Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency Director - #1758949

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Who are Azets

Azets are a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, we have over a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of our many offices!

We are a top ten accountancy firm in the UK and are the number one largest SME practice.

The Role

Day to day duties

• Take a dynamic and flexible approach to decision making, using live data to recognise when different approaches are required.
• Present a range of possible decision-making options to stakeholders, highlighting the positive and negative implications of each to reach a decision.
• Identify and extract relevant data to support a decision from a large volume and wide range of sources.
• Consistently demonstrate awareness and sound judgement on decisions which are able to be made autonomously and escalate those that cannot to more senior stakeholders.
• Actively review and adapt past decisions where data suggests original expectations are not being met.
  
  

Efficiency:

• Deal effectively with conflicting objectives, priorities, and agendas.
• Draw upon organisational data, understanding of market trends, and latest thinking to identify and take forward ideas for improvements and efficiencies.
• Lead the way with digital transformation initiatives through clear understanding of the program and embedding throughout their team.
• Critically assess effective use of time, for example ensuring all meetings have a defined purpose and agreed output.
  
  

Leading People:

• Communicate direction clearly and bring colleagues along on the journey balancing business priorities and people priorities with respect.
• Trust and appropriately empower team members.
• Promote a culture of openness and trust.
• Actively look for opportunities to develop others, give responsibility to others and willingly delegate as appropriate.
• Comfortable in voicing opinions that may conflict with the status quo.
• Build empathy and support to ensure buy-in and ownership of ideas.
• Always uphold and demonstrate integrity.
  
  

Leading Yourself:

• Lead a team to achieve resolution of complex challenges.
• Stay true to leadership style even when under pressure.
• Step outside comfort zone and actively pursue new challenges and opportunities that support the business.
• Lead by example by openly pursuing continuous personal and professional development and demonstrate self-awareness.
  
  

Driving Business Growth:

• Strategically develop and refine own external network and show evidence of winning work from this network for own team and for Azets more widely.
• Critically assess the value of business development efforts and take steps to refine own and team strategies that are underperforming.
• Lead and build own client portfolio, demonstrating fee growth from existing services and evidence of successfully introducing new services.
• Identify the commercial realities of a client engagement and seek agreement across service lines on approach to fee setting and fee growth.
• Articulate the value proposition for the services the team delivers to support fee growth.
  
  

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more. You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues - Careers | Rewards And Benefits | Azets UK

Interested in hearing more about Life at Azets

What we are looking for

• ACA/ACCA or CPI/ICAEW qualified
• Insolvency experience is essential for the role as you will need to be confident in managing asset valuations and realisations independently
• Ability to work to deadlines when reporting on case progress
• Experienced case handler