Manager, Restructuring (m/f/d)

Interpath; Düsseldorf; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Interpath, an international advisory, launched its Germany practice in January 2025, delivering Restructuring, Debt Advisory and Value Creation. As a Manager in the Restructuring & Advisory team, you will lead workstreams within client groups to support companies underperforming or facing liquidity pressures.

You will develop robust financial models, evaluate business plans, craft actionable restructuring options and implement them, while coaching junior colleagues, collaborating with MDs across

Qualifications

• Strong academic background in finance and restructuring.
• Advanced financial analysis skills and 3-statement modelling experience.
• Native German and fluent English (C1) essential; other European languages advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Stabilize a client’s financial and operating performance and negotiate with lenders.
• Diagnose current situation, prospects, and liquidity forecasting.
• Assess business plans, identify risks and opportunities, and develop alternative solutions.
• Write and implement restructuring plans with integrated financial models.
• Lead and coach junior colleagues to enhance restructuring skills.

Skills

German (C1)

English (C1)

Financial analysis

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's/MBA in Finance or related

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Financial modelling software

Job description

Interpath is an international and fast-growing advisory business with deep expertise in a broad range of specialisms spanning deals, advisory and restructuring capabilities.

We deliver tangible results for global businesses, their investors, and stakeholders when complex problems arise, and critical decisions need to be made. Interpath is agile, independent, and conflict-free, and our passion for doing what’s right, every time, sets us apart.

Our diverse teams provide specialist technical knowledge combined with deep sector experience across our service line specialisms. Since our foundation in 2021, Interpath has grown rapidly, and we now have a presence across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, BVI, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Barbados, Hong Kong, Singapore, India and South Africa. By 2030 we aim to be one of the world’s leading advisory firms with a truly global footprint.

Interpath launched in Germany in January 2025, so this is a unique opportunity to be part of a new business within an established international company. Our German business is lead by a team of highly experienced MDs focused on delivering advisory services across Restructuring, Debt Advisory and Value Creation. Our MDs in Germany collaborate closely with their colleagues across Europe and globally to provide solutions to the complex issues facing business today.

As a Manager in the Restructuring & Advisory team, you will work with experienced colleagues to deliver multi-stakeholder, international and domestic restructuring & advisory engagements. The successful candidate will take ownership of workstreams within client facing teams to offer direct assistance to companies that are under-performing or experiencing a liquidity crisis.

Responsibilities will include:

• Stabilizing a client’s financial and operational performance preventing further cash leakage and negotiating with lenders
• Rapidly understanding a company’s current situation & prospects including a diagnostic assessment of critical business and market issues and liquidity forecasting
• Assessment of existing business plans & financial projections, identifying risks and opportunities
• Creation of robust alternative solutions for the businesses and its stakeholders
• Writing & implementing restructuring plans, including the creation of integrated financial models and short-term cash flow forecasting tools
• Managing & coaching junior colleagues to upskill their restructuring skills and knowledge and furthering their professional development

Examples of projects include:

• Financial and Operational Restructuring
• Distressed cross boarder M&A
• Cash & liquidity management and forecasting
• Cross-border wind-downs
• Preparation and validation of business plans
• Independent business reviews
• Short term cash flow forecasting
• Reporting Cost saving initiatives & Profit Improvement

Requirements

• Strong academic background with experience in a Restructuring team at a leading consultancy or Big Four
• Strong financial analysis skills and advanced experience in building a range of financial and 3-statement financial models
• Prior experience in some of the following; Creating Independent Business Reviews (IBRs), Liquidity analysis, Market assessment, Capital structure analysis, Options review and Cash flow analysis
• Native or business fluent German & English (C1) is essential. Additional European languages including French and Spanish are advantageous

At Interpath, our people lie at the heart of our business. That's why we provide employees with a competitive and comprehensive reward package including compelling salaries and a range of core and optional benefits. Read more about our benefits;

Values

Our four core values are the cornerstones of culture at Interpath and steer everything from everyday decisions to larger strategic initiatives. Our Interpath Values are;

Do the right thing - Our comfort zone is uncomfortable. We always make the right decision, not simply what is easy or popular.

All hands on deck - stand shoulder-to-shoulder with colleagues and clients, be that physically or from afar. Our individual expertise may find the answers, but implementation happens though teamwork.

Passion drives success - The impossible is always possible. We push the boundaries of what is expected because we're never satisfied with the status quo. Our clients expect the right result when they engage with us, and it's only by delivering this that we win.

Embrace different - cultures to mindsets, we welcome all. We believe that people are equal, but not the same.