Assistant Manager - #1736306

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing dynamic organisation. We are looking for an Assistant Manager to join our established team in the Birmingham office. The role will predominately involve a mixture of Liquidations and Administrations.

Leonard Curtis is a market leading professional services provider operating across the UK and Channel Islands. Since our formation we’ve supported business owners and advisors by listening and offering practical solutions and tailored advice. Our expert team of specialists deliver positive strategic advice across restructuring and insolvency, funding and law across 29 offices and we remain the largest independent restructuring firm in the UK.

We have built an environment that empowers you to express yourself – to have confidence in who you are and what you’re capable of and develop the career you want.

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

What we will give you:

• 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
• 2 giving back days per year

Learning and Development

Leonard Curtis has a wealth of resources available to help you develop your career from the moment you join. Activities range from on-line learning modules to external training.

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity is a core business imperative of the group. We are an equal opportunities employer which promotes inclusiveness and always employ the best professional for the job. Having a diverse workforce allows the group to draw upon a range of different ideas and experiences which supports our business’s growth and creates an environment where everyone has an equal opportunity for success.