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Financial Restructuring Assistant Manager – MENA

Competitive business today is all about making intelligent, informed decisions. As a Assistant Manager based in EY GDS India, you will help our clients make that happen. You will be an important part of our diversely talented, highly experienced team and work at the forefront of high-profile transactions.

The opportunity

At the Financial restructuring team, we specialize in distressed M&A, value creation, financial restructuring, raising capital, capital structure advisory, and stakeholder management. We support businesses through periods of pressure or fundamental transformation. Our integrated team delivers tailored, pragmatic solutions, built on world-class strategic, operational, and financial insights. We aim to create long-term relationships with our clients and our teams work closely with them to understand their short and long-term goals - being there at every stage to identify problems, recommend, and implement solutions that deliver measurable results.

Your key responsibilities

As Assistant Manager in Financial Restructuring team, you will:

• Work in a professional environment alongside a vibrant and exciting team of experienced professionals on a variety of projects across a wide range of sectors.
• Contribute as a vital member of the team in executing turnaround and restructuring advisory projects. You’ll be focused on understanding the client’s business, profit drivers and trends, help clients mitigate risks and improve deal structures.
• Assist in business development activities including preparing presentations for client and internal pursuit meetings
• Create work products documenting the engagement procedures performed against objectives
• Project Management – be part of project teams comprising colleagues from across the EY Parthenon sub service lines
• Building Relationships - Strong working relationships with clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers
• Learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences.

Skills and attributes for success

• Excellent academic background, including a Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting
• Professional qualification such as CA / CFA or MBA (preferably from a premier institute)
• 5-6 years relevant working experience in corporate or investment banking, funding advisory, fundraising, capital structure optimization and/or restructuring, ideally in a Big 4 professional services firm or international consulting firm
• Excellent command of spoken and written English
• Excellent knowledge in MS Office packages, in particular MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong numerical / analytical ability, with corporate finance and financial accounting knowledge and experience
• Prior Experience in report writing (across capital structure review, financial analysis (including historical and forecast reviews), capital structure review, value creation such as cost optimization etc., restructuring options analysis, working capital analysis etc.
• Experience with conducting desktop market research, gathering data, deriving meaningful conclusions
• Experience with performing benchmarking reviews (across various parameters for capital and debt mix, working capital levers, revenue / product analysis etc.)
• Strong finance and accounting skills with knowledge of capital markets.
• Outstanding organizational skills, flexibility, and ability to work under tight deadlines
• Excellent project management, attention to detail, communication, problem solving, interpersonal and teaming skills
• Willingness to learn, proactivity and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas, while working in a multicultural corporate environment

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Knowledge of banking products, including Islamic Finance
• Client facing experience from a professional services background
• Knowledge of the MENA region and funding environment
• Fluency in Arabic (spoken and written) could be a bonus

What we offer

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
• An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 1400 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
• Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

EY is committed to being inclusive in all dimensions of diversity to ensure every employee is able to be and bring their authentic self to work, every day.

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