Manager - Restructuring Advisory

Role overview

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.

Key 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
• 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

Our Values

• Straightforward : We provide clear, no-nonsense advice
• Confident : Our guidance is backed by expertise and evidence
• Pragmatic : We focus on practical solutions and tangible outcomes
• Real : We are professional yet approachable, understanding the challenges our clients face

Our Commitment to You and the Environment

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.

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.

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.