Senior Consultant - Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy

About EY-Parthenon

EY-Parthenon is one of the world’s leading strategy consultancies, helping clients navigate complex challenges and unlock long-term value. Our Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy team works with businesses, investors, and stakeholders in critical situations – such as underperformance, liquidity crises, and distressed transactions – providing strategic and operational solutions that deliver measurable impact.
 
The opportunity

As a Senior in Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy, you will play a key role in supporting clients through financial and operational restructuring, turnaround strategies, and crisis management. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, contribute to strategic decision-making, and help organizations stabilize and transform during periods of disruption.
 
Key responsibilities

• Support clients in evaluating capital options, improving liquidity, and achieving strategic objectives in distressed or underperforming situations;
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis, including Independent Business Reviews (IBR), cash flow forecasting, and liquidity assessments;
• Assist in planning and executing restructuring engagements, including stakeholder management and negotiation support;
• Prepare comprehensive reports and presentations with actionable recommendations for clients;
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Transaction Strategy, Debt Advisory, and M&A;
• Contribute to business development activities, including proposals and client meetings;
• Actively participate in practice development initiatives to strengthen EY-Parthenon’s TRS offering.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strategic mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work under tight deadlines;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder engagement;
• Commercial acumen and results-oriented approach;
• Proactive, collaborative, and adaptable in dynamic environments.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related fields;
• 3–6 years of experience in consulting, corporate finance, restructuring, or insolvency;
• Strong knowledge of financial modeling and liquidity analysis;
• Full proficiency in Portuguese and English;
• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally.

What we look For

Highly motivated professionals with a passion for solving complex problems and delivering tangible results. If you thrive in challenging environments and want to make a real impact on businesses during critical moments, this role is for you.
 
What working at EY offers

EY offers a competitive remuneration package commensurate with your work experience. Plus, we offer:
- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around;
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career;
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.
 
EY | Shape the future with confidence.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
 
At EY, we're committed to providing recruitment and career opportunities to all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, social background or disability. We believe that equality and diversity are central to our recruitment process, as they enhance creativity and efficiency, leading to improved performance and productivity. In line with this commitment, EY Portugal recently became a member of the Inclusive Community Forum. This initiative, led by Nova SBE, focuses on the recruitment of individuals with disabilities, advocating for a more inclusive community. Moreover, EY Portugal has also endorsed the Diversity Charter of APPDI (the Portuguese Association for Diversity and Inclusion), pledging to establish and develop internal policies and practices which support diversity. Through these initiatives, EY seeks to actively contribute to the inclusion process, and promote a more inclusive community for people with disabilities, by actively participating in creating solutions. 

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