About the Role
As a Manager within our Restructuring team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering complex restructuring, turnaround, and insolvency solutions. You’ll be responsible for managing high-impact engagements, shaping strategic outcomes for stressed and distressed businesses, and contributing to the firm’s growth through strong client relationships and market insight. This role demands a seasoned professional with deep technical expertise, commercial acumen, and a proven track record of success in challenging and dynamic environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a diverse portfolio of restructuring and insolvency assignments across a range of sectors
- Deliver strategic advice and practical solutions to underperforming or distressed businesses
- Oversee formal insolvency processes including administrations (both trading and pre-pack), liquidations, and CVAs
- Evidence an ability to lead corporate transactions including negotiation of commercial terms and sale documentation
- Conduct detailed financial analysis, including cash flow forecasting and recovery planning
- Develop and implement strategic recovery plans tailored to client needs
- Advise on financial restructuring, distressed M&A and performance improvement
- Engage with banks, private equity firms, investors, legal advisors and other stakeholders to deliver integrated financial solutions
- Collaborate with legal, finance and operational teams to ensure seamless project delivery
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, lenders and other key stakeholders
- Contribute to business development efforts, including proposal writing and market positioning
- Mentor and develop junior team members, fostering a culture of learning and high performance
- Ensure all work complies with relevant legislation, professional standards and internal policies
- Take a lead role in high-impact, complex restructuring engagements, often involving cross-functional teams and senior-level stakeholders
Requirements
- Degree educated and CII / CPI required
- ACA / ACCA or equivalent qualification is advantageous but not required
- JIEB obtained or looking to complete the qualification desirable
- Deep expertise in restructuring, turnaround, and insolvency developed within a professional services or advisory environment
- Significant experience in corporate restructuring preferred
- Strong technical knowledge of UK insolvency legislation and restructuring frameworks
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Commercially astute with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and insolvency case management systems (e.g., IPS)
- Capable of managing multiple priorities and leading teams across concurrent projects
- Proven experience of training junior members of staff and a willingness to do so
Skills
- Restructuring
- Turnaround
- Insolvency
- Corporate Finance
- Debt Advisory
- Forensic Services
- Financial Advisory
- Restructuring Advisory
- Real Estate Advisory
- Financial analysis
- Cash flow forecasting
- Recovery planning
- Strategic recovery plans
- Financial restructuring
- Distressed M&A
- Performance improvement
- Stakeholder management
- Microsoft Office
- IPS
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Manager
- Seasoned professional
- Significant experience
Education Level
- Degree educated
- CII / CPI required
- ACA / ACCA or equivalent qualification advantageous
- JIEB obtained or looking to complete the qualification desirable
About the Company
- FRP is a leading national business advisory firm based in the UK.
- With over 900 team members, including more than 100 partners, we specialise in Corporate Finance, Debt Advisory, Forensic Services, Financial Advisory, Restructuring Advisory and Real Estate Advisory.
- Operating from 35 offices across the UK, Isle of Man and Cyprus, we are dedicated to helping clients navigate complex and difficult situations to create, preserve, and recover value.
- Our approach is known for being honest, clear, and considered.
- We provide strategic solutions that cater to a broad range of businesses, from multinational organisations to small enterprises.
- Our commitment is to deliver expert advice and support, ensuring our clients can make informed decisions and achieve their goals.
- At FRP Advisory Group, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations.
- Our sustainability depends on building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders - including our employees, clients, and local communities - while also reducing our impact on the natural environment.
- We are always striving to improve in all areas - whether it’s our people, our clients, our planet or our governance.
- Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape.
- Our learning and development programmes enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers.
- We aim to empower our team members to each achieve their potential.
- We are committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives.
- We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success.
- We are emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture for our people.
- We maintain an Equal Opportunities Policy, ensuring that recruitment and employment decisions are based solely on the skills and experience required for our professional services - regardless of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
- We believe every individual should have the opportunity to thrive.
