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Job Description
We’re looking for a highly experienced, work winning insolvency professional to lead multiple formal appointments and drive successful outcomes for clients. In this role, you’ll support businesses facing financial and liquidity challenges, develop tailored restructuring and insolvency strategies, and manage stakeholder relationships at all levels. You’ll work closely with senior directors on a range of complex workstreams — including cross‑border cases — and integrate with wider service lines across the business.<br>You’ll also play a key role in business development, contributing to new tenders, building strong referral relationships, and preparing compelling client proposals. This is an opportunity to take ownership of diverse cases, strengthen your leadership profile, and help shape the continued growth of the firm.
Job Requirements
<ul><li>A well established and &nbsp;appointment taking qualified Insolvency Practitioner</li><li>Extensive experience within an insolvency and restructuring team, supported by a relevant appointment‑taking qualification, and a strong ambition to continue building a trusted network of referrers</li><li>Ability to lead and manage an assignment ensuring effective deliverables with minimal supervision whilst mentoring and motivating fellow team members</li><li>Experience of advising and working with operational and finance teams within distressed and loss-making entities and their other advisors</li><li>The desire and hunger to promote your own career to the next level through existing and future relationships with full support at board level</li><li>Previous experience of being responsible for ensuring quality control, managing recoveries, billings, career development and resource management</li><li>An entrepreneurial and ambitious mindset in your approach</li><li>Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with diverse and complex stakeholder groups</li></ul><strong>Desirable Role Requirements&nbsp;</strong><br><ul><li>A proven track record of securing and delivering significant assignments independently</li><li>Sector‑specific expertise in relevant industries</li><li>ACA/ACCA qualifications are beneficial but not essential</li><li>Experience working on cross‑border insolvency cases</li><li>Exposure to delivering Independent Business Reviews (IBRs), including short‑term cash‑flow modelling</li><li>Experience preparing and assessing long‑term financial forecasts, options reviews, and exit strategies for key stakeholders</li></ul>
Job Responsibilities
<ul><li>Act as lead appointee on multiple formal insolvency cases, ensuring successful outcomes.</li><li>Support businesses facing liquidity challenges and wider financial difficulties.</li><li>Develop, manage, and implement tailored restructuring and insolvency strategies.</li><li>Manage stakeholder relationships, including clients, employees, agents, and solicitors.</li><li>Work with senior directors across key service lines, managing multiple (including cross‑border) workstreams.</li><li>Oversee AMA management from initial engagement through to completion.</li><li>Collaborate with other service lines, including formal restructuring and TTP arrangements.</li><li>Lead new business tenders across various referral sources.</li><li>Carry out business development activities, promoting services and preparing client proposals to secure new mandates.</li></ul>
Job Benefits
<ul style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><li style=" font-weight: 400;">Salary aligned with your skills and expertise</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">Car allowance</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">27 days holiday allowance plus statutory public holidays</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">Flexible benefit and well-being schemes</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">Birthday leave</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">2 giving back days per year. We encourage our team to support the wider community by providing paid leave to work with local charities or good causes</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">A hard working, fun and professional working environment</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">Enhanced family friendly policies, including enhanced Maternity pay</li><li style=" font-weight: 400;">36.25 hour working week</li></ul><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><br></p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;">Leonard Curtis is a market leading professional services provider operating across the UK and Channel Islands. Since our formation we’ve supported business owners and advisors by listening and offering practical solutions and tailored advice. Our expert team of specialists deliver positive strategic advice across restructuring and insolvency, funding and law across 30 offices and we remain the largest independent restructuring firm in the UK. A career with Leonard Curtis will open the door to varied career pathways.</p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;">We have built an environment that empowers you to express yourself to have confidence in who you are and what you’re capable of and develop the career you want.</p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><br></p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><strong style=" font-weight: 600;">Learning and Development</strong></p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><br></p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;">Leonard Curtis has a wealth of resources available to help you develop your career from the moment you join. Activities range from on-line learning modules to external training and qualifications.</p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><br></p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><strong style=" font-weight: 600;">Diversity and Inclusion</strong></p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><br></p><p style=" font-weight: 400; text-align: start;">Diversity is a core business imperative of the Group. We are an equal opportunities employer which promotes inclusiveness and always employ the best professional for the job. Having a diverse workforce allows the Group to draw upon a range of different ideas and experiences which supports our business’s growth and creates an environment where everyone has an equal opportunity for success.</p>
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Stage 1

All businesses encounter health problems. These may be short term and through no fault of the directors, they may result from under investment or over ambitious expansion. These ailments aren’t always critical. They might be just a blip. But leaving them unchecked is a risky business. The sooner you speak to us, the more we can do to improve your situation. We fully recognise that business difficulties arise from a broad range of factors which are sometimes outside of the directors/business owners control.

Stage 2

All businesses encounter health problems. These may be short term and through no fault of the directors, they may result from under investment or over ambitious expansion. These ailments aren’t always critical. They might be just a blip. But leaving them unchecked is a risky business. The sooner you speak to us, the more we can do to improve your situation. We fully recognise that business difficulties arise from a broad range of factors which are sometimes outside of the directors/business owners control.

Stage 3

All businesses encounter health problems. These may be short term and through no fault of the directors, they may result from under investment or over ambitious expansion. These ailments aren’t always critical. They might be just a blip. But leaving them unchecked is a risky business. The sooner you speak to us, the more we can do to improve your situation. We fully recognise that business difficulties arise from a broad range of factors which are sometimes outside of the directors/business owners control.