Job Details

Assistant Manager

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing dynamic organisation. They are looking for an Assistant Manager to join their well established team in their Birmingham office.

The role will predominately involve a mixture of Liquidations and Administrations.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

  • Involvement in client meetings from initial contact, with some responsibility of driving case to appointment date
  • Dealing with cases from commencement/handover to closure, driving case progression from appointment including statutory reporting to a variety of stakeholders
  • Management of multiple cases
  • Experience and understanding of corporate insolvency procedures, particularly Administrations and CVLs
  • Stakeholder management
  • Achieving statutory and regulatory compliance
  • Responsibility for additional ad hoc tasks as required
  • Having a degree of autonomy in decision making
  • Managing and developing junior employees
  • Developing relationships with other professionals both internally within the group and externally

Skills required:

  • Corporate insolvency experience of multiple processes
  • Good numeracy and analytical skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to identify and deal with high-risk issues
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Ability to manage competing priorities in a varied case portfolio
  • Excellent team player
  • Strong organisational skills
  • Ability to work on your own initiative and be proactive
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • As the role requires analysis and preparation of financial data, an accountancy and/or insolvency qualification is desirable, but is not required.

Company Benefits:

  • 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays
  • Opportunity to study towards fully expensed professional qualifications
  • Contributory pension scheme (3% company contribution)
  • Flexible benefit and well-being schemes
  • Enhanced sick pay scheme
  • Enhanced family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity pay
  • 36.25 hour working week
  • Birthday leave