Senior Director – Turnaround & Restructuring
| Company | Ankura Consulting Group |
|---|---|
| Location | Houston, TX, USA, Nashville, TN, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Dallas, TX, USA, Chicago, IL, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $110000 – $240000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of relevant restructuring / distressed experience in a professional service or consulting firm environment
- An undergraduate degree from a top academic institution
- Advanced degree(s) and applicable professional certification(s) are preferred (CFA, CIRA, CPA)
- Prior hands-on experience building / developing / overseeing integrated 3-statement financial and 13-week cash flow models
- High energy style, flexible and adaptive, with the ability to work well in a very fast paced environment
- Ability to adapt to complex client environments and situations
- Proven track record of effectively planning for and proactively mitigates risks on projects and work streams
- Exceptional negotiation skills with complex/sophisticated situations involving senior level stakeholders
- Able to develop credible recommendations under shortened time constraints and imperfect information
- Quickly recognizes critical areas requiring analysis and review while understanding the big picture
- Experience synthesizing complex unstructured information rapidly and applies good business judgment driving quickly to deep insights into possible impacts and solutions
- Expert written communication skills, self-directed with preparation of client ready document and presentation development
- Articulate, persuasive, communicator who is adept at handling executive and difficult audiences well including ability to adapt style to audience
- Ability and willingness to undertake extensive travel is required
- Willingness to work at times, long hours during the week and on weekends due to client demands may be necessary
Responsibilities
- Leads the review of and provides guidance on complex analyses
- Facilitates team in the development and understanding of analytical tools including and outside of Excel
- Supervises and manages team working directly with Client to obtain relevant data
- Provides direction on disaggregate complex problems and into simpler parts
- Leads in challenging assumptions and hypotheses generated by early career consultants
- Oversees the review of complex accounting and financial concepts to the situation at hand
- Analyzes risks to existing or proposed covenant packages
- Leads and provides guidance on analyses on different credit products
- Delivers guidance and clearly articulates restructuring concepts and applies to the situation at hand
- Responsible for building fully integrated financial and transaction models from start to finish including supervising all parts of the analysis and drawing preliminary conclusions
- Takes ownership and manages key elements of bankruptcy case management
- Effectively plans engagement workstreams and manages multiple sections of work plan
- Prepares and supervises deliverables including identifying and writing issues and situations at hand for review by senior professional
- Determines an effective approach / content level based on audience in most situations
- Builds lasting relations with clients beyond initial engagement
- Coordinates with team on prioritization plans
- Provides leadership to junior professionals and shapes the work of the team
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree(s) and applicable professional certification(s) are preferred (CFA, CIRA, CPA)