Optimization - Financial Restructuring

The opportunity

Our Financial Restructuring team advises companies, lenders, investors and other stakeholders in stressed or distressed situations, helping evaluate options, stabilize liquidity and develop and implement restructuring solutions. As a manager, you will join a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment and manage engagement or major workstreams, develop client relationships, controls quality and risk, and lead multidisciplinary teams.

Your key responsibilities

• Define scope and approach with senior leaders, manage delivery, budgets and risks, and provide regular, decision-useful communication to clients.
• Analyze liquidity, cash flow, debt capacity and stakeholder positions
• Prepare or review short-term cash-flow forecasts, options analysis and restructuring plans
• Support independent business reviews, contingency planning and negotiations
• Identify key risks, sensitivities and information gaps
• Coordinate stakeholders and produce clear reports for decision making
• Manage engagement economics, resourcing, quality and risk requirements within agreed parameters
• Build trusted client relationships and contribute to proposals, market activity and the development of new solutions
• Coach team members, provide timely feedback and support an inclusive, high-performance culture

Skills and attributes for success

• Advanced capability in strong cashflow, financial and commercial analysis
• Advanced capability in understanding distress, debt and restructuring concepts
• Advanced capability in sound judgement, discretion and stakeholder sensitivity
• Advanced capability in clear report writing and negotiation support
• Advanced capability in ability to work accurately under significant time pressure
• Strong written and verbal communication in English
• Ability to manage priorities, work collaboratively and exercise sound professional judgement
• Commitment to integrity, confidentiality, quality and continuous learning

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A recognized bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline; relevant professional or postgraduate qualification is preferred.
• Minimum of 5-7 years’ relevant experience, including experience leading project workstreams or engagements.
• Relevant experience and technical exposure aligned to the responsibilities described above.
• Eligibility to work in the hiring location and willingness to travel when engagement needs require.

Ideally, you will also have

• Restructuring, insolvency, banking, audit or transaction advisory experience
• Professional accounting or restructuring qualification/progress
• Exposure to independent business reviews, formal insolvency or distressed M&A

What we look for

We are looking for a manager who combines analytical rigour, commercial awareness and a practical client-service mindset. You should be able to work constructively with diverse teams, communicate with clarity and convert analysis into actions that support better decisions and sustainable outcomes.

About EY-Parthenon

EY-Parthenon brings together strategy, transactions and transformation capabilities to help clients address complex business questions and realize value. This draft should be supplemented with the current approved EY Malaysia employer proposition and recruitment statements before external publication.