Restructuring Assistant Manager

More than you expected

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Job Description:

New ground won’t break itself 

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals.  

Grant Thornton’s well-established UK Restructuring, Pensions and Debt Advisory team (RPDA) works on a range of complex advisory assignments and insolvency appointments. RPDA has advised on some of the most high-profile restructuring (including Restructuring Plans) and insolvency appointments in the UK and overseas including Greensill, Buckingham Group, BrightHouse, Royale Resorts and Wonga. The team has also confidentially advised several global financial institutions on restructuring and dispute related assignments. It has worked across several specialisms including real estate, construction, healthcare, energy and natural resources, industrials, manufacturing and automotive, consumer finance and regulated industries. The working environment within the transaction environment can be dynamic, with peak periods as transactions progress, offering a varied and dynamic experience. It is important to be prepared for this variability. Being part of a national team based in London this presents an opportunity to work across the UK, providing potential for further career development and progression in optional insolvency qualifications including the CPI and JIEB. 

We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.  

A look into the role: 

As an Assistant Manager in the team you will: 

• Begins to understand and demonstrate the market and current developments (both work givers and competitors). 
• Provides recommendations to ongoing negotiations and sales pitches including origination activities. 
• Contributes to internal and external presentations for both the department and the firm. 
• Builds and nurtures own network both internally and external to the firm. 
• Takes part at internal and external events, on training, marketing and assignment related subjects to promote recovery services. 
• Able to apply technical knowledge appropriately in the context of individual clients and can display both skill and speed in resolving client problems. 
• Makes quick, clear and unequivocal recommendations to managers about client issues and can generate a range of options and choices and narrow these down appropriately. 
• Begins 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. 
• Manages those who have people management responsibility and those who are 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. 

Knowing you’re right for us   

Joining us as an Assistant Manager, the minimum criteria you’ll need is to have: 

• You must be a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA)  

• Good level of proficiency in using Ms Excel and PowerPoint 

Knowing we’re right for you  

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone.  Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.  

Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.   

Beyond the job    

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.  

The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society. It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind. 

We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be.