viability where possible.
• Prepare written reports for the Court and other stakeholders, in accordance with the mandate of the file.
• Work closely with legal counsel to handle the legal elements of each restructuring mandate
• Stakeholder communication and negotiation – effectively interact with stakeholders with diverse interests on file engagements (creditors, debtors, lawyers, lenders, etc.) for creditors and legal inquiries
• Building and maintaining positive relationships with other corporate restructuring professionals including lawyers, regulators, investors and representatives of lending institutions. Actively participate in industry organizations, events, firm marketing initiatives generate new corporate restructuring mandates and build a strong practice in BC
• Financial Oversight - Tracking project progress, milestones, and deadlines, reviewing invoices, preparing payments and handling trust account duties; preparing summary of receipts and disbursements for trust accounts
• Maintaining a high level of professional competence and staying current with in all technical and legal elements of a corporate restructuring practice
• Risk Management - Adhere to all firm risk management policies and take proactive steps to minimize the risk exposure to the firm.
• Ad Hoc projects utilizing your accounting skills and business acumen in a variety of unique, challenging, one-off, real-time assignments

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Senior Manager, Restructuring? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:

Education

Completion of a Bachelor’s or advanced level degree (Masters) and professional accounting designation (CPA)

Completion of a Chartered Insolvency and Restructuring Professional (CIRP) Qualification Program and a Licensed Insolvency Trustee (LIT) or entering the program to be designated

Experience and Attributes:

• 5+ years of advisory experience in a Canadian professional services firm, leading and conducting complex restructuring and insolvency proceedings
• Insolvency Expertise: Possess comprehensive knowledge of all insolvency proceedings.
• Financial Acumen: Understands key performance indicators and financial reporting.
• Proficiency in File Acquisition/File Administration and File Closure

• Demonstrated client development skills with a focus on building relationships and actively anticipating client and market needs. Enjoys the social aspect of marketing to key targets.
• Nurture alumni connections: Strengthen your professional network by maintaining relationships with alumni.
• Actively participate in professional, industry or community organization events
• Expand brand reach: Develop connections with bankers, lawyers, trustees, credit counsellors, and other potential referral sources to promote firm

Ethical Compliance: Uphold the firm’s ethical standards and code of conduct for Trustees.

Strong management and leadership skills with the ability to be an active participant in the development of the team and the broader Advisory practice

Desire to learn and grow, and be an integral part of a team that puts “we before me”, where agility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back

At Doane Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.

What's in it for you?

At Doane Grant Thornton, we’re committed to ensuring our compensation practices are fair, equitable and competitive. To get the conversation started, we’re pleased to share that our current base salary for this role ranges from $90,000-$178,000, plus profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, firmwide holiday closures, wellness and concierge-like benefits, and an opportunity to work from anywhere in Canada for four weeks during the summer, and so much more!

Our special culture shines through when we have the opportunity to connect in person. That’s why we’re working in a model where teams are required to be together in the office 4 days per week.

Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?

Doane Grant Thornton is committed to employment equity, human rights and respectful workplace principles throughout the life cycle of employment, including at the recruitment and hiring stages. We welcome applications from members of all equity deserving groups, including persons with disabilities, women, racialized and/or Indigenous applicants. Should you require accommodation in relation to the recruitment process, please notify us by emailing and we will work with you to meet your accommodation needs.