Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Business Recovery Services

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, we value every individual's role in shaping our future. We're looking for candidates who excel in their roles and embody our core behaviours of Trusted Leadership and Distinctive Outcomes. Trusted Leadership focuses on building trust, delivering sustained results, and showing courage and honesty. Distinctive Outcomes emphasize excellence, collaboration, and inclusiveness. We seek self-aware, collaborative individuals committed to continuous learning and delivering quality and integrity.

PwC’s Business Restructuring Services (BRS) team is currently the largest restructuring practice in the Middle East, with over 60 employees operating across various offices in the region. Our team helps organizations facing financial distress or insolvency with crisis recovery, administrative tasks, liquidation and insolvency proceedings. Whatever the solution, we help them manage road blocks until the job is done. We develop and implement realistic and pragmatic plans by applying restructuring and stakeholder management skills, functional knowledge, and proprietary assets and tools to support Executives in making difficult decisions and driving through change in a short timeframe. We help clients, among other things,to reduce balance sheet stress, generate cash and reduce costs or refinance to find the best source of capital to support their business objectives. Whatever the solution, we help them manage road blocks until the job is done.

The Role

As a Manager in our Business Restructuring Services team, your impact will be seen by:  

Day to day case management of administrations, liquidations and other corporate insolvency processes, taking responsibility from commencement to conclusion and ensuring proactive case progression

Involvement in pre-insolvency planning matters

Ensuring 100% compliance with statutory deadlines on cases

Liaison with and management of internal and external stakeholders, including communications with remote-based colleagues and dealing with external lawyers agents and key creditors.  Developing internal relationships with a range of colleagues both in the team and more widely

Contributing to the management of the team, including delegating tasks and training, coaching and supervising staff

Keeping up to date with insolvency and other relevant legislation across the GCC

Involvement in in-court restructuring schemes and other related tools

Identify risk issues and ensure these are dealt with and/or escalated

Maximizing net returns for clients and other stakeholders from financially distressed companies and individuals

Conducting investigations of financial information and identifying transactions that could lead to civil actions or penalties 

Day to day management of asset recoveries and litigation matters

Contributing to our collaborative team culture through mentoring and coaching of staff to deliver positive outcomes for our clients

Bringing your unique skills and interests to bear to improve outcomes for our clients, people and practice

The Requirements

Strong experience of working on corporate insolvency cases in addition to experience in restructuring (in-court restructuring schemes) 

Ability to show initiative, good attention to detail, be proactive, be able to identify risk issues and have excellent numeracy, communication and interpersonal skills

Experience of managing stakeholders, leading and developing teams, and ability to manage ambiguity and conflicting priorities

High impact communication in the written and verbal form with extensive experience of presenting to clearly communicate key conclusions for a range of stakeholders

Ability to leverage technology enabled and digital tools to achieve efficient delivery for our clients

Excellent organizational skills, having the ability to prioritize workload whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines

Arabic speakers are preferred but not essential

Proven IT skills in the Microsoft Office suite applications

You’ll be joining a team who welcome your outlook and knowledge, whilst providing you the opportunity to develop your skill set further within one of the world’s leading professional organizations.

You will need to be willing to travel if required. This could require working away from your base office location on a regular basis and regular overnight stays may be required. Where possible, we will take your preferences into account and strike a balance between meeting your career development/personal needs and those of the business and our clients.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Bankruptcy Analysis, Bankruptcy Code, Bankruptcy Management, Bankruptcy Restructuring, Business Liquidations, Cash Flow Analysis, Client Management, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Conducting Research, Corporate Development, Corporate Finance, Corporate Management, Creativity, Data Rooms, Debt Restructuring, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Modeling, Financial Review {+ 17 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

Job Posting End Date