Restructuring - Senior Manager

Job description / Role

Our Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team works with clients to manage their capital agenda to drive competitive advantage and increased returns. As part of a global team of 10,000 professionals in 100 countries you will advise clients on preserving, optimizing, raising or investing capital. Major groups (or, as we call them, sub-service lines and competencies) within TAS include Mergers and Acquisition Services, Project Finance & Infrastructure, Restructuring Services, Operational Transaction Services, Transaction Support, Corporate Finance Strategy, Transaction Tax, and Valuation, Business Modeling and Economic Advisory.

Our global network of Restructuring Services professionals helps clients develop financial and operational strategies to improve liquidity, credit availability and shareholder return. Join this team and you will help clients evaluate capital options, capture greater transaction value and achieve strategic objectives – whether they are buying or selling a distressed asset, restructuring a business or dealing with underperformance, or looking to improve cash management.

The role:
• Consult with and leverage the international network
• Review and agree immediate actions required with the client/stakeholders
• Gain consensus from clients and advisors on the restructuring approach and implementation
• Bring a depth of expertise to the project including the ability to facilitate a decision on the way forward
• Provide suggestions to solve complex problems
• Illustrate to potential investors the benefits of the plan to be implemented
• Comment and provide input to key legal documents to support the restructuring concept
• Recognize and deal with the complex implications of the restructuring (tax, cross boarder issues) and use the EY and external network to address them
• Be a market maker and maximise opportunities to drive firm-wide solutions
• Maintain meaningful and enduring relationships across a broad network
• Establish a clear personal brand in the market and EY
• Manage risk of delivery on restructuring engagements
• Manage all financial aspects of engagements
• Lead and empower high- performing teams delivering exceptional client service
• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff and Managers
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff and Managers
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Restructuring professional
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and approximately 8 years of related work experience
• Professional qualification (CPA/ ACCA/ CA or equivalent, MBA, CFA, etc.)
• Skilled in financial analysis of a distressed business and reporting findings to stakeholders
• Experienced in designing and helping to implement restructuring solutions
• IFRS, financial modeling and valuation expertise
• Strong skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal abilities
• Strong work initiative and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas
• Ability to work well within a team
• Willingness to travel abroad mainly within MENA
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills to get buy-in to a restructuring plan
• Effective written and verbal communication (additional Arabic language skills are highly desirable)

About the Company

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The MENA practice of EY has been operating in the region since 1923. For over 95 years, we have grown to over 7,500 people united across 21 offices and 16 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. As an organization, we continue to develop outstanding leaders who deliver exceptional services to our clients and who contribute to our communities. We are proud of our accomplishments over the years, reaffirming our position as the largest and most established professional services organization in the region