Senior Executive (Manager), EY Parthenon, Strategy & Execution, Financial Restructuring, London

EY; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Greater London seeks a Senior Executive in Financial Restructuring. You will manage restructuring engagements while working closely with clients and internal teams. The ideal candidate has a professional accountancy qualification and experience in a restructuring environment, demonstrating strong stakeholder management and project execution skills. The position offers opportunities for personal growth and a welcoming team culture, with a balance of hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Continuous learning opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Professional accountancy qualification is essential.
• Previous experience in a Restructuring environment is required.
• Building strong internal relationships is key.

Responsibilities

• Manage restructuring engagements and work closely with clients.
• Establish and nurture relationships with various stakeholders.
• Provide coaching and counsel to team members.

Skills

Financial analysis

Scenario modelling

Commercial acumen

Project management

Stakeholder management

Coaching and mentoring

Education

Professional accountancy qualification

Job description

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Financial Restructuring, Senior Executive (Manager)

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.

With huge amounts of economic disruption and uncertainty in today's market, companies and other organisations are facing real challenges to thrive or even survive. Having the right strategy in place to restructure or turn around an organisation can help turn adversity into opportunity.

The Opportunity

EY's Financial Restructuring team is one of the leading teams of its kind in the market, working with stressed and challenged businesses with a unique culture and position within the larger EY firm. FR is part of EY's Strategy & Transactions business, working with companies and stakeholders at times of change, and often at an exciting pace. TRS covers a number of different sub business units and geographies in the UK and you may have the opportunity to work across different teams in your career with TRS.

Our clients can be companies, government bodies or financial stakeholders like lenders or shareholders. They might be on the brink of a crisis, or simply looking to build greater resilience into their business.

In Financial Restructuring we work closely with our clients to deliver the financial and organisational solutions that enable them to adapt and succeed or minimise the downside risks that they are facing. The work involves understanding the drivers of value in a business and problem solving to manage the priorities of competing stakeholders. People who flourish in FR want to think broadly about what drives value in a company's performance and the factors that can drive underperformance or failure.

Financial Restructuring is a growing team seeing a significant uptick in its market during 2024 and beyond for financial advisory, so there is real opportunity to develop and grow your career. Whilst we do work at pace at times, the team is a welcoming and inclusive place with a good balance of hybrid working and an enjoyable team environment, where you can bring your whole self to work.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Restructuring Senior Executive in our London team, you'll manage the restructuring engagement by working closely with the Senior Manager / Partner to deliver best execution with our diverse range of clients.

Depending on the size and type of project, you may be part of a large project team or lead a team yourself, working on deliverables, and driving the project to completion with all the support you need from peers and senior team members to help you learn and flourish in these roles.

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, lenders or lawyers - as relationship-building is an important and valued skill in Financial Restructuring.

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.

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.
• Ideally, the right candidate would have experience of working on situations which have involved in-court restructuring solutions such as CVA, Restructuring Plans, Scheme of Arrangement etc, and Administration.
• Desire to support the people development of TRS - contributing to or leading training courses, recruitment, and team / wellbeing activities.
• Strong appreciation of risk management.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Professional accountancy qualification
• Previous experience of working within a Restructuring environment
• Experience working on independent business reviews, cashflow forecasting for corporate or lender clients
• The ability to build strong internal relationships within Restructuring and across other services, and can actively participate in business development
• Skills or desire to be a good manager of people - coaching, providing feedback and performance reviews to junior staff.
• Appreciation of the risks inherent in advising distressed businesses and their stakeholders

Ideally, you'll also have

• Experience working on large complex restructuring cases with multiple lenders or other stakeholders
• People development experience and can effectively supervise, coach and mentor staff
• Own network of contacts with work providers, or will understand how to build one

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 Financial Restructuring .

What we offer

• Continuous learning: You will develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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