We are looking for an ambitious individual to join the Leonard Curtis Jersey office to help expand our business recovery and insolvency practice in the Crown Dependencies.

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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 team of specialists deliver expertise across restructuring and insolvency, funding and law and we remain the largest independent restructuring firm in the UK.

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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.

With exciting plans for the future, we are seeking to appoint a qualified accountant or insolvency practitioner with an ability to develop new business.

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You will have experience working with clients in the international and Channel Islands markets, typically with a turnover of £1m and above, and have proven experience of dealing with decision makers.

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A key part of your role will be developing your presence in the Channel Islands, building relationships with key referrers, and supporting the wider team in business development activity. You will have the commercial acumen to hit the ground running and ideally have an established network of work referring contacts across the accountancy, Trust, legal and funding sectors.

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With team managerial responsibilities you will easily be able to build relationships within the highly successful Guernsey office, manage an agile working environment and recruit a team to ensure effective case load distribution. This role will also involve working with colleagues across the Leonard Curtis UK network. You will report directly to the board and be responsible for operational and financial targets.

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We are open to applicants from established managerial backgrounds or those looking to take the next step in their career. You must have experience in the areas as above and have an appetite to develop new business across the Channel Islands and further afield.

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Residential status

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Successful candidates must possess the relevant permissions to live and work in Jersey and be ideally of ‘Entitled’ or ‘Entitled for Work’ residential status

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Experience

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The successful candidate must be a qualified-by-experience Insolvency Practitioner, ideally a qualified Accountant and / or formally trained Insolvency Practitioner having for example passed the JIEB or an equivalent.

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The ideal candidate will have worked in one of the top 10 or comparable Insolvency Practices for the majority of their career. Their typical clients will have had a turnover of between £1 million to £80 million.

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We specifically require someone with experience of dealing with:

• All types of insolvency
• Core advisory assignments
• Innovative turnaround solutions
• Knowledge of the offshore market
• Producing IBRs and Option Reviews
• Proven successful outcomes in large administrations and / or schemes of arrangement
• Contacts with Banks, ABLs and corporate service providers
• A professional network particularly accountants and lawyers

‍Skills required

• An energetic and ambitious individual with the ability to develop their own network within the Leonard Curtis framework in the Channel Islands
• Highly personable
• Proven work winning and assignment management skills
• The ability to lead, recruit and train staff

What we will give you

• 27 days holiday +statutory public holidays
• Additional 5% companycontribution towards a pension
• Private healthinsurance cover for yourself
• Flexible benefit andwell-being schemes
• Enhanced sick payscheme
• Enhanced familyfriendly policies, including enhanced maternity pay
• 36.25 hour working week
• Birthday leave
• 2 giving back days per year
• Car allowance

Learning and Development

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.

Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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