What are the responsibilities and job description for the Managing Director, Turnaround & Restructuring position at Ankura?
Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.
Practice Overview
Ankura’s professionals have diverse backgrounds and varied experience including banking, consulting, restructuring, accounting firms and public/private industries. Our professionals are trusted advisors who work collaboratively and in a very measured and expedient way to maximize value for our clients. We are experts known for leading challenging processes and bringing together disparate stakeholder groups.
Role Overview
The Turnaround & Restructuring (T&R) Managing Director role is an experienced senior level position that leads and manages client engagement team(s) through challenging in-and-out of court turnaround and restructuring situations.
Responsibilities
Practice Overview
Ankura’s professionals have diverse backgrounds and varied experience including banking, consulting, restructuring, accounting firms and public/private industries. Our professionals are trusted advisors who work collaboratively and in a very measured and expedient way to maximize value for our clients. We are experts known for leading challenging processes and bringing together disparate stakeholder groups.
Role Overview
The Turnaround & Restructuring (T&R) Managing Director role is an experienced senior level position that leads and manages client engagement team(s) through challenging in-and-out of court turnaround and restructuring situations.
Responsibilities
- Leads the final delivery of analyses developed on engagement(s)
- Leads and provides guidance on complex analyses and restructuring alternatives pertinent to the situation at hand
- Has a view on various restructuring concepts informed by prior experience and expertise
- Understands complex issues with credit agreements and can structure provision and terms to best protect the client
- Negotiate waivers, forbearances, amendments and terms to credit agreements
- Effectively manages entire project work plan for engagement(s)
- Manages the development and presentation of final client deliverables
- Determines effective approach / content level based on previous experiences in similar situations
- Leads presentations and large meetings with senior clients, other professionals and parties in interest
- Maintains day to day relationships between Ankura team and senior client executives
- Oversees the quality of engagement(s) and the development of staff
- Minimum 10 years of relevant restructuring / distressed experience in a professional service or consulting firm environment
- Prior hands-on experience building / developing / overseeing integrated 3-statement financial and 13-week cash flow models
- An undergraduate degree from a top academic institution
- Advanced degree(s) and applicable professional certification(s) are preferred (CFA, CIRA, CPA)
- High energy style, flexible and adaptive, with the ability to work well in a very fast paced environment
- Ability to adapt to complex client environments and situations
- Proven track record of effectively planning for and proactively mitigates risks on projects and work streams
- Expertise defining, influencing and driving change at executive levels and across the broader community of stakeholders
- Exceptional negotiation skills with complex/sophisticated situations involving senior level stakeholders
- Able to develop credible recommendations under shortened time constraints and imperfect information
- Quickly recognizes critical areas requiring analysis and review while understanding the big picture
- Experience synthesizing complex unstructured information rapidly and applies good business judgment driving quickly to deep insights into possible impacts and solutions
- Expert written communication skills, self-directed with preparation of client ready document and presentation development
- Articulate, persuasive, communicator who is adept at handling executive and difficult audiences well including ability to adapt style to audience
- Ability and willingness to undertake extensive travel is required
- Willingness to work at times, long hours during the week and on weekends due to client demands may be necessary