Assistant Manager

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