Director

Company Description

Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, and clear-cut analysis. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services enabling clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.  We have over 100 locations worldwide. We are highly committed to all members of our community, both employees and clients. Our organization focuses on promoting a sense of community and inspiring our people to achieve results that exceed goals.

Practice Description:

Phoenix Management, a part of J.S. Held’s Global Turnaround and Restructuring Practice provides companies and their investors, legal counsel, financial institutions, with the information required to make well-informed business decisions. With experts located across the globe, we support clients in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.

Within Phoenix Management, we are leaders in the boardroom, C-suite, and on the shop floor.  Together, we are “in the room” to regularly interact with our clients at all levels to assess and address the real challenges and to develop solutions that solve complex problems facing our clients.  We identify areas of opportunity across the operations landscape, develop improvement strategies, and convert that strategy into action to optimize performance.

Job Description

Our Turnaround and Restructuring Practice has openings available at the Director level. The candidate will join an experienced and closely-knit team of turnaround & restructuring professionals, with deep experience in leading, planning and solving the most complex client situations.  The ideal Director candidate will possess 10-15 years of post-graduate experience in turnaround and restructuring, interim management and investor services roles. 

Job Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated track record with significant turnaround and/or workout restructuring experience, including interim/crisis management, complex cash flow projections, and operational restructuring. Success in this position will be measured by both successfully executing and sourcing new deal flow.

Responsibilities include:

• Financial modeling oversight, review/analysis of large amounts of financial data, and projections.
• Assessing business plans, conducting due diligence, and developing and implementing various business strategies for turnaround and profitability improvement.
• Mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, sales, and business wind down.
• Develop and expanding abilities to exploit our existing referral network, superimposing  where applicable the successful candidate’s referral network upon the firm’s existing platform.
• Leading presentations to referral sources, potential clients, and existing clients.

This position requires travel to clients, at times extensive.

We are looking for candidates possessing:

• Strategic Thinking:  Keen intellectual curiosity and the ability to align the broader objectives with the operational challenges and needs for change to meet long-term business goals.
• Attention to Detail:  Meticulous approach to analyzing data, identifying solutions, and implementing changes.
• Leaders in Change:  Ability to inspire and guide teams through change.
• Adaptability:  Capacity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, often chaotic environment.

Qualifications

• Ideally, 10-15 years of broad-based experience in all aspects of turnaround, restructuring and distressed situations in professional service or consulting firms, financial institutions or equity firms representing middle market companies. 
• Must have a thorough understanding of financial modeling and valuation analysis, data management, capital advisory services and the M&A process, deal structuring and negotiation.
• Management of and participation in the financial and operational reviews of a wide variety of business clients.
• Ability to lead significant projects with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated capabilities for turnaround, interim management (CEO/CFO/CRO) in larger tiered client environments, investor services clients including M&A diligence, integration and post transaction support role(s) assignments.
• Ability to develop and implement strategies designed to restore our client’s performance.
• Prior participation in Quality of Earnings assignments relating to transaction advisory services a plus.
• Prior experience with Chapter 11 bankruptcies, sales through Section 363 auctions, and/or DIP financing is strongly desired.
• Understanding of the asset-based lending environment and borrowing base certificates.
• Lead and participate in a variety of marketing and business development activities to further mature the current Strategic Advisory presence in the marketplace as appropriate.
• Undergraduate degree in finance or related field.  MBA or other advanced degree is strongly preferred.
• CTP, CFE or CIRA a plus.

Additional Information

Physical and Mental Job Qualifications

• Must be able to sit for long period of time
• Must be comfortable to work in a remote and/or hybrid environment
• Must be flexible to work outside of the 8:30am – 5:30pm business hours if needed
• Must be flexible to travel 

Some of the Benefits We Have Include

J.S. Held understands all our employees are people and sometimes life needs flexibility. We work to always provide an environment that best supports and suits our team’s needs.

• Generous FTO Policy
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401k Match
• Commuter Benefit

A reasonable estimate of the salary range for this role is $185k - $210k. Any offered salary range is based on a wide array of factors including but not limited to skillset, experience, training, location, scope of role, management responsibility, etc.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Please explore what we’re all about at www.jsheld.com.

EEO and Job Accommodations

We embrace diversity and our commitment to building a team and environment that fosters professional and personal enrichment is unwavering. We are greater when we are equal!

J.S. Held is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request for a reasonable accommodation, please email [email protected] and include “Applicant Accommodation” within the subject line with your request and contact information.

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