Executive, Turnaround & Restructuring, Strategy & Transactions, Belfast

Executive (Senior Associate), Turnaround & Restructuring, Strategy & Transactions, Belfast 

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. We are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

At a time when the global business environment holds increasingly complex strategic challenges, we know that how organisations manage their capital agenda today will define their competitive position tomorrow.

As a key member of the Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy (TRS) practice In Ireland, you will join a growing team of 60 plus professionals across our Belfast, Dublin and Cork offices supporting clients to make better and more informed decisions.

The opportunity
Our global network of Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy professionals helps clients develop financial and operational strategies to improve liquidity, credit availability and shareholder return. Our team is fully integrated both within our wider Strategy and Transactions practice, and our firm as a whole, allowing our clients to reap the benefits of this broad range of knowledge, skills and experience. We develop long-term relationships with our clients by ensuring that our teams work closely with them to understand their short and long-term goals and working with them at every stage to identify problems, recommend, and implement solutions that deliver measurable results.

Your key responsibilities
As an Executive, 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, dealing with underperformance, or looking to improve cash management. You will support the preparation of comprehensive financial reviews of the client’s operations, attend legal proceedings, engage in judicial management, support liquidation processes, and advise clients on corporate risk management issues.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Competent in financial analysis and modelling to support decision making
• Solid commercial acumen; to use in application and continue to develop a deeper understanding
• Competent in translation of analysis for client presentation
• Attention to detail and capable of identifying problems and making recommendations
• Maintain and confidential and sensitive approach 
• Desire to learn and grow both in technical knowledge and professional skill to support career progression
• Confident in building strong working relationships with clients and peer group to build trust and capability to influence, advise and support key decision makers. 

Key Relationships 
Turnaround and Restructuring Partner and Peer Group together with colleagues from other service lines.  You will also routinely deal with legal professionals and a wide variety of clients from across the financial sector

To qualify for the role you must have

• Qualified or Part-qualified with ACA, ACCA.  Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency (CPI) qualification (or equivalent) an advantage but not essential 
• Strong commercial experience and/or relevant restructuring experience
• Excellent communicator, both oral and written
• Strong IT skills, to an advanced level in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Project management skills
• Effective time management
• Ability to keep calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
• Team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels but also able to work effectively on your own using your own initiative and judgement as required

What we offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. 

Apply now.

Please note;
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