business restructuring senior manager

Ideas People Trust

We are BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world.

We are seeking a Senior Manager to join our Business Restructuring team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic team that delivers a wide variety of insolvency and advisory assignments.

The successful candidate will proactively manage a portfolio of projects of varying size and complexity, taking ownership of engagements with limited input from senior colleagues while also providing leadership, coaching, and development support to junior team members.

Reporting directly to Directors and Partners, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality client service, developing technical expertise, and contributing to business development initiatives that support the continued growth of the practice.

About the Team

The Business Restructuring team advises businesses, lenders, investors, management teams, and other stakeholders on a broad range of restructuring and insolvency matters.

Team members are exposed to a diverse mix of assignments across both formal insolvency appointments and advisory engagements, providing continuous opportunities to tackle unique and complex challenges.

The role requires a strong understanding of corporate insolvency procedures from appointment through to closure, with particular emphasis on:

• Administrations, including pre-pack transactions
• Creditors' Voluntary Liquidations (CVLs)
• Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs)
• Business and contingency planning
• Options reviews
• Financial modelling and forecasting

The successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of compliance and risk management requirements, alongside the ability to produce high-quality reports suitable for Partner review.

Experience using IPS and advanced Microsoft Excel skills are highly desirable.

You will be responsible for managing insolvency cases proactively, maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, and ensuring assignments are delivered efficiently and to the highest professional standards.

You'll be someone with

• ACA (ICAEW) or ACCA qualified.
• Significant experience within a corporate insolvency and restructuring environment.
• Strong understanding of Administrations, CVLs, and CVAs.
• Up-to-date knowledge of insolvency regulations and statutory requirements.
• Excellent analytical, numerical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong report writing and communication skills.
• Experience managing engagements and leading project teams.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong proficiency in Word and Power Point.
• Excellent organisational and time management abilities.

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business.

We're committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We're in it together

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From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.

At BDO, you'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices.

BDO's people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we'll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.

With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you'll never stop learning at BDO.

We're looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in you.

Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We've got a clear purpose, and we're confident in our future, because we're adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise.

We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.