Director, Turnaround & Restructuring

Practice Overview

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

An underperforming or distressed company can often face tight liquidity constraints, unprofitable business units, and adverse industry conditions. Ankura advisors partner with senior management to assess the situation and quickly develop and implement a strategic plan that addresses multiple aspects of the business and the restructuring. Ankura’s team provides strategic and financial advice to companies, boards, and investors. Our consultants bring critical problem‑solving skills to every engagement, thereby delivering innovative and practical solutions that can be executed in today’s marketplace.

With a consistent process‑driven approach aimed to stabilize, rehabilitate, and restructure the situation, Ankura experts bring a level of stability to unstable situations, allowing for successful resolutions focused on creating value and maximizing recoveries among stakeholders. Our firm specializes in the following company advisory services:

• ​In‑court and out‑of‑court restructuring advisory
• ​Liquidity management
• ​Financial modeling and forecasting
• ​Operational improvement
• ​Strategic business plan development
• ​Management of communications with key stakeholders, including lenders, boards of directors, employees, investors, and creditor constituencies
• ​Customer and vendor management
• ​Negotiation and dispute resolution
• ​Debt and capital restructuring
• ​Expert witness testimony
• ​Distressed and/or special situation M&A advisory
• ​Post‑transaction business stabilization

We are currently recruiting a Director to join our Turnaround & Restructuring (T&R) team. This role could be located in New York, Dallas, or Chicago with potential for other locations.

• Critique and provide guidance on complex analyses
• Independently identify patterns in complex data and drive hypotheses
• Independently develop understanding of analytic tools including and outside of Excel
• Work directly with Client to obtain relevant data
• Independently disaggregate complex problems into simpler parts
• Actively challenges assumptions and hypotheses
• Understands complex corporate finance and accounting concepts
• Analyzes risks to existing or proposed covenant packages
• Demonstrates clear understanding of different credit products
• Understands various restructuring concepts informed by engagement experience and able to clearly articulate those views to others
• Drives team to develop an understanding of analytic tools including and outside of Excel
• Has an experienced/informed view on how to approach building certain common Excel based analyses (cash flow forecast, financial statement model)
• Understands key elements of bankruptcy case management
• Helps to set priorities across multiple work streams
• Coordinates with team on schedules to meet agreed upon deadlines
• Identifies key milestones and manages accordingly
• Directly manages work of Associates and Senior Associates
• Lays out an effective approach to a presentation with guidance from more senior teammates
• Prepares full decks and presents sections of a report both internally and to clients
• Presents effectively to C Suite level clients and other professionals related to basic and moderately complex analyses/issues
• Handles client interactions at multiple levels
• Provides guidance and feedback to early career professionals
• Maintains constant communications with senior professionals to ensure coordination of activities and manage expectations

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with a top tier management consulting firm
• An undergraduate degree from a top academic institution with a strong GPA>
• Advanced degree(s) and applicable professional certification(s) are preferred (CFA, CIRA, CPA)
• Restructuring experience preferred and/or relevant financial consulting experience including M&A transaction advisory and/or investment banking
• Ability and willingness to undertake extensive travel is required
• Willingness to work at times, long hours during the week and on weekends due to client demands may be necessary
• Experience with analytical tools and financial analyses that show a proper understanding of competing needs (timing,…