Restructuring (Insolvency) Manager

In a nutshell

Join our expanding Business Restructuring team, renowned for their outstanding reputation in delivering sound advice with a compassionate touch. We are seeking a Insolvency Manager or Assistant Manager to make a significant impact within our leading firm. Embrace a fantastic work-life balance, thrive in a supportive team environment, and engage with a diverse array of client work. Take advantage of our dedicated leadership programs, designed to foster your professional growth. We also support our team with professional training and qualifications to ensure you have the tools and knowledge needed to excel.  

What you'll be doing day to day

• Proactively manage your own portfolio of varied cases, with differing levels of complexity, taking full responsibility for compliance, budgeting, and billing.
• Partner with companies, partnerships, and individuals, offering practical and realistic advice to ensure directors and individuals fully understand the options available to them, and their statutory responsibilities and risks, when faced with insolvency.
• Support and delegate work to a team of Assistants. This will include assisting and developing them on case strategy and efficient case management.
• Advise clients faced with debt, cashflow problems, creditor pressure, county court judgements, bailiffs, statutory demands, winding up petitions and potential insolvency. You will also support the sale of business and other assets, dealing with contentious and ordinary claims, and investigating and seeking money for creditors where appropriate.
• Contributing to the team’s development through extensive networking and technical skills. 

About you

• ACCA/ACA (or equivalent) qualified/part-qualified is desirable but not essential.
• CPI and/or JIEB qualified or an interest in completing these qualifications in the future.
• Previous experience in a similar role and be able to perform a lead role in both advisory and insolvency assignments.  
• Strong technical, analytical, and report writing abilities as well as strong interpersonal skills.  
• Experience in building and managing stakeholder relationships with both internal colleagues and external clients.
• Proven experience of either preparation of financial information or the ability to analyse the information.
• Strong organisational and time management skills and able to demonstrate a strong commercial outlook.
• Commitment to high quality delivery within agreed timeframes. 

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisors in South West England, joining PKF Francis Clark brings opportunities to develop your career in a direction that interests you.

Having celebrated our centenary in 2019, we’re a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro.

Our culture is flexible and supportive, enabling you to be the best you can be. We work hard to ensure you can be yourself, develop and be part of a forward-thinking team that makes brilliant things happen. But don’t just take our word for it.

PKF Francis Clark is certified as a Great Place to Work. In 2024, we climbed nine places to 24 out of 105 large organisations on the list of the UK’s Best Workplaces.

We’re also ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women (33 out of 90 large organisations), Best Workplaces for Development (30 out of 100) and Best Workplace for Wellbeing (44 out of 100).

Workplace culture experts Great Place to Work also highlighted PKF Francis Clark as a top achiever among the UK’s Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services.

And in recognition of our outstanding training programmes for graduates, school leavers and career changers, we’ve been ranked among England’s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for two years running.

Whilst we’re proudly independent, PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of a global community of business advisors in 150 countries provides opportunities to expand your horizons by connecting with PKF colleagues around the world.

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 
•    Electric vehicle lease scheme* 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.