Origination Lead, Restructuring

Kroll, LLC.; India; Remote; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroll is seeking a senior Restructuring Origination and Intelligence Lead in India to identify stressed businesses and develop informed views on opportunities. You will turn financial data, sector insights and market research into actionable intelligence for senior colleagues leading external discussions.

The role focuses on internal prioritisation, developing an opportunity pipeline, and coordinating across offices to strengthen restructuring proposals.

Qualifications

• Approximately 7+ years of relevant experience in restructuring or related fields.
• Strong ability to interpret financial statements and assess liquidity.
• Understanding of debt structures, creditor dynamics and insolvency scenarios.
• Ability to connect macro trends with company-level risks and opportunities.
• Proven research and quantitative skills to turn signals into insights.
• Experience designing research processes and managing datasets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel and financial information platforms knowledge; CFA desirable.

Responsibilities

• Identify and monitor stressed or distressed companies using financial data and market signals.
• Produce deep-dive analyses of priority situations including liquidity and debt structure.
• Map stakeholders (lenders, creditors, sponsors, boards) and assess positions.
• Develop perspectives on sectors and macro trends affecting restructuring opportunities.
• Build and maintain a structured target database and internal opportunity pipeline.
• Establish consistent research methods, templates and quality standards across jurisdictions.
• Prepare concise briefings, presentations and analyses for senior professionals.
• Support proposals and internal discussions with company and industry research.
• Coordinate research requests across offices and service lines and teams.
• Lead and develop analysts, strengthening their financial analysis and writing.

Skills

Restructuring

Credit analysis

Financial modeling

Stakeholder management

Market research

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Education

Finance/economics/business degree

Tools

Capital IQ

Bloomberg

LSEG Workspace/Eikon

Mergermarket

Job description

In a world of disruption and increasingly complex business challenges, our professionals bring truth into focus with the Kroll Lens. Our sharp analytical skills, paired with the latest technology, allow us to give clients clarity—not just answers—in all areas of business.

We embrace diverse backgrounds and global perspectives, and we cultivate diversity by respecting, including and valuing one another. As part of One team, One Kroll, you’ll contribute to a supportive and collaborative environment that empowers you to excel.

Kroll’s Restructuring practice aims to provide effective solutions to its clients. Our clients include major banks, asset-based lenders, private equity houses, accountants, solicitors, financial sponsors, lenders, creditors, corporates and individuals. We are tasked with assuming direct responsibility for organisations in distressed situations across virtually every industry and situation.

At Kroll, your work will help deliver clarity to our clients’ most complex governance, risk, and transparency challenges.

The role:

We are seeking a Restructuring Origination and Intelligence Lead to identify stressed and distressed businesses, develop informed views on potential opportunities, and help our restructuring team prioritise where to focus. This is an internally focused role. You will turn financial, sector and market research into actionable insights for senior colleagues who lead external relationships and mandate discussions.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and monitor companies showing signs of financial or operational stress, using financial statements, credit data, market developments and other relevant sources.
• Produce deep-dive analyses of priority situations, including business performance, liquidity, debt structure and potential restructuring needs.
• Identify and map the key stakeholders in each priority situation, including lenders, creditors, shareholders, sponsors, boards, management teams and relevant advisers. Assess their positions and likely interests to inform the team’s approach.
• Develop perspectives on sectors and macroeconomic trends that may create restructuring opportunities.
• Build and maintain a structured target database and internal opportunity pipeline, with regular screening, updates and prioritisation.
• Establish consistent research methods, screening criteria, templates and quality standards that can be adapted across jurisdictions.
• Prepare concise briefings, presentations and analysis for senior restructuring professionals, sector teams and business development colleagues.
• Support proposals and internal opportunity discussions with company and industry research.
• Coordinate research requests across offices and service lines, drawing on relevant local and specialist expertise.
• Lead and develop analysts, reviewing their work and helping them strengthen their financial analysis and written communication.

Requirements:

• Approximately 7 or more years of relevant experience in restructuring, credit analysis, distressed investing, banking, private equity, transaction advisory or a related field.
• Strong financial and accounting skills, including the ability to interpret financial statements, assess liquidity and identify indicators of distress.
• Sound understanding of debt structures, creditor dynamics, insolvency and restructuring situations.
• Ability to connect macroeconomic and sector developments with risks and opportunities at company level.
• Proven research and quantitative skills, with the judgement to identify meaningful signals and turn them into actionable insights.
• Experience designing research processes, managing datasets or monitoring an opportunity pipeline.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings clearly to senior internal stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with relevant financial information platforms, such as Capital IQ, Bloomberg, LSEG Workspace/Eikon or Mergermarket.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and collaborate effectively across teams and geographies.
• A degree in finance, accounting, economics, business or a related field. A relevant professional qualification, such as the CFA, is desirable.

Kroll is committed to equal opportunity and diversity, and recruits people based on merit.