Assistant Manager, Restructuring (Birmingham, Nottingham or Bristol)

Interpath is an international and fast-growing advisory business with deep expertise in a broad range of specialisms spanning Deals, Advisory and Restructuring capabilities.

We deliver tangible results for global businesses, their investors, and stakeholders when complex problems arise, and critical decisions need to be made. Interpath is agile, independent, and conflict-free, and our passion for doing what’s right, every time, sets us apart.

Our diverse teams provide specialist technical knowledge combined with deep sector experience across our service line specialisms. Since our foundation in 2021, Interpath has grown rapidly, and we now have a presence across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, BVI, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Barbados, and Hong Kong. By 2030 we aim to be one of the world’s leading advisory firms with a truly global footprint.

The Restructuring team is looking for twoAssistant Managersto join our Midlands & South practice (Birmingham, Nottingham & Bristol).

We are looking for individuals to work alongside colleagues nationally – we have over 500 staff in 11 offices around the UK – assisting in providing insolvency and restructuring advice to a range of businesses from large, complex situations often involving multi-jurisdictional advice, to working with small to medium size companies including owner-managed businesses.

We provide a number of service lines, including:

• Restructuring advice to companies who are under performing or experiencing liquidity problems, and/or to their key stakeholders;
• Accelerated M&A advice through the acquisition or sale of companies with a need for turnaround;
• Turnaround support (including cost reduction and working capital improvement);
• Options reviews to help businesses and/or their stakeholders take the correct action;
• Cash forecasting & management;
• Advice to trustees of defined benefit pension schemes, where a funding deficit requires to be met by the sponsoring employer; and
• All forms of corporate insolvency appointments to entities from sole traders to partnerships, limited companies and PLCs.
• There will also be the opportunity to work with our wider UK team on insolvency assignments, often on some of the highest profile businesses in the UK.

Key Accountabilities:

As highlighted above, the role will involve working across a range of assignment types, and applicants should be ready to work in dynamic, flexible and fast-moving environments.

To be an effective Assistant Manager within Restructuring you will need to:

• Work in engagement teams of typically 3 to 6 people, supporting senior team members on a range of service lines.
• Build strong, trusted adviser relationships with senior management and mid-level executives and other key stakeholders in engagements (including lawyers and contacts at banks and other lenders).
• Understand objectives of a workstream and integrate individual contributions, whilst being aware of the broader nature of the project. This includes delivering tasks efficiently and effectively, demonstrating responsibility and self-direction by taking initiative, seeking direction and accepting challenging requests to assist with delivering excellent results for clients.
• Follow internal processes to ensure risks are managed, outputs are to a high standard and budgets are met.
• On relevant assignments, oversee work as the main point of contact with the client, reporting back to engagement leaders and other senior staff.
• Undertake detailed analysis to present robust advice to client teams.
• Appraise challenging & fast developing situations and look to develop innovative solutions and assess options for businesses and their stakeholders, which in certain instances may involve consideration of formal insolvency processes.
• Help organise and attend BD events and meetings, building and expanding own network amongst internal and external peers.
• Play an active role within the team, proactively contributing to team success and seek opportunities to participate in local team initiatives which promote Interpath values.
• Contribute to the development of junior staff on assignments by providing feedback and sharing knowledge with colleagues.

• ACA / ACCA (or equivalent) qualified or background in the Restructuring profession.
• Desire to build wide insolvency skillsets and develop knowledge of all Restructuring offerings.
• Ability to communicate well across a range of operational and financial staff at all levels. This is also often in challenging circumstances given the financial positions of the organisations we typically work with.
• Good organisational and time management skills with the ability to manage your own work streams.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Ability to work innovatively with a track record of being able to ‘self-start’ whilst also capable of effective delegation.
• Willingness to embrace work across all sectors and potentially undertake some travel.
• A positive team influence and achievements beyond the realms of project work including development and mentoring of junior team members.
• Drive and enthusiasm.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (including Outlook, Excel, Word and Powerpoint).

Benefits

At Interpath, our people lie at the heart of our business. That\’s why we provide employees with a competitive and comprehensive reward package including compelling salaries and a range of core and optional benefits. Read more about our benefits; Company Benefits – Interpath

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that Interpath do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Interpath will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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