Strategic Turnaround & Restructuring Assistant Manager

Grant Thornton UK; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton UK is seeking an Assistant Manager in Turnaround and Restructuring to help advise on complex restructurings and creditor matters. You will work within a national team, collaborating on assignments across the region, while developing your technical skills and leadership experience.

You will build networks, support negotiations, and contribute to client presentations, with opportunities to participate in events and training to advance your career in advisory services.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant ACA/ACCA required.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to see beyond the numbers.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Begin to understand and demonstrate the market and current developments (both work givers and competitors).
• Provide recommendations to ongoing negotiations and sales pitches including origination activities.
• Contribute to internal and external presentations for both the department and the firm.
• Build and nurture your own network both internally and external to the firm.
• Take part at internal and external events, on training, marketing and assignment related subjects to promote restructuring services.
• Be able to apply technical knowledge appropriately in the context of individual clients and can display both skill and speed in resolving client problems.
• Make quick, clear and unequivocal recommendations to managers about client issues and can generate a range of options and choices and narrow these down appropriately.
• Begin to understand and demonstrate the balance between the need for information and data and the requirement, from a client's perspective, for quick decisions and recommendations.
• Manage junior staff working on assignments, including coaching, identifying and dealing with performance issues in a timely manner, ensuring that regular feedback is given, ensuring as far as possible that team members receive appropriate opportunities to develop.

Skills

Commercial acumen

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Education

ACA/ACCA

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Grant Thornton UK is seeking an Assistant Manager in Turnaround and Restructuring to help advise on complex restructurings and creditor matters. You will work within a national team, collaborating on assignments across the region, while developing your technical skills and leadership experience.

You will build networks, support negotiations, and contribute to client presentations, with opportunities to participate in events and training to advance your career in advisory services.