Director, Restructuring (Advisory)

GMP Worldwide; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GMP Recruitment, partnering with a leading international advisory firm, seeks a Director for its Manchester Restructuring Advisory practice. The role offers ownership of engagements and significant leadership responsibility across the UK, with a focus on non-formal restructuring and advisory work.

You will originate and deliver engagements, supervise and develop juniors, and engage with corporates, lenders and sponsors. Strong client management and a robust network are essential.

Qualifications

• Significant restructuring and financial advisory experience.
• Experience taking assignments from origination through to completion.
• Strong financial analysis, cash-flow and forecasting capabilities.
• Commercial awareness around engagement economics, recoveries and billings.
• A demonstrable network and appetite for business development.

Responsibilities

• Own restructuring engagements from client conversation to delivery and review.
• Lead and develop junior team members.
• Prepare IBRs, cash-flow modelling, forecasting and financial analysis.
• Support debt refinancing and lender negotiations.
• Contribute to pitches, tenders and lender panels.
• Build relationships across the regional market and with stakeholders.

Skills

Restructuring experience

Financial advisory

Cash flow forecasting

Engagement economics

Business development

ACA/ACCA qualification

Mentoring teams

Stakeholder management

Education

ACA/ACCA or equivalent

Job description

Level: Director / Senior Manager ready to step up

Sector: Restructuring & Turnaround Advisory

Package: Highly competitive + benefits

GMP Recruitment is partnering with a leading international advisory firm to appoint a Director within its growing Restructuring Advisory practice in Manchester.

This is a senior, commercially focused appointment offering the opportunity to take a leading role in complex restructuring and turnaround assignments across the UK.

The successful individual will work with corporates, lenders, financial sponsors and other stakeholders in stressed and distressed situations, with a particular emphasis on non-formal restructuring and advisory work rather than purely formal insolvency appointments.

The Role

You will take ownership of restructuring engagements from the initial client conversation through to delivery and final review, working closely with senior leadership while managing and developing more junior members of the team.

Assignments will include:

• Independent Business Reviews (IBRs)
• Short-term cash-flow modelling and liquidity reviews
• Integrated financial forecasting
• Pre-lending and viability reviews
• Strategic and restructuring options reviews
• Debt refinancing and lender negotiations
• HMRC Time to Pay arrangements
• Accelerated M&A
• Wider turnaround and restructuring advisory assignments

Alongside delivery, this is a genuinely commercial role.

You will build relationships across the regional market, develop your own professional network and play an active part in winning new mandates. This will include contributing to pitches, tenders and lender panels as well as developing relationships with lenders, lawyers, investors and the wider professional-services community.

What We're Looking For

We are particularly interested in speaking with individuals currently operating at Senior Manager, Associate Director or Director level within Restructuring, Turnaround or a closely aligned Advisory practice.

You will ideally bring:

• Significant restructuring and financial advisory experience
• Experience taking responsibility for assignments from origination through to completion
• Strong financial analysis, cash-flow and forecasting capabilities
• Confidence managing senior clients, lenders and other stakeholders
• Experience supervising, mentoring and developing advisory teams
• Commercial awareness around engagement economics, recoveries and billings
• A demonstrable network and appetite for business development
• ACA, ACCA or an equivalent professional accounting qualification

Experience within a leading accountancy, restructuring or advisory firm would be particularly relevant. An insolvency qualification or formal insolvency experience would be advantageous, but the emphasis of this appointment is firmly on advisory, restructuring and turnaround capability.

Why Consider It?

This is an opportunity to join an established international advisory platform while playing a significant role in the continued development of its Manchester and wider UK Restructuring offering.

For somebody already established at Senior Manager or Associate Director level, there is an opportunity to step into a role offering considerably greater ownership, visibility and influence.

For an existing Director, it offers a strong platform from which to originate work, lead complex mandates and further develop a profile within the UK restructuring market.

All enquiries will be handled in the strictest confidence.