Corporate Recovery Insolvency Practitioner

Imperium Financial Recruitment; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperium Financial Recruitment is supporting an Oldham-based firm to recruit a Corporate Recovery Insolvency Practitioner. The role focuses on taking corporate insolvency appointments, guiding case strategy, and delivering quality case outcomes without the need to win new work.

Applicants should be licensed Insolvency Practitioners with strong leadership, technical insight, and experience managing complex assignments.

Qualifications

• Licensed Insolvency Practitioner with appropriate authorisation to take corporate insolvency appointments.
• Strong background in corporate insolvency and recovery.
• Experience managing complex assignments and overseeing case delivery.
• Clear communication skills and ability to manage sensitive stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Take corporate insolvency appointments and provide direction to the team.
• Oversee assignments from pre-appointment planning through to closure.
• Provide technical leadership on administrations, liquidations and corporate recovery matters.
• Review financial information and consider options for distressed businesses.
• Oversee asset realisations, investigations, and creditor distributions.
• Monitor case progression, budgets, and fee recovery.
• Ensure compliance, case quality, and professional standards.

Skills

Corporate insolvency

Leadership

Case management

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Licensed Insolvency Practitioner

Job description

Corporate Recovery Insolvency Practitioner

Location: Oldham

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Business development: No requirement to generate new work

Focus on leading appointments, delivering quality casework and developing a team-with no work-winning requirement.

Imperium Financial Recruitment is recruiting a Corporate Recovery Insolvency Practitioner for an exciting new position with a firm based in Oldham.

This opportunity would suit a licensed Insolvency Practitioner who enjoys the technical, operational and leadership aspects of insolvency. With no requirement to bring an existing client following or generate new instructions, you can concentrate on overseeing appointments and achieving effective case outcomes.

Applications are welcomed from experienced appointment takers and newly licensed practitioners ready to take on greater responsibility, subject to their experience.

The role

You will take corporate insolvency appointments and provide clear direction to the team, combining independent professional judgement with practical oversight of case strategy and delivery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking appointments across corporate insolvency procedures, appropriate to your authorisation and experience.
• Assessing prospective appointments and making informed decisions on acceptance, case strategy and resource requirements.
• Overseeing assignments from pre-appointment planning through to closure.
• Providing technical leadership on administrations, liquidations and other corporate recovery matters.
• Reviewing company financial information and considering available options for distressed businesses.
• Overseeing asset realisations, investigations, recovery actions, creditor claims and distributions.
• Reviewing and approving statutory reports, key correspondence and significant case decisions.
• Managing relationships with directors, creditors, lenders, solicitors, agents and other advisers.
• Supervising managers and case administrators, providing guidance on complex matters.
• Monitoring case progression, budgets, work in progress and fee recovery.
• Maintaining appropriate oversight of compliance, case quality and professional standards.
• Supporting team development and improvements to operational processes.

About you

You must be a licensed Insolvency Practitioner with the appropriate authorisation to take corporate insolvency appointments.

You will also bring:

• A strong background in corporate insolvency and recovery.
• Sound technical knowledge and the ability to exercise independent professional judgement.
• Experience managing complex assignments and overseeing case delivery.
• Strong leadership skills and the confidence to guide and challenge colleagues constructively.
• A commercial approach to case strategy, asset recoveries and financial management.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to manage sensitive stakeholder relationships.
• A commitment to ethical practice, accurate reporting and high standards of case administration.

Previous appointment-taking experience would be advantageous. Newly licensed practitioners with substantial corporate insolvency and management experience are also encouraged to apply.

An existing introducer network, client following or track record of winning work is not required.

The opportunity

This position offers the chance to build your career around the work of an Insolvency Practitioner: taking appointments, directing case strategy and developing the people delivering it.

You will have scope to influence technical standards, strengthen working practices and contribute to the firm's development through the quality of your leadership and case oversight.