Job Description

The Role

The Restructuring and Insolvency Director is responsible for leading complex restructuring and insolvency engagements, managing client relationships, and ensuring compliance with relevant legal and technical frameworks. The role requires strategic thinking, strong leadership, and the ability to deliver high-quality work under pressure.

Core Skills

Client Focus: o Take the lead on managing and building client relationships with Azets clients with responsibility for developing relationships on key clients. o Identify and deliver service improvements. o Demonstrate a deep understanding of client underlying future needs. o Understand current & future forces that will shape and influence clients' needs. o Use a variety of influence approaches for strategic impact. o Make decisions based on maintaining long-term relationships. o Deliver excellent client satisfaction as measured by relevant KPIs. o Manage client complaints in accordance with Azets processes. o Take the lead on cross-service line delivery on own client base. Technical Excellence: o Recognised as a technical expert. o Provide oversight and take responsibility for ensuring that team members possess the necessary skills, knowledge, and behaviours required to deliver accurate, high-quality work for our clients. o Assess the team's ability to deal with future technical or regulatory developments and take steps to address any skill gaps including managing talent/resource and software planning. o Have a broad knowledge of the more technical aspects of other service lines - be able to spot and talk at a high level about matters outside of own service line. o Think beyond own area to develop capability. o Ensure that quality is beyond a minimum level, with adherence to key processes and ensuring appropriate training is undertaken. Commitment: o Proactive leadership of tasks to achieve business plan. o Create and maintain a positive environment. o Able to look holistically at the department to promote wellbeing and a collaborative environment. o Able to pick up on the 'mood' of the business and take steps to raise team morale as appropriate. o Lead by example and consistently set high standards for professionalism and ethical behaviour. o Champion the Azets brand, building on our portfolio of services, values, reputation, and market profile. o Support the continued development of a consistent and unified Azets brand, strategy, and values and challenge colleagues and clients who are not demonstrating these behaviours. Attention to Detail: o Encourage team to raise standards and eliminate errors. o Track and act on quality issues. o Be transparent and share information with colleagues which could benefit the business, working with the partners in the team. o Be aware of the skills and abilities of those around them, communicating tasks clearly with deadlines and supporting through to completion. o Communicate to the team the bigger picture and objectives of an assignment and strike a balance between seeking further detail and an efficient and commercial output. o Actively take part in and contribute to the development of Azets quality monitoring processes in own part of the business.

Key accountabilities

Decision Making: o Take a dynamic and flexible approach to decision making, using live data to recognise when different approaches are required. o Hold genuinely open discussions, listen to others' views, and show a willingness to compromise. o Present a range of possible decision-making options to stakeholders, highlighting the positive and negative implications of each to reach a decision. o Identify and extract relevant data to support a decision from a large volume and wide range of sources. o Consistently demonstrate awareness and sound judgement on decisions which are able to be made autonomously and escalate those that cannot to more senior stakeholders. o Actively review and adapt past decisions where data suggests original expectations are not being met. Efficiency: o Deal effectively with conflicting objectives, priorities, and agendas. o Draw upon organisational data, understanding of market trends, and latest thinking to identify and take forward ideas for improvements and efficiencies. o Lead the way with digital transformation initiatives through clear understanding of the program and embedding throughout their team. o Critically assess effective use of time, for example ensuring all meetings have a defined purpose and agreed output. Leading People: o Communicate direction clearly and bring colleagues along on the journey balancing business priorities and people priorities with respect. o Trust and appropriately empower team members. o Promote a culture of openness and trust. o Actively look for opportunities to develop others, give responsibility to others and willingly delegate as appropriate. o Comfortable in voicing opinions that may conflict with the status quo. o Build empathy and support to ensure buy-in and ownership of ideas. o Always uphold and demonstrate integrity. Leading Yourself: o Lead a team to achieve resolution of complex challenges. o Stay true to leadership style even when under pressure. o Step outside comfort zone and actively pursue new challenges and opportunities that support the business. o Lead by example by openly pursuing continuous personal and professional development and demonstrate self-awareness. o Demonstrate resilience but recognise own limitations and draw on and accept support from own network when required. Driving Business Growth: o Strategically develop and refine own external network and show evidence of winning work from this network for own team and for Azets more widely. o Critically assess the value of business development efforts and take steps to refine own and team strategies that are underperforming. o Lead and build own client portfolio, demonstrating fee growth from existing services and evidence of successfully introducing new services. o Identify the commercial realities of a client engagement and seek agreement across service lines on approach to fee setting and fee growth. o Articulate the value proposition for the services the team delivers to support fee growth. Living Our Values: o Consistently 'live our values' - demonstrate expected behaviours in line with our company values and Leadership Behaviours.

Technical Skills

Project Management: o Project manage multiple/large/complex client engagements. o Resolve the majority of project issues and refer to second partner review as appropriate. o Engage with and manage stakeholders. o Manage budgets for all projects including monitoring WIP, provisions, and billings. o Oversee team including resourcing, delegation of work, and team motivation. o Make appropriate judgments when making decisions on cases. Risk & Compliance: o Understand key areas of compliance and key commercial risks and mitigants for a project. Ensure findings are documented. o Guide and supervise less experienced colleagues. o Ensure compliance with onboarding including engagement letters, PAC memos, conflict notes on all projects as appropriate. Business Report Writing: o Produce reports that are complex, including recommendations. o Minimal partner input required in reports prior to finalisation including drafting of considered conclusions and recommendations. o Scope and manage the production of high-quality documents/presentations/reports that are capable of meeting stakeholder expectations. o Apply strategic thinking around scoping and refining the presentation of elements in reports mindful of stakeholder objectives and positioning for future negotiation. o Consider technical content of any given report and ensure compliance with regulations and legislation. o Guide, supervise, and support less experienced colleagues. o Review and sign off reports. Business Development: o Continue to build a network of external contacts in relation to case work and through attending and organising appropriate marketing events. o Continue to develop internal network both with national R&I offices and cross stream. o Prepare and deliver pitches and proposals to a high standard. o Proactively seek out work opportunities. o Win and refer new work. Legal and Technical Framework: o Identify training needs across the team and deliver training. o Ensure work completed is compliant with relevant legal and technical frameworks. o Read legal updates and technical bulletins to ensure technical knowledge is up to date. o Have a strong commercial awareness of current developments and "hot topics" in the marketplace and be able to debate these with clients and colleagues. o Brief counsel and challenge advice received. Analytical Skills: o Work with clients to lead the development of solutions to challenges. o Support junior staff in preparing financial statements including receipts and payments accounts, statement of affairs, deficiency accounts, and estimated outcome statements. o Consider knowledge of the client and situation when completing reviews and preparing models. o Review and sense check the accuracy of financial models and challenge their core assumptions. Use experience to guide others to key areas of focus. o Oversee team in conducting investigations to ensure investigations are complete, thorough, and accurate. o Deliver more complex investigations. o Apply strategic thinking around the model outputs and consider their potential impacts on the wider process.

Qualifications

Professional certifications such as Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) or Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) preferred.

Essential Experience

o Extensive experience in restructuring and insolvency, including managing complex engagements. o Proven track record of building and maintaining client relationships. o Strong leadership and team management skills.

Job Reference: AZ04224